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From: albert@endor.uucp (David Albert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Quicken Not Very Good
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Date: 18 Feb 91 13:16:30 GMT
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Reply-To: albert@endor.UUCP (David Albert)
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singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>Has anybody had either good or poor experience with Quicken3? It may be fine
>for writing checks, especially for a small business, but for keeping track of
>assets, I have found it to be obscure, clumsy, and even to mess up things.

Quicken 4.0 is much better at keeping track of certain types of assets
than was Quicken 3.  It has a whole subsystem for stocks and mutual funds.
Even so, there are some things it won't do and a few bugs in some of the
reports.  It isn't set up to handle short sales very well, or options at all
(although they can be treated as stocks).  The income reports seem to be
correct, but the Net Worth report sometimes makes bizzare caluculations of
some securities while getting the others correct.  I can't figure it out.
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