the big accounting software packages you need to know to get hired today

quickbooks, oracle and sap dominate the want ads.

after tabulating about 500 job listings for accountants, new research shows that quickbooks skills are most in demand today, followed by oracle and sap.

not listed here, of course, is excel, which is a prerequisite for nearly all open accounting jobs today, according to  softwareadvice.com/accounting.

in the charts below, the big pie chart in the middle ranks the overall most-popular software packages:

1. intuit: 27%
2. oracle: 19%
3. sap: 13%
4. microsoft: 8%
5. sage: 8%
6. adp: 3%
7. lawson: 2%

posted on november 29, 2010