Moneydance has been working out as my financial software. I’m still dealing with those interface quirks (hey Moneydance, you hiring?), but you figure them out and soon enough it just fades into the background.

It seems to be doing the job well enough.

Except… exporting.

This is the first year I have to file for my LLC, so since I tracked those expenses in Quicken I just exported a QIF and sent those to my accountant. Funny… QuickBooks doesn’t grok QIF. You’d think Intuit might recognize its own file format, but I guess not.

Let’s see… what can Moneydance export? Oh… QIF. They can also export in their own format as well as a simple tab-delimited, which is better than nothing and thus can go into Excel, but… that feels so flat. Especially when Moneydance can import OFX and OFC files… why can’t it also export those formats? I’m not sure if QuickBooks can import those either. Bottom line: I’d love a file format that my accountant can grok. 🙂

In the end tho, Moneydance’s reports came to the rescue. I created a detailed income & expense report, printed to PDF, and sent that to my accountant. Hardly ideal, but here we are.

Will have more in-depth talks with my accountant later about how we can come up with a better solution. 🙂