QuickBooks 2006 Pro Mac Questions?

Its been neglected once again. Three years running they've made a few superficial updates, with the exception of moving to the Windows toolbar menu, added a few new reports and they call it a new version. It still can't handle its own payroll and I can only wonder if the double-clicking inside many reports is fixed (double-clicking once can cause a total lockout of double-clicking a second time when inside many of the reports).

I can't find anything concrete except where TurboTax says it can import from Quickbooks 2004 and higher. I've looked several times on both websites and cannot find anything that specifies its a Windows-only function for Quickbooks.

I don't see it on the short list of very few changes in 2006. They probably consider it a payroll function and since QB Mac still can't do payroll on its own time tracking probably wasn't a priority.

Pfft. Mac 2005 and 2006 have only just caught up with Pro 99, minus payroll. Wait another 3 years to get on par with the 2005 Pro Windows version.

I've never used TurboTax. What kind of file does it look for when you tell it to import? Are you using a current version of the software?

I am using Quicken 2005 for Mac. The 2006 version is reportedly FULL of bugs. I keep current with TurboTax and is about the only reason I guess I stay with Intuit. Turbotax will automatically look at my Quicken file for my business, with its tax assigned expenses and income, and will import my home files account with the stock transactions. When I found out that QB would not work like that and had trouble connecting to banks and downloading info, I just kept using Quicken for tracking expenses and QB for invoicing and scheduling invoicing, tracking income, and figuring my time for invoices [which I enter manually from another program ].

I was extremely excited at first to move to QB until I found all the limitations and that it couldn't export [I'll have to check that again when I do my taxes next year - I now forget if my major problem was not being able to import expenses from the bank or not export to Ttax.].

Their lack of a Mac Market becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. You put less money and time into the products for that side of the world, and you put out inefficient products with bugs, and we have less reason to buy it.

So sad. Someone ought to be able to make money with a 20 million potential market. Maybe Apple will come up with a blow away program. I'd switch.

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Okay, I checked Turbotax 2004 and the problem is it cannot import QB files. QB mac exports to IIF files but Ttax imports Quicken and QXF files [may have the extension slightly wrong]. Anyway QB doesn't export to that format. So it will not do me any good to import my expenses data from bank statements and credit cards into QB. The program is lame, in the literal sense. It is broken. Jeff

I heard the next generation IPod will do accounting.

I assume in addition to downloading transactions you can also make payments online?

Do these feature work well?

Thanks,

Andrew