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- From: Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter)
- Subject: Re: Home budgeting program requested!
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:20:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <19102@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Jon Reid writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <C04v8t.C26@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- > Posted: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:00:2
- >
- > Org. : University of Illinois at Urbana
- >
- > Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:
- >
- > > 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.
- >
- > 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.
- > --
- > 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."
-
- (Remember, this is all Personal Opinion)
- Yes, I do all that, and more, in my consulting business. I use a
- spreadsheet to do it. Why? Because packaged programs never seem to suit my
- needs (Which seem to change every month).
- This is the classic argument of buying vs building. If you do it
- yourself: 1. You know exactly what the program does, 2. it does exactly what
- you want it to , and 3. if it doesn't, you can change it.
- In the Early Years of personal computing, just about everyone wrote their
- own programs. Now, nobody does. I can whip up an elementary Home Budget on a
- spreadsheet in about 10 minutes. Why should I buy a package?
-
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