02-05-2017, 11:41 PM
The payroll thing is an issue. No way it is "easy." I would urge you to locate a service. Payroll services are quite inexpensive. The key is that they keep up on tax and benefit issues and changes made by federal, state, and local governments. Their systems make it cheap to do.
Intuit is taking the Adobe path to make Quickbooks a subscription. You can still get a perpetual license which you can search for. (The current version needs at least Yosemite.) Mac Quickbooks is a fine program and interchangeable with PC versions. But it is likely overkill for your needs. (Quickbooks is great if you need to invoice customers, track invoices, maintain financials, deal with lots of expenses of different sorts. Depositing donations, then writing 6 checks is an easy task for Quicken.)
Since it is established already on Quickbooks, it might be straightforward, but you would be inheriting any "chart of account" assumptions made by your predecessors. If you have any doubts, clean up may be more work that starting over.
Intuit is taking the Adobe path to make Quickbooks a subscription. You can still get a perpetual license which you can search for. (The current version needs at least Yosemite.) Mac Quickbooks is a fine program and interchangeable with PC versions. But it is likely overkill for your needs. (Quickbooks is great if you need to invoice customers, track invoices, maintain financials, deal with lots of expenses of different sorts. Depositing donations, then writing 6 checks is an easy task for Quicken.)
Since it is established already on Quickbooks, it might be straightforward, but you would be inheriting any "chart of account" assumptions made by your predecessors. If you have any doubts, clean up may be more work that starting over.