For finances past the checkbook, a small-business helper
Article Abstract:
Intuit Inc's $139.95 Quickbooks accounting software is very easy to use and puts complete accounting features, such as invoicing and receiving, into the hands of small-business owners. Quickbooks runs on DOS. It requires at least 640Kbytes of memory and 2Mbytes of hard disk space. Quickbooks is made for people who are not accountants and uses simple fill-in-the-blank forms in place of accounting jargon. Quickbooks includes more than 20 templates for various types of businesses. Quickbooks enables a user to look up information from old invoices, and allows periods to be modified after they have already been closed out. Password protection can be used to protect the books from being modified. Quickbooks is even able to perform mathematical calculations on line items, adding the requisite sales tax and taking into account any discounts. Users can generate sales and profit statements, perform cash flow analysis, print mailing labels and study project and job costs.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Programs to manage finances
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Household, home office or small business finance can be easily handled with computer-based accounting programs such as Quicken, Checkwrite Plus and Managing Your Money. Quicken, for simplified bookkeeping, is available from Intuit Inc for $49.95. The software makes it easier to write and enter checks and make budgets. For those who enjoy spending time on their finances, Managing Your Money for $149.95 to $219.98, is a good buy. Financial planner Andrew Tobias and MECA Ventures Inc produce the software, which includes information on investment portfolios, life insurance, tax planning and the like. Checkwrite Plus, $69.95 from MECA, has a simple checkbook and budget program and advanced features such as invoicing and billing, credit card records and cash forecasting. All three contain Checkfree, enabling any IBM personal computer user to pay bills electronically.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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Taxpayers find help: an expert on a disk
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Tax Cut ($79.95), from Meca Ventures Inc, is tax-planning software that combines elements from two popular financial advisers, Andrew ('Managing Your Money') Tobias and Daniel ('Ask Dan About Your Taxes') Caine. Tobias's perspective on personal finances and Caine's expertise on tax matters combine in a simple menu-driven format. The result is the columnist's choice for 1989. Tax Cut runs on IBM PCs or compatibles with 512bytes of memory.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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