How do you know that your business is going in the right direction?

You have to keep score. And one of the best ways to do that is to use financial software.

If you are a spreadsheet fanatic like my bean-counting mom (she’s a CPA and bankruptcy analyst), you may like to just use Excel or Open Office. But they have severe limitations for out of the box usability for business finances.

Instead we both recommend you go with Intuit’s Quicken Home and Business Financial Software, or Quickbooks.

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