I’ll admit it, I’m a geek and wanted the latest and greatest. Do I have a need for it? Not usually, however, I upgrade most of my software as soon as an update comes out with 2 main exceptions, Quicken and QuickBooks. Upgrades for both seem to do very little for me. I had to upgrade QuickBooks in April because it didn’t function properly in Tiger.
Today I went to my accountant and brought along my data file exported from QuickBooks Pro 2005 for Mac to the Windows format. My accountant hasn’t updated his QuickBooks Accountant edition from 2004, but luckily he had no trouble reading my data file. Now if I had upgraded to QuickBooks Pro 2006 would I have had problems? Possibly and it would have been much harder for my accountant to do my taxes.
Lesson learned, don’t upgrade software if you have to be compatible with someone else.
When we were talking, he really doesn’t see what else an accounting package can do. He did make some good points and I can’t think of what I’d want it to do either.
I’ll keep upgrading most of my other software just because I’m a geek.