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Brand: Intuit EAN: 0028287005655 Edition: Home & Business Format: CD-ROM Label: Intuit Manufacturer: Intuit Platform: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 95 Publisher: Intuit Release Date: August 26, 2001 Studio: Intuit Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Whether planning a retirement strategy or just balancing a checkbook, it can be tough to deal with financial data sensibly and securely. Quicken 2002 Home & Business helps new and upgrading users devise the best arrangements for their information and plan for the future. The program's Web-page-based tracking system (which integrates Internet Explorer thoroughly) is simple, customizable, and easy on the eyes. Installing the upgrade is practically transparent, and new users will only have to pay attention for a few minutes before taking a quick coffee break and letting the computer do the work. Data entry is painless now that nearly every major bank and investment house has online information access, though this can be moderately tricky to implement, depending on the business in question. Those who are a bit more daring can branch out from basic data maintenance and ask the onboard experts for advice on debt reduction, college payment, and many other common financial milestones. The program also includes information and guidance on starting and running a business, including helpful tax information. Links to helpful online services abound--though they're incomplete, they're a good start--and users should be able to find information on just about any topic they need. Upgraders will find the 2002 version a bit slicker and better suited to Web transactions, but little is otherwise different. Those shifting from other packages or new to personal financial management software will have a short but steep learning curve. Quicken 2002 Home & Business also lets users create customizable estimates and invoices, manage business taxes, and track accounts payable and receivable. This version also lets managers and employees track jobs, projects, and customer payments. Will Quicken make up for sloppy budgeting, bad investment advice, or the heartbreak of tax day? No, but it will help users committed to financial responsibility achieve their goals without going crazy, and that's more than enough. --Rob Lightner Amazon.com Product Description: Quicken 2002 Home & Business includes all the business features you need with the ease you want. Because it's from Quicken, Home & Business provides familiar, user-friendly approaches to managing your business finances. It also includes the latest features of Quicken 2002 Deluxe to help you manage your personal finances easily. Home & Business can help you handle many aspects of your business finances. Create customizable estimates and invoices effortlessly with onscreen editing. Utilize the user-friendly approaches of Quicken to help you manage your business accounts. Quickly balance your checkbook and reconcile your statements. Get a quick overview of your business on one screen. See the financial status of your business and check your unpaid invoices all in one place. With Home & Business you can monitor invoices and upcoming bills. Set up account receivables and payables so it's easier to track your customer invoices and bills from vendors. More accurately track your finances using reports and graphs, and track multiple projects at once, including all the estimates, invoices, and payments. Also simplify your business taxes by tracking expenses and assigning categories such as Schedule C. The Quicken 2002 Deluxe features will help you automatically categorize your expenses, reconcile your downloaded statements, set up accounts and bills faster, analyze your portfolio to see where you stand, and much more. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Who's in control here? Quicken or You?I've been using Quicken since the late 80's and was always a big fan of Intuit's products until this version. While the program offers all the essentials that other programs like Peachtree offer it is constantly trying to up sell you to other Quicken (Intuit) products and services. A major drawback to this program is how it prints invoices and statements. If you want to send your customer a nice PDF of your statement or invoice too bad you can't. If you want to send it via e-mail it has ... Read More Rating:  - Great Financial SoftwareQuicken manages our life, and by tracking where we spend and save, we know where to go on vacation. We believe this beats Money. And any version 2000 and up is compatible with websites. Rating:  - Terribly Buggy and Hard to UseI don't know how Quicken ever became the leading personal finance program with a program this hard to understand and with clear bugs (atleast on Windows XP). I'm GREAT with computers, but this program constantly stumps me with an interface that is FAR from intuitive. What's worse, I suddenly experienced a serious bug in the program that wiped out my customer list! Quicken does NOT OFFER ANY FREE SUPPORT, EVEN IN SITUATIONS WHERE THERE IS A BUG IN THE PROGRAM. And the online chat support ... Read More Rating: - very, very difficultI used one of the very first Quicken products, and was thrilled and delighted at the user frendly product. Im sorry to say that this product is very fustrating to use. I have spent the last three days trying to figure out what I thought were very simple tasks, for example imputting accounts payable, which I still have not figured out. I plan on returning this product and I will never purchase a Quicken product again. Rating: - AmateurishWhy I keep wasting my money on Quicken, I will never know. I had the Home & Business before and didn't like it then. I hoped it would be better this time even though the reviews here were not very good on it. Quicken should be called Home Plus, not Home & Business. It may be great for personal bookkeeping, but it doens't cut it for a business. It appears to be written for people who know nothing about accounting and don't want to learn anything about accounting. It you want a good accounting ... Read More |
