Every private individual in the US has to file his or her own tax returns. As a result, most affluent Americans have accountants, even if they don’t own their own business and especially if they do. Money, Microsoft’s finance organiser, is a glorified interactive account sheet combined with a task scheduler and has garnered enormous popularity in the US of A among people who are forced to do their own number-crunching. Rivalled mainly by Intuit’s popular Quicken software, it’s also become a long standing friend to European bean counters, and this year’s edition looks set to win yet more fiscal friends. There are actually three ...  Read the complete review

I am currently using Quicken Deluxe 1998. I started out with a free magazine mount giveaway Quicken 5 and registered it and the nice people at Intuit software sent me a free upgrade (Quicken Deluxe 98)to take care of potential Y2k problems. So it`s not cost me a penny, and I use it on a daily basis to keep track of all my accounts. This is a very user friendly product and it makes keeping track of your finances a cinch. all direct debits are automatically entered for you and a reminder window pops up when a bill is due. You can also produce graphs of income/expenditure do financial forecasts, calculate interest and lots more. This is one of the most ...  Read the complete review

A friend gave me a full version of Money 1998 so I gave it a trial and like it. So I went out and bought Money 2000. It is simple to use and fast, because it remembers a lot of the detail of the kinds of things that you do so that filling in transaction is quick (e.g. it remembers that credit card charges at "Sainsburys" are usually for "Food"-"Groceries", though you can easily override this when you bought somethng else). It picks up my latest bank statement straight from my online bank and enters everything directly into Money (and with reasonable accuracy matches transactions with those I've already entered ...  Read the complete review