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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Quicken vs. Manage your Money
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.193526.1768@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 19:35:26 GMT
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- In article <C1DBw4.1K6@polstra.uucp> larryba@polstra.uucp (Larry Barello) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan22.173752.16323@ee.gatech.edu> austin@eecom.gatech.edu (Mark D. Austin) writes:
- >>>I was wondering if someone could suggest which package would be
- >>>better for home finances, including tracking my investments,
- >>>check writing etc.
- >
- >You might want to consider Microsoft Money as long as tracking investments
- >is not high on you priority list. It doesn't handle investments at all
- >without some major fooling around. However, it does handle checking and
- >other money managemnt stuff just fine and it is very easy to use. I have
- >been trying to use Quicken for Windows version 2.0 and gave up. I limit
- >it to calculating my investment performance - and that is suspect now
- >given the recent news traffic...
- >
- >Cheers!
- >--
- >Larry Barello uunet!polstra!larryba
-
- You might also check some freeware or shareware
- programs on the oakland server (a mirror site of
- SIMTEL-20 (ftp 141.210.10.117); a listing follows:
-
- amort11d.zip cgzex31a.zip econ.zip mkmst431.zip sprm24.zip
- amortz13.zip cgzlb31a.zip ecs11b.zip modfin91.zip st-bgt17.zip
- bam351.zip cgzpr31a.zip ezloan20.zip mortcal2.zip walst535.zip
- bondcalc.zip chekfree.arc fads2.zip pca71.arc xchk23.zip
- capgains.arc cio11.zip finan10.zip pcheck22.zip
- cashfl15.zip ckmstr31.zip heatloss.zip pfroi24.zip
- cgzdc31a.zip consol21.zip int201.zip rsa303h.zip
- cgzdm31a.zip ddmtg.zip mfswap12.arc sa251a.zip
-
- I like pfroi24 in particular. However, I'm not sure why
- the return-on-investment values it calculates for
- >1 period are still 2X greater than the real number...
- Does anybody here in this newsgroup have experience
- with v.2.4 or the newer versions (4.0, 5.0)? Are they
- worth the money ($29)?
-
- Tony
- tony2@cc.bellcore.com
-