Keeping Track of your Personal Finances
I’m a MS Money user myself, but for those unable or unwilling to deal with MS Money or Quicken, there’s a new online personal finance manager called Expensr. I imagine it’s fairly close to the online personal finance managers I posted about before concerning digital feng shui.
“Register for the freshly-launched and free Expensr, which can import OFX files from your bank for batch transaction entry. Create and manage a list of expense categories (with subcategories, so Food > Restaurants or Food > Groceries) and categorize your transactions as you enter them. Expensr also supports multiple “accounts,” though that part gets confusing, as the demo lists “Expenses” and “Income” as two accounts, when you’d expect things like “Checking” and “Savings.” Hit the “Category Analysis” tab to see a detailed pie graph of your expenses. Expensr’s still very new, but it looks like a promising, stripped-down online alternative to wrestling with Quicken or Microsoft Money on your desktop.”
I suppose I am still just old-fashioned and prefer not to store that type of information in a website database, and would rather keep it on my desktop. But for others who can’t afford or don’t have access to desktop applications for personal finance, this is your next best bet.
Of course I am always willing to share my old copy of MS Money and Quicken that I have .zipped up, I just need a place to store them for download since I only have a free box.net account.
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