About Quicken for Farm Financial Records
About Quicken
Quicken's checkbook register makes for a familiar environment to begin computerized recordkeeping. Although Quicken includes only home and general business income and expense categories, farm income and expense categories are easily added. Import options allow you to add a farm category list created at Oklahoma State University that matches the tax Schedule F, minimizing the effort required to develop a beginning chart of accounts.
Online Course
Quicken for Farm & Ranch Financial Record Keeping
This course leads you through hands-on sessions to develop a simple set of financial records and reports using Quicken. Exercises based on scenarios from a case farm allow you to practice many of the steps that you might use to keep records on your farm or ranch.
Quicken is a popular commercial record-keeping package that is
User Friendly
Quicken is easy for people unfamiliar with accounting terms to use, making it a good place to start when changing from a hand-kept cash accounting system to computerized records.
Readily Available
Available at different monthly subscription tiers.
Flexible & Widely Used
Allows record-keeping for a wide variety of agricultural and non-ag business enterprises, as well as family living expenses. Users can compare notes with neighbors on its application and use.