How to Convert Microsoft Small Business Accounting Files

Microsoft Small Business Accounting was discontinued in 2009. After it was discontinued, the makers of Quickbooks made a conversion tool that is free to use. This tool helps people who used Small Business Accounting convert their files to the Quickbooks program.

Quickbook files are easily converted to a number of other accounting programs. All that you need is Quickbooks.

1. Go to the Quickbooks conversion tool web page. Fill in all the information that is required in the "download the tool" section and click the button that says "submit". Double-click on the file that has just been downloaded and follow the instructions that appear on the screen to install the tool completely.


2. Start up Microsoft Small Business Accounting (SBA). Verify that all of the information is accurate and current. Erase all records that have been duplicated. Also, remove any characters that are non-English from account names. Close Small Business Accounting. Create a backup copy on the file. You can do this by finding the file in the folder located on the hard drive. Copy this to a different location. 


3. Start up the Quickbooks conversion tool from the "start" menu. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen to convert the Microsoft SBA file to a Quickbooks file. Go through this process repeatedly for each file that you want to convert.


4. Locate the file that you just converted in Quickbooks and open it. Verify that all of your information was correctly converted. If any type of errors occured, open up the origional Small Business Accounting file and fix any problems that ocurred.