Best Personal Finance Program
- Thread starter neil3k
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Pen, paper and calculator. I'm not being facetious, it works. Also Excel.
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I use Excel. I can't honestly say it's the best thing out there, but I'm not sure how it can be improved upon the way I use it.
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Microsoft Money since 1999 - though now dropped by MS (terrible decision).
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I'm still using MS Money 2006 and actually, it's rather good, so long as you take the time to put in all the transaction information etc.
The budgets and reports especially are useful - so i can identify key areas where i'm spending too much and can see how much i've cut down.
The budgets and reports especially are useful - so i can identify key areas where i'm spending too much and can see how much i've cut down.
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I'm still using MS Money 2001, does everything I need it to.
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acemoney is pretty decent, take a look at it.
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Excel.
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Best (free) one I found is "Money Manager Ex" by Codelathe.
One of the easiest to use is Quicken , I have a few versions but have used a very,very early version now for 15 years .It came on 2 floppy disks and was designed for Window95 . Still works perfectly on XP.You can set up any account , Bank ,Credit card ,Investment and it tracks all expenditure across the accounts with printouts.It has a calendar function ,see when your payments were made and has snapshots for payments ,expenditure etc.It will allow you to back up on floppy ,pendrive etc and takes up no room on your drive .I have 15 years worth of backups ie. 3 credit card accounts , 3 bank accounts and 1 investment account on a single floppy disk and it allows you to import and export your data .
Yes ,there are lots of other programs out there and better ones too , Money , MYOB ,Sage etc. But , Quicken does the job exceedingly well and very easily .
Yes ,there are lots of other programs out there and better ones too , Money , MYOB ,Sage etc. But , Quicken does the job exceedingly well and very easily .
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Quicken 2000 here. Don't get the latest version though because the product is no longer supported in the UK. 
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Still using Quicken and Checkfree here since version 1994. I still have all my transactions on disk from back then, too, which is very much like a journal. I can load up any year's data and see where I was and what I was doing back then. I'm currently up to Quicken 2009 version.