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- From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
- Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:00:28 GMT
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- Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:
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- > Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would use a computer to do Home
- >Finances. As Dave Barry said, you type in how much money you make and where
- >you spend it, and (stay with me on this!) it tells you how much money you
- >made and where you spent it. I use a calculator.
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- A calculator suffices for balancing your checkbook, but have you tried
- keeping a ledger of your assets and liabilities, your income and your
- expenses, and making the books balance each month? Every month was a
- terrible chore when I did this by hand. Now that I use Desktop Budget, I
- don't have to balance anything, and I can reconcile its records to external
- reality whenever I want.
-
- I'm not saying this is for everybody; obviously you have no use for it,
- Lloyd. But I for one want more complete and accurate records.
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- Jon Reid j-reid@uiuc.edu GEnie: THE.REIDS
- "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
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