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Old 01-28-2008, 10:12 AM   #1
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Use Microsoft Money, it is easy to use because it's made for regular people not computer whizzes. Its not very expensive(especially if you buy it with the other Microsoft programs exp. PowerPoint, word, publisher).
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Old 01-28-2008, 10:27 AM   #2
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i use microsoft money as well, it works well for my wife and I.
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I started using Quicken Premiere & Business 2008 last September. I also downloaded Microsoft Money for a trial but Quicken just seemed more intuitive (no pun intended). Now I have all my accounts maintained in Quicken and I have just started using their home inventory manager to keep a better track of my net worth.
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Do either of these(Money or Quicken) have options where you can make graphs to track your assets/liabilities/net worth? It's something I've tried to do with Gnucash, and all it offers (afaik), is bars.

Graphs just look better, especially when Net worth keeps going up a good amount .
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Do either of these(Money or Quicken) have options where you can make graphs to track your assets/liabilities/net worth? It's something I've tried to do with Gnucash, and all it offers (afaik), is bars.

Graphs just look better, especially when Net worth keeps going up a good amount .
Quicken offers a Net Worth graph that uses bars that can be granulated from printing a bar for every week to printing only a bar per year. It uses a green bar for assets and a blue bar for liabilities then draws a line with red dots for net worth (assets - liabilities). You can hover the mouse over any of the bars or the dots and it will tell you your asset, liability or net worth at that data point. It can also put the values into a tabulated data form that can be exported into excel at which point you can graph it any way you like. I hope this answered your question.

Here is what a monthly net worth statement looks like for the past year. I have removed the dollar value scales from the image to protect the innocent .
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I currently use Quicken 2007. I think it's just Quicken Basic but it already does everything I need.

See also this discussion thread:
http://www.wisebread.com/forums/pers...tware-797.html
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my hubby uses microsoft money. I just use Google spreadsheets, though I do have to manually put in formulas and create graphs. I like to keep it simple, though. So I just total up my networth and keep track of expenditures.
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Quicken offers a Net Worth graph that uses bars that can be granulated from printing a bar for every week to printing only a bar per year. It uses a green bar for assets and a blue bar for liabilities then draws a line with red dots for net worth (assets - liabilities). You can hover the mouse over any of the bars or the dots and it will tell you your asset, liability or net worth at that data point. It can also put the values into a tabulated data form that can be exported into excel at which point you can graph it any way you like. I hope this answered your question.

Here is what a monthly net worth statement looks like for the past year. I have removed the dollar value scales from the image to protect the innocent .
Thanks! I bolded that part cause it's awesome . That is pretty much exactly what I was lookin for.

Now to find it for a good price... Maybe an old version for cheap?!
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Now to find it for a good price... Maybe an old version for cheap?!
You can get Quicken 2008 Premier for $62 at Costco or for an extra $3 you get Quicken 2008 Home & Business. If you don't care about investment portfolio performance reports and strategies you can get away with getting Quicken 2008 Deluxe for $40 from Costco as well.

If you're looking to get Willmaker Plus as well, it's cheaper to get everything from Intuit directly as they bundle the two together for the retail price of Quicken alone.
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