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Product Features

Save time organising and managing your finances
Easily manage your cash flow, balance your accounts
Manage Your Investment Portfolio
Track investments including stocks, funds, bonds and employee stock options
Achieve your future financial goals
Reduce your debt, forecast your cash flow, plan for retirement
Make smarter financial decisions
Get a visual picture of income and expenses, cash flow, category spending, budget and more

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Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

Like the 10 editions that preceded it, Money 2003 offers powerful personal finance management for home users. This edition includes all of the features that made previous editions invaluable to those trying to get a handle on their finances. Money 2003 offers account management, budgeting, planning and spending reports and a lot more. These features form the backbone of the book and have been improved over the last several years. There's little more Microsoft can do to improve these core features.

In recent editions, Microsoft has increased integration with Internet features, linking to MSN Money. The increased dependency on signing into MS Passport continues to baffle users, as the updates it provides can be handled without signing into Passport. In this edition the reliance is even greater: when loading Money Express (the Money-lite) reminder system, it presents a sign-in window when Internet access isn't required, thus slowing down use.

Users upgrading from a previous edition will find very little to write home about apart from some user-interface and report tweaks, a more customisable and detailed homepage, background connection to your banks and more links to MSN Money and FTyourmoney.com. There's a small performance improvement over 2002: users of the Financial Suite edition ( Money 2003 Financial Suite) get improved investing tools for research and portfolio management and Quicken users will as usual find that there is a converter wizard should they want to transfer their Quicken data.

As with all personal finance management products, the benefit users get from this will be determined by the effort they put in. Money 2003 is a high-quality personal finance package that with regular use proves extremely beneficial. --Colin Neal

Manufacturer's Description

Microsoft Money 2003 Standard provides a quick and easy way to organize and manage your personal finances. New features include auto balancing, a bills estimator, spending comparison reports, and investment reminders.

Save time organizing and managing your cash flow and balancing your checkbook. Create and track a budget, pay your bills, organize your finances, and view a complete picture of your financial health all in one place. Achieving your future financial goals is also made simple with Microsoft Money. Reduce your debt, forecast your cash flow, finance an education, or save to buy a house or car. Get a visual picture of income and expenses, category spending, budget, and more.

Money 2003 Standard features improved register reconciliation, better bill management, and the ability to create unlimited custom views of portfolio information and see portfolio values as of specific dates. Automatically balance accounts when they match your downloaded statements. Even define the way payees are matched in downloaded statements to suit your preferences.

Customer Reviews

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56 of 60 people found the following review helpful

Takes some setting up 12 Feb 2003

By Darryl Godden

If you have 1 bank account, no shares, no savings, no pensions and no assets then setting up Money 2003 (M2003) is a doddle. However this is not the case for most people, so be prepared to spend sometime setting it up, and this is the proof, once these things are set up managing all your accounts is a doddle and tracking your finances couldn't be easier.

The ability to download statements from your bank is welcome, though you need to spend time deciphering the bank codes and references to something more readable.

The will creator is also a welcome addition, allowing the normal Jo to sort out there estate should the worst happen.

The reporting facilities seem endless and the options to control every aspect of your finances, with online updates and web sites information, it can be as complicated or simple as you like.

Overall a very recommended buy.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

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By Juliet

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This is brilliant piece of software for controlling your finances. If you need to get organised then get this one! Myself, I am used to Money 97 and that used to it that this one is a bit hard to get into, but its excellent, it provides graphs, charts, (ok the last one did) but this does it in a new way and gives you forecasts and spending habbits - 10/10. Im still using 97 and now this, I prefer the old one, but then again im used to it. For those who havnt used MS Money before - use this one!

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66 of 77 people found the following review helpful

Best Version Yet ... 22 Dec 2002

By Dazzz

I've used a number of the previous versions of Money and this is by far the best. If you like to keep track of your finances, or lack there of, then this is the tool to do it.

It's very easy to use and provides advise on just about all matters financial. If you have web access it will connect and provide even more advise and some very useful tools.

Money is setup for all types of accounts from Current to Savings to Mortages. Can be used for share portfolios, accounts in different currencies, credit cards or just about anything else you could think of.

As I said at the start, if you like to keep track of your finances then this is the tool to do it.

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