Review by Gavin Scott

Quicken (and its Quickbooks sibling) are the packages that pretty much single-handedly eliminated the accounting application software business for small to medium sized businesses, and brought easy management of financials into the realm of the personal computer.

If you’re not a Quicken user then this is a great place to start.

If you are a quicken user, then as others have said this version is incremental rather than revolutionary, and sometimes it feels like the furniture is just being re-arranged to make it feel like a new house even though there’s not really that much that’s new.

Quicken makes it easy to do all those record keeping, tax planning, budgeting, and other tasks that you know you need to do, and you keep telling yourself you’re going to get around to. It pretty much takes your hand and leads you thought the process, even if you don’t know anything about accounting.

G.