Accounting Software
 

I've just purchased a new computer for home, and need to also purchase a new accounting program (MS Money, Quicken, Quickbooks, etc.) and was wondering if any of you had any suggestions for something that works well with officiating needs.

I just use an abacus and record the info onto parchment with a quill pen.

Seriously, what do you want to record? I just keep my schedule in my Outlook calendar and I keep track of pay, mileage and other expenses in Excel.

That's what I do now, as well, but those are the things I'm looking to maybe integrate. Expenses, mileage, accounts receiveable, accounts payable, etc. Just wondering if there's something cheaper than Quicken Home and Business that has the features I'd use.

Where it says ss# put BR-549. Then go cash your checks at a 7-11 where nobody speaks English.

I went to my local 7-11 the other night around 10 pm. The kid was locking up. I said, "Aren't you open 24 hours?" He replied, "Duh - not in a row!"

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Shouldn't 7-11 close at 11? :confused: :eek:

This joke stolen from Steven Wright.

Quickbooks is overkill.

Money and Quicken are basically the same but different. I personally like MS Money, but just as many like Quicken.

For officiating alone (without any other personal finances), a simple excel spreadsheet would be more then enough.

I agree with Cam....a book keeping program is way overkill. If you're not comfortable creating a spreadsheet in Excel, then something like Quicken or MS Money to keep track of income, expenses & mileage would be a good choice.

IMHO you'd be better off spending $40 a year on a good tax prep program (which is a deductible expense). I personally like TurboTax Deluxe, which includes everything you need to do your schedule C. It really simplifies the process.

Actually, the 7-11 by my undergrad school did have those hours - open at 7 am, close at 11 pm.

That's how the company got it's name. Originally, they were all open from 7 to 11, which was very unusual for stores at that time.

I can't fault any of you for not knowing that, because it happened way before any of you were born - around the year 711. However, I remember it well. :p

Actually, I did in fact know this. That fact and a quarter will get me a phone call, but meh, what can you do.

It is 11 somewhere if they close at 10.

And it's 11 somewhere when they open at 7.

And it's always 5 O'clock somewhere. Right M&M Guy?

India straddles two time zones, so they split the difference and put the entire country at half past (it's 7:40 am here and 5:10 pm there). Nepal likes to be different so they're :15 ahead of India.

What was the question?

I've also heard that all of China is one time zone. It's geographically large enough to cover 6 time zones or something like that, but the whole country is on Beijing time. I just looked it up; it's GMT +8 hours.

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We have a similar situation here in the US.

Cleveland is a step & a half behind the rest of the country.

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Isn't there a time zone in Canada that's a half hour ahead of Eastern Time?

Edited: Found it, it's Newfoundland, and it's an hour and a half ahead of US Eastern Time.

You've obviously never visited Geauga (gee-AW-guh) County, Ohio, where the signs read:
Welcome to Geauga County, please set your clocks back 50 years.

Still, Geauga County produces more maple syrup than the state of Vermont.

Wait, what was the question again?

That's true (they should have 5 time zones). Very convenient for the central bureaucrats in Beijing, but not so nice when you get up in Lhasa at 7 am and the sun still thinks it's 2 am.

Is this thread now about the question of what do you do when officiating a game on a cruise ship in which the ship crosses the international date line while you are conducting a 10 second back court count? :confused:

No, it's not. But, thanks for asking.

And, FWIW, I think the world should only have one time zone -- everyone should use GMT.

Go home, come back the next day, complete the count, collect for two days travel and per diem.

Doesn't the military call it zulu time or something like that? I think it stands for "zero meridian". BTW - recently there was an "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade Magazine that listed the dumbest questions she had received all year. One was from someone who wanted to know why, instead of moving clocks ahead and behind one hour for DST adjustment twice a year, didn't we just move all clocks ahead a half an hour once and just leave them there from now on since it would "balance out". :D

Communist!

That's why we fought the revolutionary war; to avoid heavy taxes and GMT.

Hmmm, I believe WE invented time zones. But perhaps we did it so we could assign ourselves something other than GMT. ;)

Now you're just arguing grammantics.
That's what I meant. :D

Argh! This is what is frustrating to non-Americans. The ISO format for timezones specifies that the TZ is Eastern. It is not called "US Eastern Time."

Actually, a US citizen proposed time zones for the US only. A Canadian proposed the system on a worldwide basis.

I was trying to avoid being parochial by referring to it as US Eastern; thus differentiating it from the North American Time Zones that happen to be located further east.

Oh, and you are American. ;)

Yabut, me being North American gets used about as often as I, or anyone, says that they're an Earthling. :p

The good part of the USA right now is that it's a good place to buy stuff, since my dollar is worth the same as your dollar. :D