Review by K. Hinton

As an Excel devotee, I can say that Microsoft Accounting Professional 2008 is an easy convert for someone who’s never used accounting software. It has a variety of templates that allow you to set up ways to monitor and track expenses. It has features like how to create purchase orders, track inventory, and run payroll, etc. As a small business owner (very small, employees = 1), I didn’t really need all the extra features, but the ones that I did use were pretty intuitive. It does, however, allow me to bill clients an invoice using Microsoft Outlook, and with a nice, professional looking template to boot. It provides easy integration with Excel, allowing me to transfer business reports between the two seamlessly. As a whole, I wish I’d gone with the Express, which is the free version, because supposedly it’s got less junk that I don’t need to bog down my time, but for the features, I’d recommend Accounting 2008 to a small business owner.