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From: cac@druco.ATT.COM (Curtis A. Conkey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Financial Software: Managing Your Money or Quicken?
Message-ID: <4604@druco.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 16:50:43 GMT
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Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <7184@shlump.nac.dec.com<, mattioli@TOOK.DEC.COM (John R. Mattioli) says:
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< In article <4749@drutx.ATT.COM<, rlp@drutx.ATT.COM (Bob Prehn (@ The Right Choice)) writes...
<<In article <7122@shlump.nac.dec.com<, granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) writes:
<<< I have pretty much decided to manage my checkbook, budget, investment
<<< tracking, etc on my PC.  The question is which software package to buy. 
<<< I've narrowed it down to Quicken V3 and [Andrew Tobias'] Managing Your
<<< Money V6 (MYM), but I'm still in a quandry.
<< 

I used MYM for 1 1/2 years and found it to be an excellent program for
giving histories, budget info, etc.

However, I eventually stopped using it because I found it more time consuming 
and trouble to enter all my checks into the program than to just get out 
the calculator and balance the checkbook on paper. I must admit that it 
was rather interesting to see all those fancy reports on how I spent my money 
but in the final analysis it didn't effect my spending patterns at all. 
So from that point of view it wasn't doing me any good to go to all the effort 
to enter in hundreds of checks just to get some nice looking report back on 
where my money was going. In my family if the kids need shoes,
they need shoes and it doesn't matter if the Kids Shoes budget is empty - the
money just comes from somewhere else.

Just another point of view on Check Balancing programs.

Curtis Conkey
AT&T Bell Labs
Denver, Col
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