Microsoft Money 2001 Financial Suite

Money 2001 is the latest incarnation of Microsoft's money management software. It comes in three versions: Standard, Financial Suite and Business and Personal, each having slightly more features than the previous one. The basic "Standard" version allows the user to keep up to date records of all their accounts (current/credit/debit cards... whatever), to organise regular bills and deposits and to keep a track on spending within a preset budget. If your bank has an online presence then you may even be able to directly download statements into Money. Current examples of banks supported include Nationwide, NatWest, Woolwich, Barclays and The Royal ...  Read the complete review

I've had every version of Money since 1998 and it continues to improve. This version will even track your air miles! Most useful though, as I've not used it before, is the budgeting function. It takes a while to get used to and set up but once you've got it working can really help to show you how well you're spending and saving in particular categories. What makes it even better is if you get bar graphs on the money homepage stating how well you're doing against budget on your chosen categories. Very useful, if like me, you keep using 1-Click! There are lots and lots of options and on each subsequent upgrade of Money I've got used to more of them. ...  Read the complete review

Microsoft Money Financial Suite 2001 This 2001 Version of Microsoft’s personal finance is an excellent example to prove that Microsoft have really improved since the last version. It is a much better package. There is now improved documentation and support, and this is still an important product for the computer beginner and expert. Money Financial Suite offers an extensive range of tools for keeping account of just about anything you can imagine! It manages debt, cash flow, investments and ISAs while allowing a glimpse of the future with what if scenarios. If your bank or building society has online banking, then this can be downloaded straight into ...  Read the complete review

This is really useful product to have if you have a number of bank accounts, credit cards, savings accounts and/or stocks and shares account. It's far easier using this than searching through all your paper statements before making decisions. It's not a perfect product, but I would say it is worth the money (and it takes a lot for me to say that considering I'm far from being a Microsoft fan and I practicly never boot my computer to Windows and use Linux most of the time). There has been problems with it since it was launched, and I havn't been impressed with the amount of time it is taking Microsoft to sort it out. The software will ...  Read the complete review