If you want to work in the global accounting market from India, QuickBooks is fully accessible, you just need to point your career at international clients instead of domestic ones.
Tally is built for Indian businesses. It handles GST, TDS, and Indian accounting practices natively. Most Indian SMEs use it.
QuickBooks is built for global businesses. It dominates US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
So the choice really comes down to: do you want a domestic career or a global one?
Intuit officially discontinued QuickBooks in India. But QuickBooks remains the #1 accounting software used by US, UK, Canadian, and Australian businesses. And those businesses outsource billions of dollars of bookkeeping work to India.
So Indian accountants learn QuickBooks not to use it for Indian books, but to work on the books of foreign clients.
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