For a long time, until the end of the 20th century, the main tool for accounting was ordinary wooden abacus. The famous long-living billionaire John Rockefeller personally calculated his first income on such accounts, and subsequently all his accounting was carried out using these devices. This invention of our distant ancestors perfectly combines ease of use, functionality and universal accessibility. Modern accounting programs and online services that entrepreneurs use in their work should have exactly the same qualities. As they say, they should, but they don’t have to. In this article, we will try to separate the wheat from the chaff and present to budding entrepreneurs the best examples of accounting software.

So, if we consider the installed accounting programs and online services together, assessing their convenience, ease of learning and power of functionality, then a kind of short TOP will look like this:

1. “My business” – low price and an unprecedented level of accounting security.
2. "Info-Accountant" - wide functionality and ease of learning.
3. “Sky” is easy to use and has a mobile version.
4. "Circuit. Accounting" is a perfectly balanced online service.
5. "1C: Accounting" - everything an accountant needs!
6. "Turbo Accountant" - powerful functionality and high speed.
7. "BEST" is flexible and multitasking.
8. “My Finances” is ideal for freelancers and small entrepreneurs.

And now – more details about each.

We're in the clouds

Cloud services have recently reached the accounting field and immediately gained popularity due to a number of advantages compared to offline software. Aspiring entrepreneurs and simply small business owners breathed a sigh of relief. They got rid of the need to buy expensive accounting software, as well as periodically pay for its technical support and updates.

Maintaining accounting using specialized online services is much cheaper (sometimes even free), and often the functionality of such programs is in no way inferior to their classic installed counterparts. They can be used to prepare many types of financial statements, issue invoices, and also calculate salaries and taxes. Such services are very convenient for doing accounting at home - all you need is an Internet connection. Read below for a review of the five best, according to amateurs and professionals, cloud services for accounting.

Sky

Behind the poetic name of this online service lies a set of simple and intuitive tools for comfortable work with accounting documentation and maintaining various types of reporting. Beginning businessmen who have good accounting skills will be pleased.

pros

In the Sky online service, you can make reports on the simplified tax system, OSN, UTII and submit them to the tax service without generating an electronic signature, which is undoubtedly a big advantage of this program. Ready documents are uploaded in the form of common Excel and XML files. This cloud service has its own application for smartphones and an SMS notification service about submitting reports.

Minuses

There is only one – the insufficient “promotion” of the service, which causes some distrust of it on the part of entrepreneurs.

What is the price?

The service has two tariffs - “Tandem” and “Team”, which differ from each other in the set of capabilities and price (for example, “Team” allows one user to manage the accounting of several legal entities at the same time). You will have to pay 500 rubles a month for using the “Tandem” and 3,500 rubles for the “Team” tariff. An additional fee of 100 rubles is charged for submitting reports to the Federal Tax Service and various state funds.

My business

This cloud service has been operating successfully for 9 years without causing any serious complaints from users. Its functionality allows you to maintain accounting records for even the largest enterprises - thousands of satisfied entrepreneurs will confirm this.

pros

“My Business” has its own database of regulations, forms and forms, and also sends out weekly news digests for entrepreneurs. Through this online service, the user can get advice from qualified accounting and tax specialists. There is a free period of use to get acquainted with the service. Particular attention is paid to the problem of data transmission security - the main information repositories (DATA centers) are located outside the Russian Federation, which makes it almost impossible to steal it. The service is also integrated with leading Russian banks, which simplifies routine operations of downloading bank statements.

Minuses

The disadvantages include the lack of SMS notification about the fact of submitting reports - the corresponding notifications are sent by e-mail. But you will be reminded about the deadlines for submitting reports via SMS in advance.

What is the price?

Depending on the tariff, of which there are as many as five types, the cost of services of this online service ranges from 366 to 2083 rubles per month.

