Amazon.co.uk Review
Quicken personal finance software has been around a long time in its successive versions. But why should you invest in such software at all? For newcomers to
Quicken 2002 Deluxe it will do the crucial job of pulling together all your financial accounts--current accounts, mortgages, endowments, savings, credit cards, property and the rest--under one roof. You may marvel as you discover your net worth for the first time and uncover any black holes in your finances. Most importantly, seeing your accounts side by side will show you which is performing and underperforming and help you re-establish (or perhaps establish for the first time) personal finance targets.
Quicken comes in three versions, so why opt for Quicken 2002 Deluxe rather than the entry-level Quicken 2002 Standard or the small business-oriented Quicken 2002 Deluxe & Business? Firstly Deluxe will give you more sophisticated tools with which to analyse the account data you painstakingly input when you first opened the program. As well as budgeting, you will be able to use data to forecast and plan your financial future. You can directly access personal finance news from the excellent Motley Fool Web site (a matter of convenience rather than a compelling selling point, after all you can go to the Web site anyway) and you can use Quicken to detail your home contents insurance. You can also generate "what if?" scenarios on your income, expenses and investments and track your share options.
Once everything is entered Quicken will generate reports, see where money is going by categorising transactions and check on the performance of your investments. And you can check that your ISAs, pension funds and the rest are on course to deliver the funds youll need in five, ten or 30 years. For users wanting to discipline their existing finances and plan ahead, Quicken 2002 Deluxe is a good one-stop solution. --John Rennie
Manufacturer's Description
What can Quicken 2002 do for you? With over 22 million users, Quicken is the world's leading personal and home office finance software.
Quicken effortlessly manages all your money - making it easy to keep track of your income, expenses, investments, assets and loans.
And you can bank online, create budgets, generate reports, figure out your taxes and track your ISAs and other mutual funds.
In fact, you can even get masses of helpful information about the best loans, mortgages and investments directly from Motley Fool.
Quicken - the smarter way to manage all your personal finances, investments and home office accounts.
Easy to use
Quicken looks & works exactly like your bank statement - so it's simple to learn & use. It uses no accounting jargon or complex instructions.
Quicken takes you through setting up your first accounts. Quicken links with over 90% of bank accounts allowing you to download your finances. Quicken categorises your download transactions and learns from you. Quicken will analyse your finances and automatically flag Keeps you in control
Financial Centres give you a fully customisable single screen view of any of the key information that you have defined about your finances. See your financial position at a glance.
Maximise your savings and investments
Track and control all your savings and investments
Understand your entire investment portfolio - at a glance. Analyse and graph market value, price and transaction history of each of your investment funds. Keep up-to-date with your ISAs, retirement plans and mutual funds Manage your home business
Track all your business transactions - payments, receipts, cashflow, customer statements, VAT, estimates and invoicing. Create estimates & invoices and generate business reports Keep track of business profitability Instant access to vital customer information - invoicing, payments, VAT, credit and refunds. New smart features and improvements for 2002
Easiest Quicken to setup ever
With the new intuitive user interface for setting up the key aspects of Quicken you can be up and running in Quicken faster than ever before.
Auto statement reconciliation
Quicken will automatically reconcile your banking data to ensure you have accurate information.
Improved budgeting
New user interface for budgets. Mix quarterly and monthly budgets. Easy to use file analysis to create budgets quickly.
Accounts payable tracking
Full accounts payable tracking now gives customers the ability to track all transactions with their suppliers in detail.
Exclusively in Quicken Deluxe
Smart Banking(Bill Management - Reconciliation and Alerts) Account Overview Financial Planners - Save More Planner and Debt Planner Share Option Tracking Emergency Records Organiser Quicken Home Inventory - to manage your household contents and insurance Bond Set-up Budgeting Employee Stock Purchase Tracking Quicken 2002 added Two steps to claiming your cashback:
1. Fill in the original coupon included in the box completely to obtain your cashback
2. Send back the completed coupon together with all of the following:
Original or photocopy of page 1 of the manual, or a copy of your sales receipt, from a previous version of Quicken. Original of photocopy of your Quicken 2002 Deluxe sales receipt.
In order to obtain your rebate, you must have registered you latest copy of Quicken 2002. (This offer is valid until January 31, 2003)