Are Quicken MAC 2018 files readable by or convertible to Quickbooks.

Richard255

My accountant only uses Quickbooks and I have Quicken 2018. Saving readable files would save a lot of paper.

UKR

For doing taxes, nothing in Quicken Mac can be converted to Quickbooks, because nothing in there in your personal accounts is related to business transactions.

The only thing you can do is print your Quicken Mac reports to PDF files and email those to your accountant.
Or you can try to sweet-talk your accountant into purchasing, installing and learning how to use Quicken Mac. But, it's not recommended to try and share or remotely access your Quicken data file across a network.

volvogirl

QuickBooks can only convert Quicken for Windows files. If you are a Quicken for Mac user, you will need to convert to a Quicken for Windows file before converting to QuickBooks. 

https://www.quicken.com/support/convert-quicken-windows-data-quickbooks-data 

Richard255

That is all helpful. I decided to save the register files as .cvs and open them in Excel. I put them on a disk and sent it to the accountant. His problem, but he gets paid for it. Thanks.

UKR

For doing taxes, nothing in Quicken Mac can be converted to Quickbooks, because nothing in there in your personal accounts is related to business transactions.

The only thing you can do is print your Quicken Mac reports to PDF files and email those to your accountant.
Or you can try to sweet-talk your accountant into purchasing, installing and learning how to use Quicken Mac. But, it's not recommended to try and share or remotely access your Quicken data file across a network.

volvogirl

QuickBooks can only convert Quicken for Windows files. If you are a Quicken for Mac user, you will need to convert to a Quicken for Windows file before converting to QuickBooks. 

https://www.quicken.com/support/convert-quicken-windows-data-quickbooks-data 

jacobs

Hmmm, interesting @volvogirl…

@Richard255 The export from Quicken Mac to Quicken Windows normally isn't recommended, because Quicken Windows can't import investment transactions. But the data is in the file, because Quicken Mac users sometimes, as a last resort for a damaged file, will export to Quicken Windows format and then re-import that into a new Quicken Mac file. So it's possible you could export to Quicken Windows format, and send that to your accountant to try importing directly into Quickbooks -- but you'd have no idea if it all worked cleanly and accurately, and that would make me a bit nervous.

If you don't run a business and have all your business expenses in Quicken, I'd think you'd be better off handing your accountant printed versions of whatever reports he needs from Quicken. Personally, I enter my W-2 and 1099 data for my taxes from the forms, not from Quicken, so it really depends how you use Quicken if there's much data you need from Quicken to do your taxes. 

Richard255

That is all helpful. I decided to save the register files as .cvs and open them in Excel. I put them on a disk and sent it to the accountant. His problem, but he gets paid for it. Thanks.