Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!midas!copper!jackd From: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: personal finance packages Message-ID: <2669@copper.SDP.TEK.COM> Date: 12 Dec 88 04:16:53 GMT References: Reply-To: jackd@copper.SDP.TEK.COM (Jack Decker) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 19 In article sarrel@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Marc Sarrel) writes: > >As far as I can find out, there are several packages that might do the >job. They are: Dollars & Sense, MacinTax, MacMoney, MarketPro (might >be too {much,specialized}), and Quicken(?). Are there any others that >I should consider? What do people think of the above programs? Any >thoughts, experiences and/or recomendations would be appreciated. As far as personal finance packages that manage portfolios go, Managing Your Money is the one to beat. MacMoney, the one I use, is OK for accounting but they seem to be falling behind the power curve in adding new features such as portfolio and tax handling. One can work around some of these limitations by exporting to Excel and MacinTax, but if there was a conversion utility from MacMoney to MYM, I'd change in a minute . . . MYM, on the other hand, has all of this now and they seem committed to improving the product. (2.0 just came out.) The only drawback is price: MYM is about twice as expensive as MacMoney.