Long time reader (very long - read for over a year) but new poster. I trained as a chartered accountant in practise (ie) accountancy firm) but am jumping ship to industry. Although I have 3 years of accounting training dealing with accounts/audits and a bit of tax I have limited experience of sage and therefore may be asking a lot of questions on it! I also hope to contribute on the more general/technical accounting and tax queries.
Personally not a big Sage fan so appologies in advance if you don't get replies from me on those questions. (I do answer the occassional Sage query but generally only where the poster is asking an accounting question and assumes that accounting and Sage are the same thing! From your history I'm thinking that you won't be asking those sort of questions).
good to have you on board,
all the best,
Shaun.
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I also think I'm not a SAGE fan. I've used Quickbooks before and found it so much better in terms of pulling data quickly and effictbely onto excel. The principal downside was that the debtors/creditors ledger for individual customer balances aren't well formatted.
What do you think of QB? Is it worth the jump from SAGE?
Well QB's in my opinion is better than Sage! I am a QB fan as they all know on here and I find it easy to use. I also use Sage instants and although its okay I don't like it as much to be honest. Of course there are others on here that swear by sage.
I'm a VT bod just picking up Quickbooks (to add a string to my bow, not replace one).
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I suppose for me it was "input", my experience from practise was that it was always reactive to what has happened and felt I wanted to be involved in making things happen!
Can I welcome you too? I don't post often anymore, as I just don't have enough hours in a day to do everything. I am not a Sage fan either. I use lot of different software depending on various client requirements et.....
I started in practice, went into industry, and now back into practice, but try to give clients a proactive service, rather than reactive as you mention. It can be difficult, and I have had to reeducate clients who a have come from other Accountants.
Its interesting to here that you started in practise, got some commercial experience in industry and moved back. Maybe I will end up doing that? At the moment Im trying to instill some practise based experience in the industry Im working in.
I'm one of those who've been doing it the other way around.
Started in industry (banking and high finance), tried to instil industry level professionalism into small businesses but am slowly finding more and more of my work back in industry (I figure that I never really escaped, they just gave me a prolonged holiday, lol).
looks as though I'm the mirror image of yourself and Frauke.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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Even though, like Frauke, I don't post here as often as I would like I too would like to welcome you to the forum and my welcome comes from a fan of Sage so feel free to ask any Sage related questions that you have and I'll try to make time to answer them
I don't post often anymore, as I just don't have enough hours in a day to do everything. I am not a Sage fan either. I use lot of different software depending on various client requirements et.....
