Iris personal tax software If you are going to produce meaningful and worthwhile software reviews then it is no good just visiting the software house and watching an in house demonstration. That tells you nothing.
Nor is it good enough just to assume that a few thousand other users can't all be wrong, because the sad fact is that in many professional firms, commerce and government departments the individuals in charge of IT procurement (be they IT experts or not) are fairly clueless about the software products they inflict on others, and once the money has been spent they are saddled with it.
What you need to do is use the program for a week (or at the very least, a couple of days). That is the only sure way to tell whether the program (a)is user friendly, (b)does what the user wants or what the program wants, (c) is free of bugs or bug ridden, (d) slow or fast and (e) value for money etc etc.
I personally think Iris personal tax software is a heap of rubbish. Just try using Intuit Taxcalc 2004 to produce a tax return after first using Iris and you'll see what I mean. OK I hear you say, Intuit doesn't currently do dividends and capital gains. But who knows, with such a winner on their hands Intuit might consider doing so. The program is one of the most user friendly I have ever used, and uncomplicated.
As I have not tried any other personal tax return software I cannot, and would not, comment on other personal tax software on the market. But neither should Accounting Web, until someone suitably experienced has used the products for a week.
Sole practitioners and small firms looking for a flexible and powerful accounting program which is uncomplicated and allows amendment or deletion of entries should try downloading Account Pro from the www.accsoft-ch.com website. I did and after using it for 3 or 4 days had no hesitation in forking out the £128 to buy it. (The download version is the full version but the more data that is input the more frequently pop ups appear urging the user to buy).
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Iris personal tax software
If you are going to produce meaningful and worthwhile software reviews then it is no good just visiting the software house and watching an in house demonstration. That tells you nothing.
Nor is it good enough just to assume that a few thousand other users can't all be wrong, because the sad fact is that in many professional firms, commerce and government departments the individuals in charge of IT procurement (be they IT experts or not) are fairly clueless about the software products they inflict on others, and once the money has been spent they are saddled with it.
What you need to do is use the program for a week (or at the very least, a couple of days). That is the only sure way to tell whether the program (a)is user friendly, (b)does what the user wants or what the program wants, (c) is free of bugs or bug ridden, (d) slow or fast and (e) value for money etc etc.
I personally think Iris personal tax software is a heap of rubbish. Just try using Intuit Taxcalc 2004 to produce a tax return after first using Iris and you'll see what I mean. OK I hear you say, Intuit doesn't currently do dividends and capital gains. But who knows, with such a winner on their hands Intuit might consider doing so. The program is one of the most user friendly I have ever used, and uncomplicated.
As I have not tried any other personal tax return software I cannot, and would not, comment on other personal tax software on the market. But neither should Accounting Web, until someone suitably experienced has used the products for a week.
Sole practitioners and small firms looking for a flexible and powerful accounting program which is uncomplicated and allows amendment or deletion of entries should try downloading Account Pro from the www.accsoft-ch.com website. I did and after using it for 3 or 4 days had no hesitation in forking out the £128 to buy it. (The download version is the full version but the more data that is input the more frequently pop ups appear urging the user to buy).