Is Access reliable enough to use for profit and loss to the IRS?

[AlexL]

I have been using Access for over 20 years. I do my bookkeeping with it. Something is wrong. I do not think I am making an error. Could it be that sometimes Access is just not reliable? The profit and loss has been wrong all day long today. This is the first time ever. Could I be doing something wrong or could it be that it is broken. If it is broken how do I fix it?

[Micron]

If it's broken, you find out what is wrong/what changed and adapt. Access is a bit lacking in security compared to other apps but generally speaking, if there is something "wrong" when it worked for some time then it could be the introduction of a bug due to less than perfect releases of new versions. Sometimes new releases expose less than perfect code, which introduces failures to perform as expected, and that is on the code writer, not Access.

If you want a less general/ambiguous answer, you'd have to provide more information than "something is wrong". You always have the option to post a compacted and zipped db copy if you think it might help others to help you.

[Bulzie]

The profit and loss has been wrong all day long today.

Sounds like a data issue.