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- The Eazy Button - Really, Truly, Eazy!
- Rapid Data Entry System - for power users
- Manage your income and expenses
- See your total financial worth
- Eazy budgeting for your future
- Forecast your bank balances
- Automate your direct debits
- Import bank and credit card statements
- Manage multiple currencies
- Lifetime forum answers and support
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Home Accountz 2012
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| Introducing the Eazy Button For the first time ever in accounting software you are now guided step by step. | Everything With a Few Clicks Whether you are buying something, selling something, recording transfers of money or direct debits, the Eazy Button tells you what to do. | Charts and Graphs Includes Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Charts and Area Charts that can be defined in different series and by line or point. | Transactions Galore You can add all your transactions manually or import them from your bank or credit card account (if they have download options). |
Introducing The Eazy Button
Everyone needs to keep track of their income and outgoings these days, but not all of us know how to do that effectively. So enter our unique Eazy Button. For the first time ever in accounting software you are now guided step by step.Everything With A Few Clicks
Whether you are buying something, selling something, recording transfers of money or direct debits, the Eazy Button tells you what to do. It even creates the transactions for you so all you need to do is point and click and enter simple things like how much you paid.No Thinking Required
There are many processes involved when tracking money, and whilst setting up a spreadsheet is simple for some, others find it frustrating. Knowing what equations to put where. Trusting that your algorithms will cover new transactions as you add them. With Home Accountz 2012, you won't need to know any of those things. If in doubt, hit the Eazy Button and relax.Power Users Included
Of course, some of us demand the power that comes with knowledge, so don't worry, we have you covered as well. If you want to graph your income and expenses, reconcile your bank and credit card accounts, automate direct debits and standing orders, Home Accountz 2012 does that too.Charts and Graphs
Home Accountz 2012 includes Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Charts and Area Charts that can be defined in different series and by line or point.Filters and Views
You can create new Views, name and save them, so in future a single click will let you view your data the way you want to see it, defining the columns you want, the chart style, the date range, even the data, sort and column order you want. Powerful stuff.Transactions Galore
You can add all your transactions manually or import them from your bank or credit card account (if they have download options). You can also automate your direct debits, standing orders and direct credits (eg. for your salary, pension, tax credits etc.).Saving For The Good Times
And with a budgeting section, you can budget for individual things like holidays and also for general expenditure like food and fuel. If you know roughly what your income is, include that too and get the bigger picture looking ahead.Where Are You Now?
With a single click you can see all your balances in a single view. Know exactly how much credit you have, how much your current expenditure is. Add in your house, car and other asset values and know your Net Worth immediately.Where Will You Be?
Use the forecast view to check your ins and outs and see if you are going to go overdrawn in the future. It's as simple as a single click. You can structure your accounts any way you like too. That means you can group all your house contents together for an instant insurance valuation. Home Accountz 2012 can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.Box Contains
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
I have downloaded the 30 day trial to see whether this will replace my MS Money system.
Unlike many users the End of Life notice for Money is not a big concern to me - it will still work for years to come, what is though is that I find a product that is as good and adds something new.
Sadly, this isn't quite it.
The transaction entering is great and a lot faster than Money.
Scheduled transactions is logical and template transactions are brilliant.
However,
You cannot apply a scheduled transaction ahead of its scheduled date. This means items like monthly salary payments which are "on or around" cannot be moved to the date then came in. This makes trying to get an accurate picture of you real current balance, across multiple accounts, is flawed. This is also the case, with regular payments which are not always applied (e.g. I buy a train ticket monthly, but not if there are less than 20 working days in the month), with Money I simply skipped the payment, with this I have to wait until it has been entered.
I also HATE the need to specify the number of transactions that are to be made - Recurring DDs or standing orders do not have to stipulate this.
Trying to reconcile a bank statement is like pulling teeth. Money allowed you to enter a statement by tracking the opening and closing amount of the statement, which meant looking for missing amounts was tracked. There does not seem to be amy support for this.
The big "easy" buttons screen works very well, but as soon as you have done something you need to use the "non-easy" way to find it.
My biggest gripe is that the status of every account seems to be listed on a per transaction basis on the same "reports" screen. This makes life incredibly complex as you have a mix of "Real Accounts" and "Accounting Accounts" displayed at the same time.
But, I like the way it handles some accounting things
I can't decide whether at £25 this is worth perserving with, which is a shame, because as an accounts package, it does have a lot of nice features.
Unfortunately, the 30 day trial highlights more what it can't do and less what it can.
My advice is - Try before you buy - if its the right thing for you, then great, if not, they you will know after using the trial for a month.
Update (Trial day 4)
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Having continued to try and get to grips with this product, I imported all my MS Money accounts. This took hours! Firstly, every account and category had to be mapped to a newly created one - this process was laborious. Then, after much crunching all the transactions came in - but the WRONG way around. The simple "from" and "to" is wrong on the import, Money coming off my current account in Money should be a "to" account not a "from account". With bugs like these I have now made up my mind.
