Semi-OT: Referral for Linux-friendly accountant

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 06:51 -0700, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello all:
> I've been trying for some time to get rid of a particular Windows legacy 
> machine, which I keep only for the copy of Quick Books on it. I would 
> like to switch over to Gnu Cash or some other Linux program, but QB is 
> the only program my current accountant will deal with. So I need to find 
> a Linux-friendly accountant, preferably in the Glendale area, but 
> hopefully no further east than Tempe. I have less than two months until 
> the corporate tax deadline of 3/15, so I need to take action now.
> 
> Secondly, I would like to know if there are any good programs - Linux or 
> Windoze, free or not - to help me extract my QB information in a 
> convenient manner. I'm _extremely_ irritated with Intuit, so the last 
> thing I want to do is buy an update and give them any more money. And 
> that's what I'd have to do to keep using the program.
> 
> /Begin rant
> At the moment, I can't even _move_ my ancient copy of QB99 to another 
> Windows system. I tried installing QB99 on my wife's XP machine, but it 
> couldn't read my company file. Why not? Because, back in 99 and 2000, 
> Intuit seduced me into accepting their online updates. Now I discover 
> that my company data is marked as being a NEWER REVISION than QB99, and 
> in QuickBooks, NOTHING is backwards compatible. And of course Intuit 
> doesn't support a 9-year-old program, so I'm stuck. I'm not by any means 
> an open-source fanatic. But I AM an open-format fanatic. This is _my_ 
> data, I own it. Intuit sucks!
> /End rant
> 
> Thanks for any advice you folks can give me!
> Vaughn
> 
> PS If anyone knows of a sneaky way to patch my files so that a virgin 
> copy of QB99 can read it, that would also be helpful.
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try installing demo of MyBooks and see if it can import...

http://www.appgen.com/site/mybooks_professional.htm

Craig