Money in lots of accounts... How do you keep track?!

fozziebeartoo

Thank you for that, much appreciated - will have a read!


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evenasus wrote: »

I managed to get Quicken 2001 to run on Windows 7 by installing as administrator.

Have a read of this, you might get it to work by trying what is suggested. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/quicken-2000-and-windows-7-64-bit/ea6ada86-9bb3-4d8b-9bb4-cd362e55ed19

buffman

You can't beat Quicken. Such a shame that they withdrew from the UK. Nothing else comes close. I have nearly 20 years of back data. Quicken 2004 (the last UK edition) runs perfectly on Windows 7. Simply input the disc and install in Compatibilty Mode (I would recommend choosing Windows XP SP2). Have not tried to install on a Windows 8 computer but I assume (and hope!) the same applies.

innovate

buffman wrote: »

You can't beat Quicken.

Rubbish. As much as Quicken works for you, MS money works for me! and one of the more recent money managers that have been mentioned will be working just fine for people who only recently started using personal financial management software.

Gromitt

innovate wrote: »

Rubbish. As much as Quicken works for you, MS money works for me!

I couldn't get on with Quicken, but Money dance works for me. Alas, the last decent version was released 3 years ago. Recent versions just pale in comparison.

JustAnotherSaver

I'm wondering - there's a lot of Quicken mentions in here.

What does it give you that i can't use Excel to do? Which is what i currently use.

buffman

innovate wrote: »

Rubbish. As much as Quicken works for you, MS money works for me! and one of the more recent money managers that have been mentioned will be working just fine for people who only recently started using personal financial management software.

I am not critisising any personal financial management software. Before using Quicken 20 years ago, I tried Microsoft Money and I also tried it again in 2005 after Quicken quit the UK. I felt that it had significantly less functionality than Quicken for what I require. I am able to successfully manage multiple savings/curent accounts (20+) in more than one currency and a number of equity/fund portfolios along with tracking my spending habbits with Quicken.

junglejame911

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

I'm wondering - there's a lot of Quicken mentions in here.

What does it give you that i can't use Excel to do? Which is what i currently use.

My thoughts exactly. Why pay for extra software to essentially count your money?

Hominu

junglejame911 wrote: »

My thoughts exactly. Why pay for extra software to essentially count your money?

It's not that excel can't do anything that packages such as Quicken, MSMoney, or Moneydance can do, its that it can do it easier. For example, "Graph my expenditure over the past 12 months compared to my income" is a popular report in most such software, plus you have the ability to automatically download share prices, graph the performance and show you the current net worth of such shares. They also show you both sides of a transaction easily, so a payment to a credit card will show you both the credit and the debit.

evenasus

junglejame911 wrote: »

My thoughts exactly. Why pay for extra software to essentially count your money?

I've just had a look at my Quicken and we've (husband & myself) had 75 bank/building society savings accounts between us since 1994.

At the moment we have 22 savings accounts on the go.
At the click of the mouse, I can view any of the transactions/deposits/withdrawals/transfers/closures/interest payments/tax paid, whether dead or alive accounts made since 1994.

IronWolf

How do Quicken and MS Money work with accounts that require these stupid secure keys to get onto online banking?