Circuit. Accounting

Focused primarily on small businesses, this cloud service has sufficiently broad functionality to solve a variety of accounting problems.

pros

It is difficult to highlight any clear advantages of this online service over its counterparts on the market. This is a good software product that has the necessary set of functions for comfortable accounting. It contains tools that simplify accounting and control of the movement of goods in the warehouse, and for users of elite tariff plans there is access to a database of regulatory documents. It is also worth noting that customer training is periodically organized through webinars.

Minuses

The main disadvantage is the lack of accounting support at enterprises engaged in the production of agricultural products. Also, the functionality of “Contour” does not allow solving some highly specialized accounting tasks.

What is the price?

There’s plenty to roam around here: seven types of tariffs – this is no joke! For the basic Accounting tariff you will have to pay 1000 rubles every quarter. The most advanced “Lux” tariff will cost an entrepreneur 4,000 rubles, but it allows you to maintain accounting for two legal entities at once. The cost of other intermediate and specialized tariffs (“Standard”, “Salary”, “Comfort”) ranges from 1,500 to 3,000 rubles. By the way, online submission of reports is already included in the price of each tariff.

My finances

Inexpensive and easy-to-learn online accounting service, which includes a standard set of tools for maintaining accounting records for small businesses.

pros

Perhaps an ideal option for freelancers and individual entrepreneurs. In addition, if the user one day gets tired of doing accounting himself, then he can outsource it - this service provides a corresponding service.

Minuses

With a stretch, the disadvantages include the limited functionality of the service, which may not be enough to perform non-standard accounting operations.

What is the price?

The prices for tariffs in “My Finance” are not at all steep. The “Just Documents” tariff will cost the client 1,200 rubles per year of use. “Without employees” – 2,400 rubles per year, and “With employees” – 4,200 rubles for six months.

1C (Internet version)

The 1C company relatively recently launched its Accounting software package online. The most famous accounting program has become more accessible to the average entrepreneur, and this is good news.

pros

A huge set of tools for accounting in all available forms of business organization. Availability of our own training center and consulting service.

Minuses

There probably are, but no one has found them yet.

What is the price?

There are a great variety of tariff plans. The cheapest, “Individual”, costs 400 rubles per month. The most advanced, “Corporate”, costs 6,400 rubles per month. The differences between all tariffs are based on the different amount of server space provided and the possible number of connected clients.

Other suitable online accounting services include “ImBoss” and “My Warehouse”, but, as they say, they are not for everyone.

There is a prejudice that accounting on cloud services is very risky and threatens to leak company financial data. However, information transmitted from a computer to a remote server is always encrypted with the most modern software, so the likelihood of it being leaked to third parties is close to zero.

Install and use

Let us tell you a terrible secret: the 1C company has been, in fact, a monopolist in the development of accounting software for many years. What, you knew that?! How does everyone know this?! Well, the revelation of the century failed...

Speaking seriously, the software products united by the collective name “1C: Accounting” have not yet been surpassed by anyone in terms of quality and scope of functionality. Their only drawback is the high price. “1C: Accounting 8. Basic version” costs about 5,000 rubles, but for the advanced “1C: Accounting 8. CORP” you will have to pay from 30 to 35 thousand rubles, depending on the store where the purchase is made. There is no point in describing the benefits of this wonderful set of accounting tools. Suffice it to say that this is the best software for accountant work today. And period.

However, nestled in the shadow of the giant are other excellent accounting software programs. Each of them is good in its own way and has its own contingent of satisfied users.

Info-Accountant

The first version of this program was released back in 1992, and along with its competitor from the company 1C, Info-Accountant became one of the pioneers in the accounting software market. Today, this program is implemented on two platforms: “Info-Accountant 8” and “Info-Accountant 10”.

pros

The widest functionality, ease of learning, amazing elaboration of the smallest aspects of the program. Ability to conduct all types of accounting for small and medium-sized businesses. The main competitor of 1C, almost in no way inferior to it.

