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- From: libby@berg.asd.sgi.com (Jeff Libby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Quicken vs Managing Your Money
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:15:36 GMT
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- In <1ij9guINN6b8@hp-col.col.hp.com> dana@col.hp.com (Dana Johnsonx2136) writes:
-
- >How do Quicken and MYM handle rolling over from one year to the next? I have
- >been using MacMoney which keeps individual years in different databases. This
- >makes reconciling accounts cumbersome at the beginning of a year.
-
- This is one place where I think that Dollars & Sense has clearly the
- best approach (of the alternatives that I've seen). It keeps up to 2
- full years of data in the database. So when you start a new year in
- January of 1993, you are throwing out (archiving, actually) the data
- from 1991. You keep your 1992 data and add the 1993 data through
- 1993.
-
- This has a couple of benefits.
-
- -- You can continually update last year's data. In my case, I get
- various statements and stuff that affect last year's taxes
- through the first 3 months or more of a new year.
-
- -- You can look at last year's data without having to close your
- current year's file and open the previous year's file. I
- found that I did this quite often, maybe because it was so
- easy.
-
- I've recently switched over to MYM because I like its integrated
- investment tracking. But I do wish it kept two years of data
- available, like Dollars & Sense.
-
- --
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- Jeff Libby
- Silicon Graphics
- libby@asd.sgi.com
-