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You'll find most accountants have their own software expectations, i.e: saying to an accountant "you must use Freeagent" won't work, they dictate the software and workflows, not you. If you expect to switch accountants, expect to switch software, and so the ability to export data is what matters (and all software will support that).

[simontrl]

Makes sense but I already have several years of experience using Freeagent by myself, and there's lots of accountants that advertise they use Freeagent too. If I don't need a specialist accountant, finding one that uses Freeagent seems a good idea and if it doesn't work out (you hear lots of horror stories) I can easily switch without the upheaval of learning new software.