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Tarfumes.com - Quicken Premier 2006 [Old Version]
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List Price: $79.99
Our Price: $29.99
Your Save: $ 50.00 ( 63% )
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Manufacturer: Intuit
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Intuit
EAN: 0028287011069
Feature: Comprehensive personal financial management software
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Intuit
Manufacturer: Intuit
Model: 283652
Platform: Windows 98
Publisher: Intuit
Studio: Intuit
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Features
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Comprehensive personal financial management software
Optimize investments and maximize return; receive investment alerts
Monitor spending with quick reports, charts, and graphs; stay on budget
Find ways to save and invest; optimize returns and avoid April 15th surprises
Investment-management tools for defining goals and balancing portfolio
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Editorial Reviews:
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Quicken Premier 2006 helps you increase your net worth and achieve your goals. It contains all the powerful tools included in Quicken Basic and Deluxe, plus a full set of tools designed to help you improve your financial standings. Monitor your net worth, optimize your investments and save time on taxes. Track all your accounts and investments -- stocks, bonds, mutual funds, IRAs and more -- from one place. Manage your holdings without having to enter every historical transaction Stay on top of your portfolio, with with up-to-the-minute information from your brokerage and 401(k) provider Maximize earnings while minimizing impact, by creating (and following) a customized budget Create plans to reduce your debt, forecast your cash flow, and plan for large future expenses like tuiton and home ownership Track checking, savings, and credit card transactions in one place Reconcile bank statements and balance your checkbook in just a few minutes Categorize your expenses automatically, for easier management Manage your cash flow, by always knowing what transactions are coming -- giving you insight on how much to save or spend Download bank or credit card information, and pay bills online by connecting to your bank and credit card sites Transfer data into TurboTax Save reports as PDF files
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Customer Rating:
Summary: 2006 premier proves usefull
Comment: I have been using the 2006 Premier purchased in late 2006. As you might expect you must install the disk mushware and then register the product. Then you get to the "update check" where my dial-up must download for hours the latest edition available for what was paid for. I do not know the history of Intuit, but I think it is comparable to the biggies in that the proliferation of product is no reflection on the evolution of quality. I mean I've trained my WIN95 machine to do things and would never dare to update fearing the demolition of the system.
Quicken does some things very well. I have only one preferred stock in my portfolio so no problem. I could never set up a corporate bond in microsoft and Quicken maintains the tradition. You must sort of push the transactions along manually. Quicken has a "Help". In addition, I purchased 2 books that allegedly fill the chasm of no support. Forget it. One book in its umpteenth edition apparently assumes the knowledge of the previous tomes. I think the umpteenth and one edition will review the currant updates and promises.
Quicken is a great help for portfolio management and I know people using the accounting software for a long time. My biggest beef is the inability to print a list of translations. When monitoring an account over a year with hundreds of various transactions. looking at a few through a narrow window is nonsense. The list of accounts does not go away no matter what you want to do. When looking at my checking account transactions, I doubt that 5% of the entire screen is work space for me. Like 'My Yahoo' the company promos can not go away. Carefully consider that Yahoo is FREE.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quicken - Don't Do It!
Comment: I hate to come down so hard on a program that is so widely used, but my experience with Quicken has been awful. At first I thought it was because I was simply used to other (easier to use) money programs. But I have suffered with Quicken for three years now and I am giving up and moving on.
The top three problems with Quicken:
1. Typing-in the date of a new year (for example moving from 2006 to 2007) automatically starts the new year and silently wipes out all cleared transactions for the previous year. This alone makes this (or any program) unusable. The one thing that no program can ever do is silently delete massive amounts of data without a confirmation, backup or even telling you it is happening. Because it is silent, you exit the program normally, create a back-up of the session and, in the process, overwrite your previous back-up. You lose all of your history with no way to recover it.
2. Reports seem flexible at first, but flexibility brings complexity. The problem is, there is no way to browse categories (their name for where you spend your money) and see a quick summary. You have to run a report every time you want to view an account or category. You can create them and save them, making it relatively easy to rerun them, but you have to rerun them. You can't simply browse and see the status of categories (how much did I spend on gas? food? postage? Christmas? etc.) nor can you quickly see which have had activity or not this month (handy for seeing if you forgot to pay a bill).
3. Creating split transactions is harder than it needs or ought to be - it is a click machine. The number of steps (or clicks) required to do simple things doesn't seem so bad at first. But once you start entering a list of transactions, you find it to be onerous. If a split is the same over and over, that's easy. If it changes each time you visit a store (like, say, Costco), it is a pain.
I am not a novice user. I have used personal computers since the early 80's for business and pleasure. No program has caused me the irritation and frustration that Quicken has. I have worked extensively with their customer support and they can't recover my data.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Review of Quicken 2006
Comment: Easy to install, easy to use (as most Quicken products are). Too expensive for a year old version. Limitations with running separate files on the same PC that I'm still working on.
Bottomline: Quicken remains the industry standard for home and small business financial needs.
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Summary: Incorrect Securities Matching Algorithm
Comment: If you plan on using Quicken to track investments beware that they will assign improper prices for any security that you hold where you have more than one class of that security.
When you address the issue to Intuit you might as well be talking to a monkey, in fact you probably are.
I went to the extent of deciphering the Quicken OFX log which showed that my financial instituiton and quicken were downloading proper prices, but that the quicken pc software then matched those prices against the wrong security. The first respons I got just said that I could send them the problem again, the second said to go to the quicken web page to get the price, and the third told me again I could get help by either phoning them, emailing them, or doing a on-line chat. This was after my third email with detailed explanation, copies of their OFX log, and copies of their price files, all showing the problem.
I'll probably try money but given its reviews I am not hopeful.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not so quick
Comment: This program is not easy to use. It takes a long time. Some of the information you want to add (name of some investment companies) you can't. I don't think I would buy it again.
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