AccountEdge 2

Overall, the effect of the new AccountEdge 2 navigation interface is clean and practical, emphasizing the activities of business over accounting jargon, and displaying each activity in the context of overall workflow. The improved bank register allows users to enter all new transactions on one screen--ATM withdrawals, checks, deposits, sales, etc.--and with one click, you can download your online banking statement and have it automatically compared against records on your hard drive. Accounts can now be tracked by name, for those who hate memorizing their account numbers.

Invoicing also got a bit easier, allowing users to add headers and subtotals so sales can be categorized and described in ways useful to the business. Service-oriented business owners will rejoice at being able to bill for time and materials on a single invoice, and at the ability to create packing slips at the same time as creating invoices or orders. AccountEdge 2 continues earlier support of inventory and payroll functions, as well as exporting to file formats that accountants using CaseWare and Microsoft Excel can read.

Small business owners with older Macs, or, rather, older versions of the Mac OS, have the most to gain from AccountEdge 2. Currently Mac OS X won't allow AccountEdge full fax capabilities, and there may be certain problems sending e-mail depending on how the user has configured their mail account. As of this writing, Mac OS X users are also restrained to using the software only in single-user mode; OS X does not permit AccountEdge 2 file sharing and attempting to share AccountEdge files on a Mac running OX S with a Mac running OS 8.6 or 9.x can permanently corrupt company records. (MYOB and Apple are currently working to resolve this problem for future releases.) However, users running AccountEdge 2 on Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x should have no problem running the software in multi-user mode. --Elizabeth Aoki

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Streamline your business and make quick work of paying bills, processing payroll, keeping track of sales taxes, and more with AccountEdge 2. For businesses of all kinds, AccountEdge provides tools that can help run your business more efficiently. Take care of invoicing and estimates, managing contacts, billing time, payables and receivables, and more.

Produce all the financial and management reports you or your accountant need. Even e-mail reports and forms in PDF format directly from AccountEdge. And, AccountEdge has been designed to take advantage of the new Aqua interface of Mac OS X. With its 100 business templates and setup wizard, you can get started any time during the fiscal year with AccountEdge.

However, this version, despite the additional bells and whistles, is slow at best (System: Dual 533 processsor, 384 megs of RAM, running 10.1) and very unstable. No news is available from MYOB as to when any fixes maybe available and the "Marvin" FAQ search is all but useless.
Multi-user problems still have not been fixed, months after OSX was publicly released. MYOB is really working hard on correcting that. Yeah,

AccountEdge 1, in my opinion, ran much better. It's a shame that MYOB forces users to upgrade since they only offer a 2002 payroll update for AccountEdge 2 (which is also flawed).