From QuickBooks to AccountsIQ

Your business has grown. You need deeper insights, faster processes and the ability to manage more complexity - without extra workarounds.

If you’ve outgrown QuickBooks, it’s time to upgrade to AccountsIQ: the finance management and accounting platform designed for ambitious, multi-entity organisations. Better begins now, with cloud-based software that scales with you.

AIQ vs QuickBooks

Here’s how we compare, feature by feature

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Discover our customers’ success

Trusted by 35,000 users in over 85 countries
Humentum

“AccountsIQ does everything we need and it’s an ideal fit for us as the next step up from QuickBooks. With QuickBooks, month-end could almost take the whole month! Now, we do it within five working days. Getting the results out quickly makes a big difference.”

Jocelyn Boughton
From
Humentum
Global Director, Finance & Administration
Thermatic Technical FM

"Running reports in AccountsIQ is quick and we've got the capability to do multi-dimensional reporting, which will be really valuable to us. I'd say it takes about one tenth of the time we're used to in Sage."

Natalie Hopkins
From
Thermatic Technical FM
Finance Director
IFX payments

"Starter systems like Sage and Xero don’t really meet the needs of a complex business. AccountsIQ is a proper accounting package. It’s Cloud-based, user-friendly and meets all the accounting needs of an international business like IFX.”

Steve Allen
From
IFX payments
Group Finance Director
Salamanca Group

“I’ve spent 20 years in finance and AccountsIQ is by far the best solution I’ve come across. Hands down beats the major players and has more functionality at a cost effective price. Wish I found this years ago.”

Lee Camp
From
Salamanca Group
Finance Director
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FAQs

How did Humentum reduce month-end time after moving from QuickBooks to AccountsIQ?
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In Humentum’s published testimonial, they said that on QuickBooks month-end could “almost take the whole month,” and that after moving to AccountsIQ they now complete month-end “within five working days.”

Read Humentum's full story with AccountsIQ.

How does reporting in AccountsIQ compare with QuickBooks?
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AccountsIQ is typically used when you need more structured reporting across entities and more ways to analyse performance. It supports a 3-level general ledger plus up to six BI (analysis) dimensions for tagging transactions, a large library of built-in reports with drill-down, dashboards for different roles, and live connections to Excel and Power BI via OData so reporting can refresh from system data instead of relying on manual exports.

When do you know it’s time to switch accounting software?
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It’s usually time to switch when the business has outgrown a single-entity setup and you’re relying on spreadsheets to pull group results together. Common signs include a slow month-end because reconciliations, uploads, and consolidations are manual; limited reporting by things like project, site, fund, or region; and processes such as approvals, allocations, and intercompany being handled through workarounds rather than cleanly in-system.

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