Personal Finance Guide

Archive for December, 2008

BABY’S FIRST $500: America Saving for Personal Investment, Retirement and Education (ASPIRE) Act

Question: What is the best/easiest/most robust Personal Finance software for Mac?

I recently went from PC to Mac (no regrets there), but Windows Quicken is way better than Mac Quicken. Wondered what other options were that you guys had good experiences with.

Answer: Hi there…Quicken for Mac is the most complete personal financial software application for Mac. There are other applications however they very limited in the way of features that Quicken has.

Alternatives:
Liquid Legder: http://www.liquidledger.com/
YNAB: http://financialsoft.about.com/od/reviewsfinancesoftware/a/YNAB_review.htm
Budget: http://www.snowmintcs.com/products/

Freeware alternatives:
Gnucash: http://www.gnucash.org/
Ace Money Lite: http://www.mechcad.net/products/acemoney/index_lite.shtml
PLCash Home: http://www.arachnoid.com/PLCash/index.html

MoneyWell – Getting Started

Question: Finance & checking accounts……?

So, for my Business & Personal Finance class I have to do this assignment called Cruise the News where I find an article online about the current topic we’re working on and I write a summary about it. I turned to Yahoo Answers because I cannot find an article for the lifeeee of me. I’ve looked on all business sites like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc. It’s awful that I can’t find anything. So I was wondering if anyone can help me find an article.
I’m basically looking for something with the topic of checking accounts and reconciliating them. That’s what we were working on most recently.
I was thinking of looking for an article that had something to do with checking account fraud, but I couldn’t find anything for it.
One thing I need to say…..the article has to have been written in the past year about Business stuff.
Thank you soo much! Whoever provides a decent article will get best answer!

Answer: the topic of checking accounts and reconciliating them.

This is more like Personal Finance, and not business news, so I am not surprised you are finding nothing on this. I read the business section of the NY Times, and get Money magazine, and have never seen an article on this. Kiplinger might have something. Or investopedia.com would probably have an article. But this is just for reference & not necessarily in the news.

Have you tried a google search??

Mint’s Three Principles of Personal Finance