I also have quick-books as well, but quicken is by far more user friendly, and additionally, as performing musicians and entertainers, quick-books offers no advantage other than the ability to create and track invoices. As for inventory, most of us don't carry any, therefore, quicken is the program of choice. The only thing I use quick-books for is generating and tracking invoices to some of the government and non-profit agencies that I also do work for. Everyone else pays me by check, and that is entered into quicken.

The only time I was ever audited, which was more than 10 years ago, I was asked for details of all expenditures for that particular year. I merely went into quicken, printed out the reports in every expenditure category, and placed it into a large mailer and UPS'd it to them. It was about 200 pages long. After three months, a post card arrived saying "Thank you for your cooperation. No farther documentation is required." Good record keeping is the only way to survive in this business.

Cheers,

Gary