Minuses

Only one – the high cost of an annual update (although the first year is free).

What is the price?

Versions on the Info-Accountant 8 platform cost from 5,000 to 21,000 rubles. “Info-Accountant 10” will cost much more – from 8,000 to 36,000 rubles. For an additional fee, you can purchase various highly specialized additional blocks, costing from 4,000 rubles each. There is also a free downloadable version of this program with limited functionality.

Turbo Accountant

The Turbo Accountant line of programs includes several products designed to automate accounting and tax accounting for all types of enterprises, regardless of their form of organization. Currently, the Turbo 9 Accounting version is widely used.

pros

All types of accounting are maintained in a single information base, and the process of working with reporting is surprisingly flexible and fast. The program is perfectly optimized and does not slow down even under heavy load. Software updates occur once a quarter.

Minuses

This program is difficult to learn, and accounting beginners should not mess with it. The accompanying documentation alone takes up as many as five volumes!

What is the price?

The simplest set for solving typical accounting problems, “Turbo 9 Accountant,” costs only 990 rubles. The price of other versions is from 7,000 to 11,000 rubles. Network solutions for 5 and 10 workstations will cost the buyer 34,000 and 58,000 rubles, respectively.

BEST

"BEST" is an advanced information system for managing various types of enterprises. For more than 20 years, this software product has been successfully used to manage businesses and maintain the most complex accounting records.

pros

The main advantage of this program is its division into application functional blocks, which are unique developments of the company. There are four main application blocks: finance, logistics, production and personnel. The operation of these blocks can be carried out both in autonomous and joint modes.

Minuses

Among the disadvantages, it is worth highlighting the frequent delays in the release of updates and the closed nature of the platform. You won’t be able to “finish” something in the program yourself.

What is the price?

Different versions of this software product cost from 9,000 to 30,000 rubles.

Anything useful

In addition to mastodon programs with wide functionality, the world of accounting software has its own dwarfs, small but useful. Despite their rather narrow focus, they always find their user. So, we meet: because of the powerful backs of “Info-Accountant” and “1C: Accounting”, the following application programs timidly appear on the stage:

1. "Debit Plus". This program will be useful for individual entrepreneurs and small businesses. It includes tools for maintaining warehouse accounting, a system for working with the client base, and also allows you to conduct simple accounting.
2. "A pineapple" . This software is a free analogue of the famous accounting program from 1C. Using Pineapple, you can automate sales, purchases, and generate many types of reports.
3. "Own technology". A more “heavy” program, compared to the previous two, designed to maintain management accounting for small and medium-sized businesses. The uniqueness of the network version of this software product lies in the free access of clients to a single database.
4. "Athena". This program exists in two “incarnations”: single-user and network. Both are used to create a variety of accounting tasks and then work with them. Athena can be classified as a software framework for rapid application development.

The described versions of the above programs are free and are freely available on the global network.

Eventually

Each entrepreneur chooses exactly the program/online service for accounting that fully corresponds to the specifics of his business. One thing is for sure: nowadays, a novice entrepreneur who owns a relatively small business can easily handle the accounting of his company on his own. Fortunately, the capabilities of modern accounting programs and cloud services are constantly expanding, while simplifying their use. And, finally, Captain Obvious will add his weighty word: if only there was something to take into account, then there would be the necessary accounting program!

accounting.

Convenient for any complexity

Comfortable

Accounting for fixed assets and materials.

Accounting for works, services, trade and

Workplace automation

Automatic generation of all types of reporting.

Uploading reports for electronic submission.

Electronic invoices and electronic documents.

Maintaining records of several organizations (ORN/STS) in one program.

Keeping records of several entrepreneurs (IP ORN, IP USN) in one program.

Availability of versions for SNT, etc.

You can purchase the Info-Accountant program:
From regional dealers * * If there is no dealer in your city yet, call the developer’s office in Moscow
You will immediately, remotely and free of charge:

• will answer any questions,
• demonstrate the capabilities of the program,
• will help you choose the right configuration,
• install and configure the program remotely.

