Safe Internet Shopping - Quicken 2008 Home & Business [OLD VERSION]

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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Intuit EAN: 0028287017337 Feature: Perfect for home business owners and self-employed professionals Format: CD-ROM Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Intuit Manufacturer: Intuit Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Intuit Release Date: 2007-09-09 Studio: Intuit
Features Perfect for home business owners and self-employed professionals Track personal and business expenses in one place and see how your business is doing Capture all your possible business deductions and see your tax deduction status throughout the year Connect to your bank, credit card, 401(k)s, or brokerage accounts with a single password Make online banking even better--bring all your personal and business online accounts together in one place
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: run away, run far far away Comment: I should have listened to the other reviews on this one. I'm still a fan of turbotax, and thought, hey this should work well with it, but was I ever wrong. Fundamentally the product has the right features and reports but it just doesn't tally well, which is after all what financial software is supposed to do. I have spent 10-15 hours just trying to get a couple of accounts to tally accurately and they never do. Its not by some large margin, but a couple hundred bucks here and there and you start to lose trust in the accounting application's fundamental capabilities. At this point I'm resigned to use it account approximately and report on "roughly" the right numbers but that really just isn't good enough for what is supposed to be basic accounting software. One example of a bug, on credit cards from MBNA it doesn't download the interest charged, and won't let you manually put the number in when you try an reconcile. Anyway, I would recommend people steer clear of this bloatware. You'd be better of just using excel. Customer Rating: Summary: The Blue Screen of Death Generator Comment: After much deliberation, I upgraded from the very stable MSMoney to Quicken 2008 Home and Business. It works fine when it works, featurewise, not a whole lot diferent from comparable MSMoney version. Except for this nasty feature: As you work along in quicken, quicken decides it is time to reboot your PC, so you get the infamous windows Blue Screen and pop, you are rebooting, whether you like it or not. Support is useless, unless you want to pay to train their support staff and do the Quality Assurance and Testing on their product. Big mistake, now I have to re-convert everything back to MS Money. Customer Rating: Summary: Nice Features But Unusable Due to Bugs Comment: Avoid this software at all costs. I'm a long term Quicken user (15+ years) and, though they keep adding nice features in terms of reports, views and tools, they are unusable due to problems like the software using up 100% of the P.C.'s CPU without ever letting up. When certain views are selected, the CPU will go to 100%, with Quicken being the culprit, and it never lets go. Only terminating the process by way of the Task Manager is your only lifeline. Even then, it seems that Quicken leaves the P.C. in a bad state. I've only had this problem with Home & Business 2008. I do have to agree with the other reviewers in that there are other quirks that leave you feeling less than confident about how Quicken handles your financial data. This was never the case with version from the 90's. They've tried to add too many features and have given little attention to software quality. If you are thinking about this software for the first time - forget it! If you have a migration path away from it - take it! Customer Rating: Summary: Pain in the rear to get started. Need accounting background... Comment: I have a small photography business and use this to keep books. Takes some serious effort to get started and the help files are worthless for understanding how to set things up. Get a good book on accounting and you should be okay. CONCLUSION: Takes some work but is an okay solution. Customer Rating: Summary: Quicken gets worse with each version--I'll never buy it again Comment: I've purchased at least eight versions of Quicken and I will admit I only used them when I absolutely had to. Now, I really need the kinds of features that Quicken claims to have and I am extraordinarily, completely and utterly disappointed. The interface has gone from mildly annoying to completely opaque and illogical. I am happy to say Intuit/Quicken will never get another dollar from me. The lowest rating I am allowed to give this program is a single star, negative stars would be more appropriate. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Quicken Home & Business 2008 brings your personal and business finances together for a complete view of your financial picture. Get smart business tracking tools to track expenses you paid for with a personal account. The redesigned Business Center gives you an overall snapshot for what's going out from your accounts, what's coming in during the month and what's left. Quicken remembers the first time you enter a business transaction to avoid needing to enter the same data twice. This applies to similar entries in the future to help identify transactions you enter as business or personal, income or expenses, with just a single click. Bring your personal and business accounts such as banks, 401(k) or other IRA, online brokerages together in one place. Avoid surprises during tax time by categorizing deductions and instantly see your status throughout the year with the business tax deduction summary. See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to help you schedule bills, set reminders and help avoid late fees. Quicken Home & Business exports your data directly to TurboTax, so you won't have to re-enter the same information twice.