![]() shows how to work with sales and inventories of raised farm production.but only in the QuickBooks desktop editions.) ![]() ( The QuickBooks Farm Accounting Cookbook™, Volume II: Raised Farm Production Inventories, Sales, and More. The inventory system, for example, works differently enough compared to the desktop editions, that using it to keep track of farm production inventories (raised grains and produce raised livestock) is very difficult in QuickBooks Online. But several aspects of it cannot be as easily "bent to the purpose" of more advanced goals of cash basis agricultural accounting. If all you want to do is keep track of income and expenses for income tax purposes-which will be true for many people who read this-then QuickBooks Online will do the job, and has the advantage that you can access it anywhere you have an Internet connection. If there is any agreement among QuickBooks professionals, it is that right now QuickBooks Online is often a good fit for service businesses (florist, small mechanic shop, bakery, etc.) and for many businesses with very simple accounting needs, but a poor fit for construction and manufacturing businesses (agriculture is essentially a manufacturing business) or any business which needs strong reporting capabilities.įor agriculture, I am even less of a fan of QuickBooks Online than for small businesses in general. The choice is a matter of personal preference and of choosing the QuickBooks product that is most appropriate for your needs. But others are just as sure of their preference for QuickBooks Online. ![]() ![]() One CPA, after making a serious effort to set up and support QBO for a few of his clients, had a long list of complaints and now says "I won't touch QuickBooks Online with a 100-foot pole!" Obviously, he is a fan of the desktop editions. In general, they either love it or hate it there doesn't tend to be a lot of "middle ground" in how people feel about QuickBooks Online. A lot of CPAs and other QuickBooks professionals-people who are intimately familiar with the features, capabilities, and warts of both QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks desktop editions-share the same feeling. Let me say this up front: I am not yet a fan of QuickBooks Online, and I have a lot of company in that opinion. ![]()
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