There are a multitude of options for handling your accounting, time, and billing. Which one is best?

The accounting software matters.

However, it’s not the most important thing.

The people are more important.

• Who’s going to handle the books?
• Who’s going to do the day-to-day management of inbound invoices, payables, and receivables?
• Who’s going to deal with monthly reports?
• Who’s going to do the tax returns?

The accounting software is a trivial expense. The people are a huge expense.

The accounting software can be a small pain in your ass. The people doing the accounting can be a HUGE pain in your ass.

Focus on the people, and let the software take care of itself.

We use QuickBooks for most of our accounting. It’s kind of a pain in the ass.

But it’s what the people we use want to use.

And the people are WONDERFUL. They’re not even a tiny pain in the ass. Our bookkeeping/accounting people are AWESOME.

So why do we use QuickBooks? Because it’s what the people want us to use.

Figure out the people part first, and listen to them when it comes to the software.