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Shelley's Financial Software Blog December 2005 Archive

By Shelley Elmblad, About.com Guide to Financial Software since 2005

Before You Buy Tax Software

Tuesday December 27, 2005
Considering doing your own taxes using tax software this year? Most people should think about it. Adding tax software to your financial software collection is a great way ... Read More

Quicken Automatic Budgets

Tuesday December 27, 2005
It's getting to be the time of year when many folks start thinking about their household budget. Perhaps you are thinking about managing your budget better as a New ... Read More

Quicken New Year

Sunday December 25, 2005
The Quicken New Year file command allows Quicken to make a backup of the current data file, then all data before a particular date is removed from this file. Once a ... Read More

Term of the Week: FSA

Thursday December 22, 2005
Many employers offer FSAs. See how FSAs are defined and how you can save on income taxes by using pre-tax dollars for medical expenses.

No Taxcut for Mac 2005

Tuesday December 20, 2005
Looks like there is no Taxcut for Mac this year. The official word from H & R Block's Taxcut is that the company did not get much business from ... Read More

Using Cash Accounts

Monday December 19, 2005
There are a variety of ways to use cash accounts in financial software, providing creative solutions for handling a variety of transactions. See how you can use cash ... Read More

Setting Up Other Accounts in Microsoft Money

Friday December 16, 2005
You get plenty of options when setting up an account in Microsoft Money. The Microsoft Money account setup gives you an Other Account option along with the usual banking ... Read More

Software for Flexible Spending Accounts

Wednesday December 14, 2005
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) are becoming a popular employee benefit. Learn what financial software you can use to manage your FSA, and how to set up Software for Flexible ... Read More

Financial Software for Christmas

Monday December 12, 2005
Sure, why not give the gift of financial software for Christmas? Well, you may want to avoid doing so with your significant other. But, financial software would be ... Read More

Quickbooks 2006

Saturday December 10, 2005
Although Quicken Premiere Home and Business is very useful for small businesses, the Quickbooks 2006 Review from About Tax Planning points out how Quickbooks 2006 offers a great small business ... Read More

Term of the Week: Category

Thursday December 8, 2005
The financial software term of the week is Category. Categories are essential to financial software because without them, there would be no meaningful way for the software to report ... Read More

Setting Up Business Checking in Microsoft Money

Tuesday December 6, 2005
Sometimes tasks just aren't straight forward in financial software, and that's probably because financial software packages have grown to be incredibly comprehensive. Still with proper beta testing, such issues ... Read More

Questions About ItsDeductible

Sunday December 4, 2005
My recent updated review of TurboTax ItsDeductible spawned a couple of good questions. Click and read to find out why ItsDeductible is as useful later in the year as ... Read More

What's New in TurboTax

Friday December 2, 2005
I am delighted with the improvements I see each year in TurboTax, it seems that there are really listening to customers. Read up on the best new features in ... Read More

Updated Review: TurboTax ItsDeductible

Thursday December 1, 2005
TurboTax ItsDeductible is now easier to use than ever with a search box or a drop down list for entering non-cash charitable contributions. ItsDeductible 2005 has some nice reporting ... Read More
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