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Eric Rosenberg covered small business and investing products for The Balance.

If you run a business, you absolutely must track your income and expenses.

Your business accounting is required for taxes, and putting in a little extra effort up front can save a ton of time and hassles when tax season rolls around.

Even more, accurately tracking expenses can help you lower your tax bill.

But most accounting software isnt cheap, and it can take a lot of work to learn how it all works.

Here are the best top accounting software options to choose from for your business.

Intuits Quickbooks is the 800-pound gorilla of the small business accounting world.

While it isnt perfect and isnt cheap, it is one of the most fully featured accounting software packages in existence.

Best Payroll Mac Versions Exist

Windows and Mac versions exist for the desktop, but Quickbooks is slowly working to push users into the cloud (subscription instead of one-time cost).

The Mac version does not have nearly the full feature set of the Windows or online version, so keep that in mind when choosing software for your business.

Because Quickbooks is so widely used, it is easy to find tutorials, guides, videos and other information on how it all works.

But the downside is that you need tutorials, guides and videos to understand how it works.

Intuits own help forum is often riddled with incorrect answers, so getting through a frustrating issue may take longer than you would hope.

But, at the end of the day, it is the best known and most popular accounting software for a reason: it works well for a wide range of businesses and business needs.

Quickbooks Online offers several versions ranging in cost from 15 for the self-employed version up to 70 per month for the Plus version.

Quickbooks started with desktop, but Xero was always cloud first.

Mac users who cant find what they need from Quickbooks for Windows were some of the earlier adopters of Xero, which includes 247 live chat support at no extra cost.

Xero is also huge on integrations, with more than 600 integrations to help business owners manage invoicing, inventory, payroll and much more.

One standout feature is the ability to track time and money spent on specific projects, so you dont let any dollars slip through the cracks.

Xero is designed for an array of businesses and offers a starter version for 9 per month.

Higher end premium versions include payroll and multi-currency support, with the Gusto full-service payroll version.

It costs 39 per month for the base and an additional 6 per person added.

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