Review by Skylark Alauda Thibedeau

I’ve been using quicken to keep up with my finances since 1997 when I was with a quicken helpdesk for a major now defunct bank. Quicken has always been the best of the financial tracking tools for the home economist far surpassing other tools Like Microsoft Money in user friendliness.

The best feature is the ability to download transactions from your financial institutions. You can take information from your bank accounts or credit cards and import it into quicken usually for free or a small fee. You can then sort your bills and spending into handy expense and debit catagories to track your spending, your taxes, or your budget.

Quicken has many financial reporting tools. You can determine what your tax liability is. You can find what a loan or mortage payment might be at certain interest rates. You can create a budget. You can create a home inventory and keep track of your belongings and their replacement costs.

Quicken also has very easy to understand tutorials to learn how best to use the product and a very helpful website that answer most of your questions.

Intuit has developed the most useful financial tool on the market for lay people. There is very little they can do to improve it.