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Unlike many users the End of Life notice for Money is not a big concern to me - it will still work for years to come, what is though is that I find a product that is as good and adds something new.
Sadly, this isn't quite it.
The transaction entering is great and a lot faster than Money.
Scheduled transactions is logical and template transactions are brilliant.
However,
You cannot apply a scheduled transaction ahead of its scheduled date. This means items like monthly salary payments which are "on or around" cannot be moved to the date then came in. This makes trying to get an accurate picture of you real current balance, across multiple accounts, is flawed. This is also the case, with regular payments which are not always applied (e.g. I buy a train ticket monthly, but not if there are less than 20 working days in the month), with Money I simply skipped the payment, with this I have to wait until it has been entered.
I also HATE the need to specify the number of transactions that are to be made - Recurring DDs or standing orders do not have to stipulate this.
Trying to reconcile a bank statement is like pulling teeth. Money allowed you to enter a statement by tracking the opening and closing amount of the statement, which meant looking for missing amounts was tracked. There does not seem to be amy support for this.
The big "easy" buttons screen works very well, but as soon as you have done something you need to use the "non-easy" way to find it.
My biggest gripe is that the status of every account seems to be listed on a per transaction basis on the same "reports" screen. This makes life incredibly complex as you have a mix of "Real Accounts" and "Accounting Accounts" displayed at the same time.
But, I like the way it handles some accounting things
I can't decide whether at £25 this is worth perserving with, which is a shame, because as an accounts package, it does have a lot of nice features.
Unfortunately, the 30 day trial highlights more what it can't do and less what it can.
My advice is - Try before you buy - if its the right thing for you, then great, if not, they you will know after using the trial for a month.
Update (Trial day 4)
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Having continued to try and get to grips with this product, I imported all my MS Money accounts. This took hours! Firstly, every account and category had to be mapped to a newly created one - this process was laborious. Then, after much crunching all the transactions came in - but the WRONG way around. The simple "from" and "to" is wrong on the import, Money coming off my current account in Money should be a "to" account not a "from account". With bugs like these I have now made up my mind.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Well I surprisingly found "Home Accountz 2012" pretty good.
Firstly I had no problems at all with the installation which started automatically as soon as I inserted the CDRom and completed quickly.
Secondly the "Eazy Button" made setting up and entering transactions a breeze. From three main tabs you are able to record most of the entries you will need on a day to day basis.
From the 'Set Up' Tab you can: Set up a new file/add an income source/add an expenditure source/add a payee and delete a payee.
From the 'Bank/Credit Card' Tab you can: Make a credit card payment/add a bank account/add a direct debit/delete an account/transfer to another bank account/record bank and finance charges/add a credit card/undelete an account/add a direct credit/create a loan/close an account/add a standing order/make a payment on a loan and re-open a closed account.
From the 'Transaction tab' you can: Pay a bill/buy something/record an income/add recurring income/add a recurring transfer and add a recurring payment.
Thirdly the accounts, budgeting and balances button allows for more detailed entries including major assets such as property and vehicles, also other asset groups for example furniture (antiques and art maybe). I have found the budgeting section useful and the ability to budget for individual items/events for example holidays, birthdays and Christmas can really help you save without too much pain.
I have not used every function of "Home Accountz 2012" but the ones I have mentioned above I am very pleased with. If you are looking for a simple to use but complete package for home accounting you can't go far wrong with this product.
You can access various reports and forecasts by way of bar charts, pie charts, line charts and graphs.
Firstly I had no problems at all with the installation which started automatically as soon as I inserted the CDRom and completed quickly.
Secondly the "Eazy Button" made setting up and entering transactions a breeze. From three main tabs you are able to record most of the entries you will need on a day to day basis.
From the 'Set Up' Tab you can: Set up a new file/add an income source/add an expenditure source/add a payee and delete a payee.
From the 'Bank/Credit Card' Tab you can: Make a credit card payment/add a bank account/add a direct debit/delete an account/transfer to another bank account/record bank and finance charges/add a credit card/undelete an account/add a direct credit/create a loan/close an account/add a standing order/make a payment on a loan and re-open a closed account.
From the 'Transaction tab' you can: Pay a bill/buy something/record an income/add recurring income/add a recurring transfer and add a recurring payment.
Thirdly the accounts, budgeting and balances button allows for more detailed entries including major assets such as property and vehicles, also other asset groups for example furniture (antiques and art maybe). I have found the budgeting section useful and the ability to budget for individual items/events for example holidays, birthdays and Christmas can really help you save without too much pain.
I have not used every function of "Home Accountz 2012" but the ones I have mentioned above I am very pleased with. If you are looking for a simple to use but complete package for home accounting you can't go far wrong with this product.
You can access various reports and forecasts by way of bar charts, pie charts, line charts and graphs.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
I downloaded this as a replacement for an Excel spreadsheet, and I found it to be slightly worse than what I have already, the system suffers from a lack of clarity and when I needed telephone support the phone remained unanswered , it is a shame the effort the company makes to get customers to upgrade their software is not matched by the desire to support the product that has been paid for .
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