After spending some time looking this past week, I can honestly say that I never thought it would become so difficult to purchase an accounting package...and I'm not just picking on Intuit.  I expect that level of difficulty with a large system for a large operation....but not for a small one.  The products, sales process and "everything is ala carte" is so over-engineered these days it has become ridiculous.

And to think we used to run fairly large organizations with basic g/l packages -- where debits and credits were the focus and a set of financial statements were the end goal.  Excel is looking better and better all the time.....otherwise, I'm going back to ledger cards.

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