Has anyone experience in running VT/Quickbooks (I'm looking into buying VT or Quickbooks) with Apple Mac Pro. I have a normal desktop PC running on windows but I bought an Apple Mac Pro laptop this year thinking I could use it for doing bookkeeping/accounts and I now have a sinking feeling that most of the accounts packages out there are not compatible with Mac so I may be better of using my PC?
You would probably be able to get a windows emulator to run within the MAC environment but thats still no guarantee that VT would play along.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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Thanks Shaun. That's what I thought. Oh well I guess I won't be able to claim the expense of buying the Mac Pro against the business and will have to revert to using a desktop until I can afford to buy a replacement laptop.
There is an interesting point burried there in your answer.
If we purchase something wholly. necessarily and exclusively for the business but after puchase such proves unfit for purpose that does not mean that the purchase was not for the busienss.
How many professional accountants and bookkeepers do you think have "toys" purchased throough the business as the next time saving gizzmo that got used once and then never used again? (you know who I'm talking about all of you with tablet PC's, lol just joshin)
Dioes that then fall to the proprietor rather than being an acquisition by the business?
The laptop to my mind, even if going forward was only of use as a paperweight was a legitimate purchase by the business due to the intent of such purpose and whilst it may not process the accounting software that you need I am sure that you will be using it for correspondence, word processing, spreadsheets, etc. All of which is business use.
I would go with capitalise, depreciate and AIA and not have an issue with it.
kind regards,
Shaun.
-- Edited by Shamus on Saturday 3rd of August 2013 11:59:38 AM
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I have a feeling that it gets more complicated having to run a virtual parallel of some sort in order to use Mac with these programmes which means I will probably be better off using my desktop PC for the bookkeeping business instead of the Mac Pro laptop. It's a pain really because I won't be able to claim the laptop as a expense against the business now. I could try selling the Mac and then buying another laptop.
Shaun, I think I'm going to have to employ you as my full time accounting guru! Your'e a wizard. Yes, I did think I could take it to client's using spreadsheets and word processing so thanks for the confirmation.
