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nasser_1st
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Posted: 13 Aug 2011 at 16:25 \| IP Logged

Hi,

After 7 years of corporate accounting experience, I am planning on starting a small accounting firm providing the following services to small medium sized companies: income statement preperation, bookeeping and tax preperation.

When performing bookeeping services for clients, do we need to install quickbooks with mutli accounts for each client? or are there any bookeeping software designed particularly for Accounting Firms?

Any advices of software and business start up is much appriciated!

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Posted: 03 May 2012 at 21:28 \| IP Logged

In the USA, the most popular and commonly used accounting software by clients would be QuickBooks. I would recommend signing up as a ProAdvisor so you can help clients purchase QB at a 25%+ discount.

The downside is you need to have the same version of QB as the client if you're going to do QB for them. I suppose, used licenses can be pretty cheap. Once you own a license you can use it for as many clients as you want.

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Posted: 04 May 2012 at 23:02 \| IP Logged

nasser_1st wrote:

Hi,

When performing bookeeping services for clients, do we need to install quickbooks with mutli accounts for each client? or are there any bookeeping software designed particularly for Accounting Firms?

Any advices of software and business start up is much appriciated!

There's a version of QB that is specifically for Accountants. That's the one you need to purchase. I also suggest checking Ebay if you want to get software on the cheaper side. I purchased my QB software on Ebay brand new for way cheaper than Intuit wants to charge. It is highway robbery with them. If you want all those other benefits they offer, than by all means sign up with them.

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Posted: 02 Nov 2016 at 22:00 \| IP Logged

To start an accounting firm business you need to decide and verify what services you will really cater for them. Make an accounting strategy and plan the processes of your firm. Market your accounting practices so that people can see it and think that this firm is good for us. For the road, I agree to cflas08. There a specific QB for accountants.

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Yazmin Barajas
Offshore Business Processing Accounting Solutions(Website)

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