November 2005
Beginner
428 pages
10h 2m
English
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Introduction
Like thousands of other people, you hope Quicken can help you control your mountains of financial information—credit cards, tax deductions, loans, retirement plans, and assets. You want a program that gives you an overview of your financial health, while sparing you the time and tedium of balancing your checkbook and tracking every investment by hand. As you’ll discover in this book, Quicken can do all that and more. Its hundreds of features share one common purpose: to help you manage your personal finances. If you have trouble remembering to transfer extra cash into higher-interest-rate savings, for example, Quicken can remind you. If budgets are your downfall, Quicken can take your financial goals and help you build a budget to achieve them.
Quicken isn’t hard to learn. Using the program as an electronic checkbook isn’t much different from recording checks and deposits in a paper register. Features and techniques that you’re familiar with from other programs work just as well in Quicken, including windows, dialog boxes, drop-down menus, and keyboard shortcuts. Best of all, once you enter a bit of financial information into Quicken—like a check, deposit, credit card transaction, or loan payment—you never have to type it again. Quicken can use that information over and over to calculate things like budget averages, debt balances, or even your ...
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