| Friday, 26 February 2010 02:06 |
Once upon a time, a company called State of the Art made a name for itself by enlisting CPAs to sell its accounting software package, MAS 90. That package, of course, remains on the market after it made its way into the Sage family via acquisition. But CPAs exited the reselling business or were shown the door by Sage and the other tool in the Sage arsenal, Peachtree, lost out to the love of QuickBooks by accountants. Or rather, it lost out to the love of QB by clients, with many accountants still seeing the Intuit product as impure.
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Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 10 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant.
About the Author: Bob Scott has been informing and entertaining the mid-market financial software community with his email newsletters for 10 years. And he has been covering this market through print publications for 18 years, first as technology editor of Accounting Today and then as the Editor of Accounting Technology from 1997 through 2009. He has covered the traditional tax and accounting profession during the same time and continues to address that as executive editor of the Progressive Accountant. |