Accounting and reporting

Accounting policies / Documents and registers / Business transactions / Reporting

• Automatic reflection of business transactions in registers (HMO, KUDIR..) and generation of reports on paper and electronically.
• Automatic preparation of turnover sheets, cash flow cards, etc. in any analytical sections with detailed indicators specified by the user.
• Accounting policy. Financial analysis of financial statements.

Salary and personnel records

State and Pers. accounting / Accrual / Wages / Taxes / Reporting

• Automatic salary calculation of any complexity.
• Formation and submission of documents to the Federal Tax Service, Pension Fund and Social Insurance Fund (including via the Internet)
• Accounting for vacation pay, sick leave, benefits and payments at the expense of the Social Insurance Fund, etc.
• All payment options: from the cash register, to bank cards, by transfer

Currently, two versions of the accounting program are being replicated:

- Classic version of Info-Accountant 8.8.

For more than 26 years, the accounting program Info-Accountant has earned enormous popularity among accountants and has gained thousands of adherents. Our program is designed for complete integrated automation of accounting for small and medium-sized businesses. The program covers all areas of accounting and tax accounting. The program is continuously developed and improved based on the wishes of thousands of users. New versions are released monthly and are installed automatically.

The main advantages of the accounting program Info-Accountant 8 are simplicity and accessibility in installation, configuration and development. Info-Accountant is an ideal accounting tool for small and medium-sized businesses (up to 1000 employees)

- Innovative version of Info-Accountant 10.2.

This comprehensive enterprise automation program is based on advanced technologies for enterprises with more complex accounting. The program has powerful multi-level analytics, developed tools for maintaining comprehensive accounting, tax, production, warehouse and management accounting. The accounting program Info-Accountant 10.2 allows you to work correctly and quickly with large volumes of data (hundreds of thousands and millions of records in the database).

Info-Accountant 10.2 is a modern, rapidly developing and constantly improving program for business based on practical experience!

You can buy the Info-Accountant program:

Demo version of the accounting program Info-Accountant 8.8:

Demo version of the accounting program Info-Accountant 8.8. allows you to get acquainted with all the capabilities of the program, understand all its advantages and benefits.

Features of the free version of the accounting program Info-Accountant 8.8:

• All functionality of the professional version is retained.
• Possibility of maintaining records of several organizations and entrepreneurs.
• No work time restrictions.
• Monthly automatic updating of the accounting program via the Internet
• You don't need a programmer to install the program - you can do it yourself.
• The accounting program is provided with a demo that greatly facilitates understanding.
• The only limitation is 150 business transactions (excluding the number of transactions!), selected from the business transactions journal to be reflected in the reports for the year.
• This amount is enough for a detailed acquaintance with the accounting program, for keeping records for the smallest companies, and for preparing “zero” reporting.
• After exceeding this number of operations, you can easily switch to the paid professional version of the accounting program, which has no restrictions.
• When you upgrade to the basic version (up to 300 operations) or the professional version (no restrictions), all the data you entered will be saved.
• To get better acquainted with the accounting program, enter your details and data and work a little.
• Questions about working with the program can be asked on the forum.
• User seminars are held quarterly in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

At the seminars, you can learn about the Info-Accountant accounting program from the authoritative opinion of professionals who have chosen Info-Accountant over many other programs.

Having compared in practice the work of different accounting programs, they would never exchange Info-Accountant for any other program!

Everyone knows that an accountant is a specialist who keeps accounting records at enterprises, firms, and factories. No self-respecting organization can do without an accountant. With its help, workers receive their salaries on time, taxes and fees are paid into the state treasury.

Federal legislation clearly states that accounting employees are responsible not only for maintaining accounting records, but also for the timely submission and provision of reliable and truthful reports.

