Quicken 2004 XG: Amazon.co.uk: Software

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Get more out of online banking. Plan a more secure financial future. Make your money work harder with Quicken 2004 XG. Financial security and a health bank balance all help to provide peace of mind where money's concerned - and that's what you can achieve with Quicken 2004 XG. It's an easy-to-use software package that's equally simple to install and set up.

Home Finances
Quicken gives you an immediate picture of your current money situation, makes more of online banking and offers a range of easy, time-saving features to help you manage your income and investments better:

Download all of your different bank statements and credit card transactions(1)

Reduce debts and save money - build your own effective savings plan

Schedule bills and balance your accounts

Plan for the future - your retirement or a rainy day

Analyse your spending and worth - create graphs and reports to track where your money goes

Taxes
TaxCalc 2003 is the UK's bestselling way to get self-assessment taxes done quickly and accurately. And it's included with Quicken 2004 XG. There is seamless integration to import the data you need to complete your tax return. It can walk you through your return one step at time - or you can enter directly into the relevant forms. Either way it double checks everything, just like an accountant would.

Over 50 professional moneysaving tax tips

Lets you file online2 so you should get any refund months earlier than posting your return

Does up to four returns and keeps records of the data

Effortlessly imports TaxCalc data from previous years

Automatically updates over the Internet

Investments
Quicken lets you track your investments so that you know exactly how they're performing at any one time. Plus, with Quicken's powerful tools - and links to investment websites - you can maximize return on investments, confident that you're in total control at all times:

Analyse investment performance easily - with automatically updated stock and unit trust prices, plus fast transaction downloads, accessed via our enhanced Express Account Setup.

Optimise performance - set goals and make balanced decisions based on web-accessed data and other information

Plan for taxes year-round - use Easy Answer reports to help estimate your capital gains and losses. Then transfer data seamlessly to TaxCalc Lite, your integral instant calculator

Home Business
If you also run a home-based business, Quicken will help you simplify and streamline your accounting systems, saving time and effort to give you more time to concentrate on core business.

Take total command of cashflow - set up your accounts for easy tracking of invoices and bills

Simplify and speed up estimates, bids and invoices with customizable templates that can be instantly e-mailed(3) to customers; plus new multi-currency support for invoices which makes international commerce much easier

Analyse business performance via over 13 business reports, including cashflow, balance sheets, and profit and loss statements

Notes
(1) Available only from supporting financial institutions. Some financial institutions may charge a fee for online banking. Services vary by financial institution. (2) Subject to some Inland Revenue restrictions. Intuit does not guarantee that the Inland Revenue will accept your online filing. Subject to change and availability, and may not be available at all times. (3 ) Microsoft Outlook recommended for HTML e-mails.

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63 of 66 people found the following review helpful

Stay well clear 22 July 2004

By A Customer

Restore prone to failing.

Can't enter dividend income without crashing.

Help pages don't match screen functionality.

Appalling user interface.

I've just backed this off my PC and gone back to Quicken 2002.

Seriously, have a rake around Google, there are many many complaints and problems with this. Intuit have to be kidding. They've just about completely wrecked what used to be the best program around.

Am going to try and get my money back and then try Money 2004 (which pains me, it really does).

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Works well 29 Nov 2009

By Derek Collins

I have never used Quicken before. Once you get the hang of it, it is quite straight forward. The 2004 XG version is compatible withfiles created on a previous version by my colleague. Overall, I am pleased with it.

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40 of 44 people found the following review helpful

Quicken XG 18 Jan 2005

By James C. Smith

I have used Quicken, in all its various releases, from March 1993 up to the present day, and was extremely perturbed to receive a letter from Intuit that they are withdrawing from selling Quicken in the UK after 31 January 2005! Support for Quicken will also cease on 31 January 2006!

This a very retrograde step by Intuit; I have investigated Microsoft Money which is different, being better at some things, but worse in others.

Perhaps we should all back Bill Gates, and Microsoft, a little more.

I wonder if Amazon will see a large increase in sales of Money?

Companies like Intuit don't deserve us buying their products.

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