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Pros

My family's business used this software to do their accounting. Although our accountant have used multiple tax software programs in the past, they were very happy with this software. Mind you, they are total Luddites when it comes to software, so they found this to be very easy and helpful to use.

Cons

The only small aspect of this, is there are a lot of great accounting software programs out there, and this one is not the cheapest each year. However, if you do not mind the cost, and realize this will save you quite a bit of money in the long run, this the training and customer support is totally for you!

An excellent accounting system for your small business

Preparing financial statements, tax preparation, tax estimate calculations, and cash flow analysis.

Pros

The software is easy to use and is an excellent accounting solution for your small business. I am a practicing CPA and I frequently see small business owners with accounting records that are inadequate or unorganized for necessary business tasks such as tracking your financial position (balance sheets and profit and loss statements) and preparing annual tax returns. Big E-Z Books will help you manage your business and coordinate with your CPA to prepare and plan for taxes. I highly recommend this product if you are looking to improve your financial record keeping.

Cons

This software is optimal for small companies without large accounting staff.

Amazing Value

Our experience has been fabulous and I highly recommend this product for your small organization. This is an amazing value!

Pros

This is simple easy to use accounting software for a small organization. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] offers excellent support and is often able to help with a Problem in minutes, service like you will experience no where else!

Cons

The only drawback we have found is the budget set up doesn’t match how we want to set up and use the budget function. (Our activities are mostly unique so we don’t want to budget by month but instead use annual numbers and see a YTD total compared to the annual budget number.)

Small Church use

We purchased the software to help a small church that we pastor. I had seen this software used by my wife in a small non-profit thrift store. I was impressed with the graphics and charts that it produced. And because it was based on Excel I was able to help her with it. So we purchased the new version for the church, but found that it was now a stand-alone software package and was not excel based. It seemed very difficult to work with and cumbersome. After several attempts to get support we decided to go back to my "homemade" excel spreadsheet to do our church finances with. While I miss the nice charts and graphs, the day to day entry and organization of the software seemed cumbersome and hard to use. It will probably work fine for a larger organization, but for our small church it was not useful.

Pros

charts and graphs

Cons

seemed hard to work with and not flexible

Less is More for Ease of Use

We first began using Big EZ Bookkeeping for our autistic son's Irrevocable Special Needs Trust Fund about three years ago. We needed a bookkeeping program that wasn't too complicated but was up to helping us sort out the intricacies of income and expenditures, assets and liabilities for both legal record keeping and tax purposes. We specifically needed something we could customize to fit some fairly unique categories! We have found Big EZ extremely user friendly. Bank reconciliations are done in a snap. We can divide his trust's income and expenditures across not only categories, but sub categories and still keep a running total. And the automatic balance sheet shows us the assets and liabilities quarterly and annually. We are able to print out all the documents we need easily. The personalized customer service has been invaluable for us. Highly recommended.

Pros

Super easy to use. Great customer service. Customizable to fit our needs.

Cons

Have to buy it every year, but the upgrades are worth it, so I don't mind.