Accounting Software   QuickBooks Regular 2005 Price:  £119.00 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)   QuickBooks: Regular 2005 gives you fast and easy tools to help save time, organize information in one place and manage business finances with confidence.   Key Features and Benefits   Quickly and easily manage basic accounting tasks, including printing checks, paying bills, generating reports, and invoicing customers Organize company, customer, and tax information in one place. Input, track, and share all your data in one secure place, so it is easy to use and easy to find QuickBooks: Basic 2005 is easy to learn and use. Follow the EasyStep® interview to get started fast and fill out familiar forms to input and track information.

Sage Instant Accounts 10 Price:  £125.00 (Excluding: VAT at 17.5%)   Sage Instant Accounts and Instant Accounts Plus make bookkeeping a straightforward task for small businesses, letting you record, control and examine your finances quickly and easily. Instant Accounts products are ideal for small companies of every type, including sole traders and new start-ups.   Sage Instant Accounts products have all of the usual accounting ledgers and they do your double-entry bookkeeping for you. Routine tasks are made simple and straightforward; for example, when you fill in your VAT Return, you fill in the details on a screen that looks like the VAT Return you send to the tax office.

No prior knowledge of accounting or computers is needed; the User's Guide takes you through how to use Instant Accounts on your computer and provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up your new accounting system.
 
Keeping track of your trading is easy because graphs, tables and built-in reports show at a glance where your money is coming from, going to and where it is right now. Instant Accounts is also fully compliant with the latest legislation.