Microsoft Money - is a new version on the horizon for the UK?

Dove22

I've been using MS Money for a few years now and thought it was about time I upgraded it as there are some things I want to do that the current version doesn't seem to support. I've looked on the MS Money website (there only appears to be a US one) and it's promoting MS Money Plus Deluxe as the latest version, but only appears to be available in the US, which is not much use for UK taxes etc. Does anyone know if it will be released in the UK in the near future and how I can find out about it? Cheers in advance.

If not, does anyone have an answer to one of the things I find frustrating...
When I take stuff back to the shops for a refund, I enter the refund as income - what I'd like to be able to do is deduct it from the expense category - that way, at the end of the year when I run my report, the expenditure is accurate and I don't have to do a manual calculation. Any thoughts?

Lorian

I don't think there is.

I'm sure I enter refunds as a negative expense, but I'd need to be in front of money to know for sure. If the account is not balanced yet I usually manually adjust the expense.

superscaper

2005 is the latest/last UK version. There won't be any more (I've asked MS UK myself last year or so). You can get MS Office Accounting 2008 Express for the UK. Not sure how useful it'd be for home use though. http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/accountingexpress/FX101729681033.aspx

Personally I've started using www.wesabe.com which is an online accounting system. I'm not sure it'll be to everyone's taste and I'm sure the paranoid won't want to be uploading their statements to a 3rd party site which is fair enough. They're secure enough IMHO and are rapidly expanding their support for different banks etc even though they're USA based. I asked for them to add my CC company's site and they added it within 2 days.

Dove22

Thanks for your replies. I'm also looking at Personal Accountz and Business Accountz as an alternative, but not sure if they have all the functionality I want (i.e. working out incomes tax, CGT, mortgage interest, real-time stock market investments, currency conversion, etc). I have asked them to get back to me with my questions, unless anyone is already using it and can let me know?...