Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!soleil!hari From: hari@soleil.UUCP (Srihari Kotcherlakota) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Quicken and check-writing summary Summary: I use Quicken but the $10 Easy Cash Manager (Spinnaker) is sometimes better Message-ID: <718@soleil.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 89 17:29:04 GMT References: Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Somerville, NJ Lines: 33 Quicken Vs ECM: Quicken: Cost ~ $30 Advantages: Easy to use. Excellent to categorize expenses, Excellent reporting. Easy to modify data, easy to prepare budget. Disadvantages: Will handle only one account at a time:- no transfers between accounts are supported, Net worth (sum of assets of all accounts - sum of all liabilities of all accounts) is not reported, categories have to be defined for each account separately (although you can get around this by copying files in DOS) budget has no meaning unless a separate budget is made for each account. ECM: Advantages: Easy to use. All accounts are linked which means none of the disadvantages described above for Quicken exist. Disadvantages: Very poor in categorizing expenses. Poor reporting. Very slow since all accounts are handled simultaneously as data is entered. Bugs in deleting accounts cause erroneus reports and some arithmetic errors.