Budgeting Software for Expat?

meggles

any suggestions for a budgetting software that can handle US & UK bank accounts, US investments, etc? I have several spreadsheets for all this, but would love a software program to do much of this automatically.

Microsoft Money
Personal Accountz
Quicken?

Anything else I should be looking at?

Thank you!

PROLIANT

meggles wrote: »

Microsoft Money
Thank you!

Microsoft Money

meggles

thanks- which version? amazon.co.uk has several versions.

PROLIANT

meggles wrote: »

thanks- which version? amazon.co.uk has several versions.

Go for the latest version, you can download a trial evaluation from microsoft to try before you buy.

meggles

i've looked for trial version- but it's only for US version. is it critical that i get UK version?

Money 2003 is the latest I see on amazon.co.uk- but it's £150. quite a bit higher than anything else?

pete80

Hi Meggles,

I just loaded the trial for Mcrosoft Money Home and Business (US) and have US and UK savings accounts entered, also have an Investment Trust which has a standard UK share symbol and also 4 UK Unit trusts.
US stocks and mutual funds are of course supported.

The 4 UK Unit trusts took a little longer to set up and only update once a day but you need to put the GB00 in front of the Unit trust codes provided by some discount brokers.

Anyway, all seems to be working okay with the package but I didn't check if it updates the currency rates automatically. I just planned to do this once a month.

meggles

thanks everyone!