If you're interacting with financial professionals, accountants, etc., the expectation is that you're going to be using the Windows version. The Mac version is very definitely a 'lite' version of what people think of when they think of Quickbooks. If it's been fixed, kudos! It was on a 20-item list of enhancement requests I sent in probably 2012 that have seen no action at all since then, so I'm doubtful). This is as of my 2016 version which is where I last checked it. The fields have the same name, and the line-level detail cannot seem to be exported. QB for Mac just does not export its data nicely or completely (for example, there is a 'memo' field at the check level and also at the detail line level. exporting it to Excel to do further processing.). This 'sounds good.' But the Mac version of QB really has a lot of holes in it, particularly if your functions include analysis of the data in something other than QuickBooks (e.g. The alternative of course is to switch to the Mac version of QB and not have to do the PC emulation at all. This costs system resources, and will not be as fast and responsive as running it on a PC. But understand, that means you're supporting an entire Windows environment, on your Mac, so that when you're running QB, your computer is in some sense pretending to be a Windows PC. Things like Parallels, VMWare, Virtual Box, etc. Most responses are showing how she can continue using the same (Windows) version on a Mac, due to her presumed familiarity with the look and feel of the product. The original post indicated she was running QB on Windows currently and wanted to start using a Mac. It's a browser-based system, so you can run it on any platform. Quickbooks Online is an entirely different animal.

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