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Microsoft Money Essentials 2008

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The Microsoft legacy continues in the area of personal finances with Microsoft Money Essentials our "TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award" This program covers banking, investing, financial planning, and has a number of reports. At $ 19.99 it is quite a bargain. This election financial software package is comparable to our top pick in most functions and also seems to be a little more user friendly. However, Quicken offers more reports that a clearer and more complete picture of the overall financial status. Ease of Use / Install: Microsoft Money was easy to install and very easy to use. We noticed it was a little more of a polished surface in comparison to Quicken Starter Edition and Money Dance. The update process was simple, and money on a large site at a glance overview of your finances. Banking / invoices: Microsoft Money Essentials allows you to manage multiple accounts at multiple banks or cooperative banks. If your accounts are set up in the program, you can directly go to them and money, and * the electronic payments. * Additional fees for using Online Bill Pay services Reporting: Microsoft Money Essentials is a helpful section reporting, display charts, graphs and the like for the cash flow, assets, and investment reports. Financial Calculators: Microsoft Money Essentials connects to the Internet to a number of useful calculators, including loans, mortgages, refinancing and home equity calculator. For a more comprehensive financial planning section, insurance, debt reduction, retirement, college and planners, you can consider an upgrade to Money Plus Deluxe. Control Options: Microsoft Money Essentials allows you to categorize transactions tax deductible, and can export that data to the control software, as long as the control software reads the Tax Exchange Format (. Txf) files, such as H & R Block's TaxCut. If you have a Personal Finance Software that actually help you find deductions, consider Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe or Quicken Starter Edition is an alternative. Microsoft Money Plus and Quicken Deluxe Starter Edition will help you prints, where the money is just Essentials, you can categorize transactions deductible. Support / Documentation: Microsoft Money Essentials was a great help, tutorials and FAQs, but Microsoft charges extra for phone, e-mail and Live Chat Support. Archiving / security: You can search your files, and password protect your account, but the money Essentials does not have an archive function, not even Microsoft offers an online backup service like Quicken does. Personal Investing Microsoft Money Essentials works directly with a number of investments, including those caused by most banks or cooperative banks, so you can use all your online investment. They offer stock quotes, and the history of each stock projections for the next six months. Abstract: Once again, Microsoft has a very practical software package with Microsoft Money Essentials offer easy-to-use tools and a program for interaction with the Web, tons of information. The Bottom Line Microsoft Money Essentials is extremely user friendly and efficient, but limited financial reports. For detailed financial reports consider an upgrade to Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe, or try our Gold Award winner Quicken Starter Edition.
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