I thought I had a good plan on keeping my books straight at the start of the year. Well...I was WRONG!!!! They where so mixed up it was hard to really see what was going on so a few months before the end of last year (2011) I was working on finding a new way and was going to build my own books like I did for that year but...add a few things to them to make it work better.
Long story short...that was not going to work either...it would either take way to much of my time to do...and or not have the info I need WHEN I need it.
So....i started to see what was out on the market and at first...was looking at scrap yard programs...none of them seem to fit what I wanted. Yea they followed the scrap...but I want to follow both scrap, money and the time spent on each things to make sure I keep things good on my pockets.
Quickbooks....yea..quickbooks.
I use the inventory to track my scrap and what I paid for it and a running cost per pound.
Time charts to keep logs of all of that and what was over all done per that day using the jobs part of quickbooks
P&L's are very easy to read and has alot of info on one page...you can really see whats going on fast.
I love the accounting system that will help keep track of whats in your bank, cash box, credit cards and loans.
And so many other things....so if you had not had time to look into quickbooks you may want to..I think it was worth it and very helpful
Just tossed a few lines and hope it will be of help to another person.
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