Last week I wrote about Office Accounting Express 2008, Microsoft’s free offering for small business accounting, however if you want to give the industry leader in this category a try take a look at QuickBooks Simple Start Free Edition 2009. The name says it all here. This offering is designed to get you started (/hooked) using the QuickBooks product. This...

For people who run small businesses (or manage their personal finances like a business), I have written several times about GNUCash, but if it doesn’t quite work for you then another option you might want to consider is Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008. Much like all of Microsoft’s Express offerings, Office Accounting Express is completely...