Could Excel be used as accounting software?

If so, any tutorials. (I don't want to learn or bky quick books) I just want to keep tabs on business expenses and I would rather not do it on paper.

Theoretically yes but practically no.
There a lot of other softwares particularly databases that could do a
lot than Excel.
These include SAP,Oracle etc.,

Are you saying that excel would not suffice for keeping tabs on business
expenses? I am not talking about journal entries etc although that it would
be possible as well for a small company. Come on, did it sound as though the
OP was asking on behalf of a plus 1000 employee company? If not there are
other software reasonably priced software like Peachtree or QuickBooks, even
MS has Small Business Accounting and a step higher Great Plains etc

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Portland, Oregon




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> Theoretically yes but practically no.
> There a lot of other softwares particularly databases that could do a
> lot than Excel.
> These include SAP,Oracle etc.,
>

Per Freddy_Kruger:
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>If so, any tutorials. (I don't want to learn or bky quick books) I just
>want to keep tabs on business expenses and I would rather not do it on
>paper.

Yes, and there are probably some templates out there that you could use.

But my bet is that the money spent on QuickBooks would be wisely spent. It does
so many things....
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>> I just want to keep tabs on business expenses
If all you want to do is make a list of what comes in and what goes out and
where it went, yes, that's easy enough. Just make a list like you would on
paper and type in information.

>> If so, any tutorials. (I don't want to learn or bky quick books)
I suspect you really want to sort and sift, put into columns and categories,
and do calculations and such. This is much more than simply making a list.
You will put much more time and effort - all of which equals money to a
business man - in making Excel do what PeachTree or QuickBooks already does.

IMHO
Ed

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