If you are a beginner accountant, then this article is for you. Let's look at what accounting (AC) is and what programs exist on the Internet to help with maintaining such records.

Accounting

In the Russian Federation, there is a law “On Accounting”, which defines the concept of an accounting account; in addition, it regulates the accounting process itself in any enterprise. Based on the reading of this law, accounting is the collection and processing of information about the objects of the company’s activities, because all information is presented in financial statements, and the process of accounting for business transactions occurs continuously. Any business operation is confirmed by certain primary documents, according to which accounting entries are drawn up.

Here are the basic accounting rules:

• continuity;
• filling out documents for each operation;
• reflection of all actions in the posting, which is made on the basis of the primary document;
• accounting only in monetary terms;
• information from accounting documents is recorded in accounting registers.

Accounting software

Nowadays, many Internet sites offer software for maintaining such records. What are they needed for? The use of these programs simplifies the accounting procedure and saves time for bookkeeping. How to understand them? A good program helps optimize the necessary operations:

• collect and register primary documentation;
• carry out the necessary calculations;
• analyze articles of legislation;
• draw up a register of business transactions;
• determine production costs;
• fill out financial reporting forms, order journals and postings.

In addition, modern electronic automated programs require effective work with the main assets and liabilities of the enterprise.

How to choose a decent program

So, choosing a decent program involves the following steps:

1. Decide on your goals (which accounting processes you need to optimize):
   • for a small company, programs with built-in strict accounting schemes and ready-made settings are suitable;
   • for large and medium-sized ones – those that allow you to adapt the virtual environment to the characteristics of a given enterprise.
2. Find a suitable program on the Internet and decide how you will use it: online or on a personal computer.
3. Be sure to take into account whether it has technical support, what the cost of updates is, the presence of hidden fees (updates cannot always be downloaded for free, much less ask for help).
4. Read user reviews (this will help you decide whether this program is really as good as the developers advertise it).

Free programs

Most often, programs in this category solve problems partially, that is, some specific tasks. Let's look at some of them.

1. “Legal Taxpayer” is the official program of the Federal Tax Service, helps prepare tax and accounting reporting forms.

Advantages: automatic filling, detection of existing errors, produces a form for submitting reports in finished form, you can manage several companies, completed forms are printed or saved in xml format.

1. “Info-enterprise” – for small businesses (about one hundred employees).

Advantages: you can change the settings to suit your needs, works even on old computers, unlimited access to online updating of reporting forms and algorithms. Alas, there are fewer service functions for multi-user work.

1. “Info-accountant 10.2” - presented by ORN, USN, Budget - for small companies.

Advantages: there are no restrictions on the number of employees, except for accounting, payroll, personnel and warehouse records.

1. The starting version of “Accounting for settlements and funds” is from the “Bonus” software package.

Advantages: analytical accounting and posting cards, simplified reporting, tax register generator.

1. “Business Pack” – for generating, recording and printing primary documentation.

Advantages: flexible document editor, 1C principle, exchange of papers through the Telepak service.

1. “Simplified” - author Burenin V., for calculating the amount of single tax for legal entities and individuals.

Advantages: automatically generates a tax return, a tax payment receipt in the bank, an inventory for sending documents by mail, supports the calculation of 6% tax and 15%.

Paid programs

• Thanks to Internet access, you can work without being tied to an office;
• centralized updates that do not require additional payment;
• document-to-document integration with trade management service;
• supports all taxation systems - general, simplified, in the form of a single tax on imputed income for certain types of activities;
• “Month Closing Assistant” option;
• accounting forms, tax returns, statistical reports with electronic download;
• analysis of available account data;
• 14 day trial period (service charge only).

“Online Accounting: Sky” is intended for small businesses. Advantages: easy to use, convenient templates, sending reports using an electronic signature, reporting calendar, for individual entrepreneurs and LLCs (on the simplified tax system, UTII or OSNO), several users can work. Payment – ​​500 rubles per month.

conclusions

In addition to many advantages, computer accounting programs also have their disadvantages:

• a good program costs money;
• Misunderstandings often arise in settings, maintenance, and program updates.

