http://www.book-keeping.com en-gb book-keeping.com 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z book-keeping.com http://www.book-keeping.com/page2.htm#105047 Since I reviewed ClearBooks I get a weekly email telling me among other things that Ive made no sales and spent no money and then purports to tell me my profit before tax. Except of course I havent notdone anything of the sort I just havent processed any more transactions. The illusion that drives the thinking behind the email is that bookkeeping is done in a realtime way with every area constantly up to date.Apart from access to the online bank statement small business finance reporting is rarely realtime. In reality the various components bank sales expenses etc are pushed along day to day and then brought to some sort of conclusion at the end of the month or quarter once the payroll and other monthly information is in. There may be daily reports of sales or a check of the bank statement if things are tight but if a business owner needs more than this realtime then they are probably in the wrong business.Reporting needs controls like bank recs and its often highly contextsensitiv... 2011-10-20 08:11:44 http://www.book-keeping.com/page2.htm#104279 One of the things that was highlighted by the eulogies being paid to Steve Jobs was how far we have moved away from the dominance of Windows software. Not so long ago around the time that the majority of SMEs made their choices of the accounting software they use now it would have been almost unthinkable to have used anything other than Windows as a platform. Even offices that may have had 10 Macs with their cultlike owners doing all that design and creative stuff would still have a solitary PC in the corner which was strictly for the bookkeeper.It would most likely be Sage or maybe TAS Books that was in use or later it could have been QuickBooks. If you insisted on trying to do the bookkeeping on a Mac you were probably using MYOB. If you had the patience of Job no pun intended you could try to run a Windows emulator on a Mac but it was so painful youd probably soon have given up and have the work done elsewhere relying on faxes and the post. It all sounds so quaint now. This is how... 2011-10-9 21:32:02