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you might try creating a “new” company in Peachtree, bring your balances forward for 01-Jan-2019 and see if it works
I thought of that initially, but since I had the same problem with a test company I had set up years ago (and thus was barely used, containing few entries) I didn’t explore that idea. However, last night I decided to give it a try, and when I tried to import the job list from the broken company the import choked, noting that it couldn’t find a certain file (I forget the name). I looked in the company folder and verified that the file wasn’t there, so I opened one of the daily backups from late last year, copied the file from there to the current company folder, and *voila* it worked!
I think I’ll try to run both Peachtree and Wave side-by-side for awhile to see if I want to make the transition badly enough to get used to Wave, but it’s nice to have the familiar user interface available again.
Thanks, Shelby!
- Posted by: A Harris
I keep a cash ledger and keep up with my invoices in files folders “Due” & “PAID” and everything else goes into a box until it is time to load TurboTax Home and Office and enter the totals.
I used DacEasyLite accounting and was very happy with it until the millennium bug ended its use.
They are still somewhere, just have not tracked it down exactly.
I do something similar to that, with the aid of Excel for addition, subtraction, and sorting entries by date. 2003 is the best version of Excel; too many bells and whistles on the later ones. Office 2003 is about $20 on E-bay, and will run on Windows 7. Don’t know about later OS’s.
It’s even possible to use Excel to run a complete set of double-entry books. The theory behind double-entry bookkeeping isn’t very complex, although software vendors hope that it remains a mystery to most people.
Quickbooks runs a double-entry system in the background, to my knowledge. In all probability other brands of accounting software do that as well.
@jim-frame glad my idea worked or gave clue to what might be wrong.
SHG
I’m using Wave too, but I’ve only used it for invoicing and payroll purposes. I haven’t set up expense accounts within the software, but i’ve been planning to do that for a while. It has worked well for me. Running s a small service business makes it fairly easy to keep track of expenses by making some quick notes, but it’s not a good way to operate.
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