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When choosing programs, this fact should also be remembered.

The use of computers in accounting practice has become a necessity. A specialist who does not know how to work on a computer can hardly count on success now.

Currently, there are a large number of different accounting programs. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. Programs that provide more capabilities for specific types of accounting usually lose due to excessive overload with details. Other programs are easier and more accessible to use, but some functions may be missing when working with them. Most often, the choice of software depends on the specific tasks that you have to solve. Each accountant prepares payment documents, cash receipts and expenditure orders, but the accounting department of a manufacturing enterprise, where it is required to keep records of the receipt and movement of goods and materials, issue invoices and maintain books of sales and purchases, differs significantly from the accounting department of a government institution, where all these functions , most likely, will be redundant.

How can a constantly busy accountant navigate this variety of software? What programs should I choose to use at work?

The software product "1C version 8.2" for teaching programming is intended for gaining skills in modifying existing and creating new application solutions in the 1C:Enterprise 8 system.

The version for learning programming is an affordable solution for a wide range of users who want to get acquainted with the 1C:Enterprise 8 program system and learn configuration techniques: creating and changing the structure of metadata, writing program modules, developing dialogs and interfaces, administering application solutions on the platform " 1C:Enterprise 8".

Along with the study tasks, it is possible to use the educational version of the platform for modification and development of real application solutions within the capabilities of this delivery. The formats of the configuration information databases for the educational and commercial versions do not differ; the complexity of the configurations in the educational version is not limited. However, debugging capabilities, for example, are limited by restrictions on data volumes. Real operation of application solutions can only be carried out on commercial versions of the 1C:Enterprise 8 system.

This modern accounting program does not require special training. Finally, the accountant is not constrained in the actions he performs; any “specific accounting operations” in Info-Enterprise are standard.

Advantage over others accounting programs is that it is based on the “Unified Journal of Operations”, which contains initial data on accounting, tax and/or management accounting. Regardless of the taxation regimes used (ORN, simplified taxation system, patent-based simplified taxation system, unified agricultural tax, UTII) and accounting policies, the Accounting program will suit you just right. And if you have several organizations or individual entrepreneurs working together, then it is possible to maintain consolidated records of all of them in a single database.

FOLIO BukhMaster

It supports a multi-level access control system, complete information confidentiality, and high reliability through the use of advanced client-server technology. Easy for the user to set up any method of accounting, create new accounting objects and reference books, analytical sections. Ease of creating custom reports needed by an accountant on any parameter of multi-level analytics. There is no need to call specialists to start accounting in the organization.

Complexity. Being a module of the CIS "FOLIO Merchant", the accounting program BukhMaster can be used as part of it, or independently. This ensures data exchange with other modules of the corporate system. In particular, automatic interaction with warehouse programs FOLIO WinWarehouse is provided. In automatic mode, a constant connection is maintained between current accounting and warehouse information with automatic updating of accounting data when warehouse and payment documents change.

The program allows an accountant to create accounts of any type and complexity without the involvement of programmers or setup specialists.

Accounting entries in FOLIO BukhMaster have an unlimited number of analytical features for debit, credit and entries in general. Analytical sections with quantitative, total and qualitative accounting can be built by the user independently, adding for each section an arbitrary number of required fixed values ​​for each transaction. The number of analytical reference books and the degree of detail of each of them is determined by the accountant himself. Access to working with postings at certain workplaces may be limited by accounting accounts or program functions. A complete set of ready-made standard entries for accounting and tax accounting is supplied.

VS:Accounting 7.3

VS:Accounting is a software product designed for accounting, payroll and personnel records in small and medium-sized enterprises.

• Accounting
• Payroll preparation
• Personnel accounting
• Personalized accounting