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From: nin15b0b@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Finance programs question
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.221407.21579@merrimack.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 22:14:07 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.210431.12867@webo.dg.com>
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA
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In article <1991Apr8.210431.12867@webo.dg.com>, dave@mystie.webo.dg.com (David Kopper) writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm looking for a finance program for my XEGS (64k) - with a
> Indus GT disk (and a PR connection with an epson printer...).
> 
> I'd like the program to be able to do the following:
>   Checking account
>   Several Savings accounts (three actually)
>   Credit card accounts (a couple) - where if I write a check
>    to pay one, I'd really like the payment shown in both the
>    checking account and the credit card account.
>   It'd be nice if it could print checks and mailing labels
>    (or at least have a way to export data to some other program
>    that could do this for me).
>   If I have to export the data (and can), what would be a good
>    program to print the checks/mailing labels from? AtariWriter?
>    What other word processors are there?
> 
> Is there such a program?
> 
> All I've seen the following names in Atari Explorer without
> descriptions:
>    Bookkeeper/Keypad
>    Home Accountant
>    Money Manager
>    Family Finance
>    Money Tools
>    Financial Cookbook - I'm guessing this is a program from
>     EA where you have a menu of a lot of financial problems
>     and you select which you need a solution for - it did things
>     like loan payments over X years and lots of other problems.
> 
> Will any of these programs do what I want?
> 
> 
>   Dave Kopper
> 
> Internet: dave@mystie.webo.dg.com
>       or: dave%dgc.mceo.dg.com@relay.cs.net
>    GEnie: D.Kopper
-- 
  The best I've seen and used (and it won't do everything you want) is
Mirco-check and its sister Micro-print (for printing checks) that was published
in Analog Computing.


David E. Sheafer

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