Personal accounting packages?

**Pumba** · 10th January 2010, 20:15

Ok far from bike related but anyway.

Was woundering if anyone had any recomendations fir some personal accounting software? I currently use a excell spreadsheet I got from a friend of a friend, and that works well, but the down sdide it is all manual data entry and was woundering if there is anything out there that anyone would recomend that works in with .csv, .qif, or .tsv type files that I can download from my online banking.

So any one got any recomendations?

**Mully** · 10th January 2010, 20:22

Have you had a play with MS Money? I had a play with it as a personal system, but it downloads from the Bank easily.

**boomer** · 10th January 2010, 20:29

cashbook complete

**rwh** · 10th January 2010, 20:35

GnuCash seems to be reasonably well respected, and is free software.

Haven't used it myself for several years.

Richard

**Hitcher** · 10th January 2010, 20:40

Xero. At xero.com

**Pumba** · 11th January 2010, 10:47

Cheers guys I will look into those.

I believe that reading around the net that Microsoft are discontinuing MS Money

**Tank** · 11th January 2010, 10:48

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Xero. At xero.com

+1

bloody good software

**FROSTY:Me** · 11th January 2010, 10:50

some say gidday and Jorja can show you what we use

**crazyhorse** · 11th January 2010, 10:54

Originally Posted by boomer

cashbook complete

This is one of my favourite small business programes. Very easy to use. Has my vote

I have also used MYOB. But this is not a simple programme, unless you are financial and computer minded

**Pumba** · 11th January 2010, 16:38

Originally Posted by rwh

GnuCash seems to be reasonably well respected, and is free software.

Haven't used it myself for several years.

Richard

Had a play round today with GnuCash today. Its a nice program, good if you are manually entering things. It does talk to the .qif files but takes a lot of organisation after the fact so might keep looking.

Originally Posted by FROSTY

some say gidday and Jorja can show you what we use

Cheers Frosty, I have got some time to kill tomorrow so might head down to the yard.

I have down loaded a trial version of Quicken Personal 2010 so will have a play with that as well, any one got any opinion of the Quicken software?

**slofox** · 11th January 2010, 16:54

The Moneyworks family of programs are easy to use and should do the job. Local program - cognito software in Takapuna...works for me.

**Pumba** · 11th January 2010, 17:24

Cheers, just been having a look at Cashbook Complete and I am liking what I am seeing so far.

**Gremlin** · 15th January 2010, 13:39

We use Quicken Quickbooks in business... does what we need I guess, probably don't use it for everything, mostly receiving bills and paying them and managing stock...

**Conquiztador** · 15th January 2010, 20:50

Yep, Cashbook Complete from Acclaim is the way to go. NZ software that has all the NZ bits there icl GST. Can't go wrong!

**Ronin** · 15th January 2010, 21:12

Originally Posted by Gremlin

We use Quicken Quickbooks in business... does what we need I guess, probably don't use it for everything, mostly receiving bills and paying them and managing stock...

Quickbooks is the work of the devil and the bain of my working day...

Actually, I have several bains but QB is up there