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"More than 90% of small business owners prefer to use pen and paper than a computer to do accounting." Uh, where does that come from? I have been running my ow
by gregpilling 16y ago
"More than 90% of small business owners prefer to use pen and paper than a computer to do accounting."
Uh, where does that come from? I have been running my own small businesses for 20 years and I have used a PC for accounting the whole time. I meet regularly with a group of small business owners and everyone of them uses a PC too. I would love to see the source of this idea.
- diego_moita 16y agoI read it on Business Week magazine 4 years ago. There was an article about Microsoft releasing their accounting software as part of Office. I suspect that you and your group of business owners might be different than the average. When the magazine mentioned small business owners they probably included a lot of non-computer savvy people: hairdressers, small farmers, pipe-fitters, etc.
- gregpilling 16y agoThe census site says there are almost 6 million small companies with employees http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html and this article says that QuickBooks has 3 million customers http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_36/b3949090_mz063.htm http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_36/b3949090_... . They would have a higher penetration if it was better software (it sucks to be a 20+ person company manufacturing with it, and don't even think about multiple warehouses) I think that 90% figure is a old wives tale, much like the nonsense quote that 90% of businesses fail in 5 years - see http://smallbiztrends.com/2008/04/startup-failure-rates.html http://smallbiztrends.com/2008/04/startup-failure-rates.html . Sorry for the over zealous response, but this happens to be a sore subject for me.