MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0

by MYOB US

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003L4E0
• Item model number: MPRUWC09
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,549 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

If you're venturing into business or have reached your limit with pencil-and-paper accounting methods, consider MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0. This full-featured package contains everything you need to run your own accounts or prepare just the right reports to hand off to a pro.

Setup is simple, though you should have had at least a taste of accounting procedure in the past if you don't want to be overwhelmed. Choose from over 100 flowchart-style account systems--one of them is sure to match your own business model closely--and get started right away. Navigation is slick and intuitive, but there's also excellent multimedia instruction should you get stuck. Using the ledgers is just as easy, and while there are some limitations in forms and account numbers, the unique multicurrency system with automatic exchange-rate tracking and the item price matrix that allows up to 30 different prices per item more than compensate. Accounting tasks can be automated, and reminders set up to spur you to action when necessary.

E-commerce sites might want to look elsewhere, though. Despite the advantages offered by the multicurrency system, MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0 has little direct Web integration--users must kludge together a cut-and-paste system or use Microsoft Office, which MYOB supports.

Ask any small-business owner to name the most frustrating aspect of their work and you're sure to hear "finance." Even if a business can afford to hire an accountant, keeping financial data integrated with other information and even simple record keeping can strain the most organized mind. Even with the above-mentioned limitations, MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0 is powerful and easy to use; distributors and most other small businesses will find their money hassles disappearing after a few months of use. --Rob Lightner

Amazon.com Product Description

MYOB Accounting Plus is what you need to help you run your business successfully. It can let you know if you are making the amount of money you hoped you'd make when you started your business. If you're not, Accounting Plus can give you the information you need to change that. The numbers from MYOB Accounting Plus let you know, through financial reports, what you should do next, if you're charging enough for your services, if you should take out a loan, buy a piece of equipment, whether you should stop selling a particular item, or sell more of it, how you can offer your employees more benefits, and how you can justify a cruise for yourself, among many other wonderful things. MYOB Accounting Plus does this best because it offers over 100 accounting and financial management reports. It even lets you customize your reports and save as many versions of them as you'd like. You can also send your report information to an Excel spreadsheet and play with the numbers to see what would happen if you did this or that. Or, you can let your accountant do this for you. Accounting Plus 9 lets you e-mail your reports, so your accountant can have them on demand and waste no time in advising you on your next best step.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Full of functionality, hard to use, May 12, 2000

By 

Matthew G. Belge (Lincoln, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0 (CD-ROM)

MYOB is the package I've been using for the last 6 years to keep track of the money for my little one person company. To me the key to this whole thing is "Mind YOUR OWN Business." If you really are the person running a small business, are you likely to be familiar with double entry bookkeeping? I'm not. So you're constantly presented with little brain teasers like "is this a debit account or a credit account." If you're not an accountant, this will be more puzzling than you think.

Then there are problems like printing a check, the printer jams, and you have to print it again. MYOB forces you to delete the old check and then start over from scratch creating the new one. There are many little usability problems like this one that just make me want to scream.

In fairness, MYOB has lots of features - reminder lists, payroll, inventory, and more. It does a lot, and the price isn't bad.

Its just that, if you run a small business you wear a lot of hats. You don't want to spend a lot of time figuring out how to use your accounting software. You want to write a check, enter a sale, or check inventory, and be done with it. MYOB makes you work harder than you probably want to.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Looks good on the surface but...., July 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0 (CD-ROM)

I evaluated a trial version of this software that was billed as "fully functional". It was heartily endorsed by a business consultant. But, I found that it was extremely cumbersome. The import abilities are weak, and I am still wondering why there was no provision for printing a duplicate invoice. That is where I gave up. My advice? Go to myob.com and download the trail version before you spend any money on this one.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Quick Clean Program, September 25, 2000

By 

Jeremy Page, CPA (Erie, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MYOB Accounting Plus 9.0 (CD-ROM)

I was suprised at the unfavorable reviews. I like this program and my experience is that other people find this program easy to use, too.

There is a great graphics interface that helps you keep your bearings as you work through your various tasks. For example, it is easy to reprint checks or invoices, just pull up the form in the transaction journal and hit the print button. The drill down capabilities let you go from your reports to the source of your information as well as it is a push of a button to put the report into Excell.

The inventory module is what for me puts this program on top. There are features included that you would have to pay thousands for in other programs, such as multiple levels of pricing. MYOB just leaves others in the dust.

Special note to MacIntosh users. QuickBooks has dropped the Mac platform and given MYOB the lead. MYOB is long time Mac ally and they are investing in the future with a new version that will take advantage of Apple's latest O/S. I like that MYOB will run the same data file on both the Mac and the PC.

This program runs clean and nimble. I recommend it.