quickbooks?

[JaredWoodcock]

What kind of book keeping programs do other small farmers use? Quick books is the only one I know of and before I buy it I thought I might ask around. I need to make the schedule F tax prep simple and easy.

 

Jared

[dominiquer60]

I use composition notebooks 🙂 a different color for each business and third that lives in my truck recording mileage, gas purchases and repairs. I don’t know if I have a good tax lady, or I’m just used to organizing my info just enough, but taxes cease to intimidate me with a paper system.

[Does’ Leap]

I use Quickbooks and I like it a lot.  It can be frustrating b/c you need to be accurate to the penny.  I gave up balancing my checkbook through the program (I do that by hand) and only use the program to for invoicing, tracking expenses, and recording payments.  My wife does our taxes on Turbo Tax with all the info generated by QB.

George

[Anonymous]

Quick books is a great program.  We have used it since 1997 .  Easy to use and helps you keep good financial records. There a number of options depending on your business needs.

[Anthony]

If you just need simple book keeping, check out Gnucash http://www.gnucash.org .  It is totally free and I have an easier time with it for what I need than quickbooks.  It has many accounting and business features as well, though not as many as quickbooks.

[JaredWoodcock]

Thanks I always use notebooks too but now Im realizing that I have so much data that I would like to keep track of and be able to move around for my different parts of the business that a computer would make things a lot easier. I will still have notebooks but now Im hoping I can manipulate the info.

 

thanks for the info everybody

 

Jared

[Eli]

When we were dairying we used a program from red wing software it was farm specific. And could track things for Busness management as well as taxes. Eli

[near horse]

As I sit here with paper records/receipts all over the place and try to read some of my mileage numbers that were scrawled with a half- frozen pen in the pickup I might suggest looking at some of these sites for ideas and downloads.  Quicken and Quickbooks are so general and designed for “other” businesses (rentals for one thing) tha I gave up and started searching elsewhere.

Here’s a whole list of record keeping software (free – I’m pretty sure)http://agebb.missouri.edu/download/index.htm

Also a free Excel sheet already setup

http://agebb.missouri.edu/mgt/mofar/  (scroll down and click on the highlighted Farm Record Book in Excel to check it out)

Farm Record Book in Excel
Download a free Farm Record Book in Excel. For producers comfortable with basic Excel, this spreadsheet farm record book offers the ability to: track income and expenses, cash flow summary, expenses by vendor, receipts by buyer, enterprise receipt & expenses, and checking account balances. For questions contact Whitney Wiegel, MU Extension Ag Business Specialist at: (660) 584-3658, WiegelW@missouri.edu.

 

 

[j.l.holt]

I carried a large yellow envelope in the glove of the truck..Stuck all paper work in there. At the end of the month, added up everything and wrote it on the out side. Sealed them in to not lose.. If  it was written in the side,,I had a receipt in side.   Wrote the month on it and all the info was together for tax time.

[near horse]

Tried to edit my previous post but no luck ….. my first link

Here’s a whole list of record keeping software (free – I’m pretty sure)http://agebb.missouri.edu/download/index.htm

was to a page with MOSTLY ancient spreadsheets that I couldn’t get to work. I think some were generated with a 286 and Windows 3.1 —–I apologize but the farm record book does work and might give one an idea of how to set up a record using Excel.

 

Sorry.

 

 

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