Escaping spreadsheet hell
Have you ever seen someone get excited about accounting software ? Yes, I mean the kind of software for which you used to need a diploma in number-crunching and a PhD in bean-counting in order to be able to use it. Enter PC Pro’s review of FreeAgent, the web-based accounting tool that I’ve joined as an investor and advisor earlier this year . This is not one of those product reviews where someone spends an hour testing five different applications and writes a roundup afterwards. No, this guy has spent a year working with FreeAgent, so his opinion is extremely well-founded. The article gives a good overview of what FreeAgent is all about and why it’s so much better than Sage (which is or at least used to be the de-facto standard accounting software in the UK). I urge you to read the full article , but if you want the conclusion only, here you go: FreeAgent ranks in my top couple of web applications of any sort. As an extremely busy person, I confess to almost enjoying doing the accou...