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Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter Weverka
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $21.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 96120
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0764599534
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.024028553
EAN: 9780764599538
ASIN: 0764599534
Publication Date: September 2, 2005
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Product Description
Do you know where you money goes? Would balancing your budget take an act of Congress? Does your idea of preparing for the future involve lottery tickets? This friendly guide provides everything you need to know to stay on top of your finances and make the most of your money — both your cash and your Microsoft Money 2006 software program (the Premium, Deluxe, or Standard edition). You’ll find out how to record financial transactions, analyze different investments, determine your net worth, plan for retirement, make informed financial decisions, and more. With step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions and lots of screen shots, Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies shows and tells you how to: - Set up accounts and record all transactions, including charge card purchases
- Do your banking, categorize your spending and income, reconcile an account, print checks, and more
- Research and track investments
- Create a realistic budget, schedule bill payments, estimate your income tax bill, plan for retirement, and more
- Generate reports and charts that help you understand your spending habits, see where you stand financially, and improve your financial picture
- Track assets, liabilities, loans, and mortgages
- Use online banking services
You can even get really serious and use the Lifetime Planner to map out your hopes and dreams and find out if you’re on the way to achieving them. This book could be the best investment you’ll ever make!
Download Description
Covers Premium, Deluxe, and Standard editions of Money Use Money to save money, make money, manage money, and get your money's worth Ever hear that it takes money to make money? Spend a little on this book and discover easy ways to set up accounts, do your banking online, research and track investments, make payments on time, even generate reports that help you understand where your money's going. Best of all, you'll find you're actually managing your money! Discover how to Set up Money or update from an earlier version Know what your investments are worth Estimate your tax bill Track income and expenses Generate reports Plan for retirement
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 Wizard Walk-throughs January 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book to help me figure out the quirks of Money. But the more I flip through the book for answers the more frustrated I become. Basically, Mr Weverka just adds words around Money's dialog box wizards. If you're trying to do anything beyond the basics, this book won't help you. If you're looking for answers to tricky points like these, look elsewhere:
- I get paid on the 1st and 15th of every month. In case of a weekend or holiday, I'll get paid before. For example, if the 1st is a Saturday, I'll get paid the 30th or 31st of the previous month. The problem: Money's budgeting program puts this income in the previous month. So the previous month I get three paychecks, and the current month I get one. I looked for a solution in the book and found nothing. My best solution through trial and error: edit the transaction date to trick Money into thinking I got the deposit on the 1st.
- How to set up accounts for stock options, including a portion that's been exercised and being held. No mention in the book about this. Mr Weverka simply puts words around Money's Stock Option dialog boxes (which are very simple). Solution: set up separate accounts for held options -- found this solution after digging around online.
- Working the kinks out between Money tracking your gross income versus your basic accounts recording net income. Mr Weverka doesn't even mention the difference, let alone how to track the difference. He simply walks you through which buttons to press in the budgeting area. Oh, click "OK" after I enter my income? Thanks.
Bottom line, if you can follow on-screen directions, don't bother with the book. At the very least just borrow it from your library to get familiar with the program. If you need answers to more complex questions--although I wouldn't even consider mine particularly complex--search elsewhere.
 Great for getting started, but missing what I was really looking for September 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought Microsoft Money 2007 Premium a few weeks ago. The interface was intuitive enough that I was able to get it set up and running without much trouble. I was also able to set up online functions with my various bank and investment accounts, including some institutions that are capable of automated updates, and some that require a manual download. Everything worked pretty slick, and transactions were rolling in nicely.
With all the data streaming in, I worked hard trying to figure out Money's balancing process, what it really means and how to assure everything balanced out and returned accurate figures for net worth, spending by category, investment values, etc. I got stuck with certain types of transfers from one account to another that were throwing off my reporting and decided I needed a book to help me learn the finer points.
I found that there is no book for 2007. I read that the changes from 2006 were minimal, so I ordered "Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies" by Peter Weverka.
I found the book easy to read, topics easy to find, and I was able to get some answers on some basic questions, such as accurately splitting transactions across categories. I also liked the tips on how to more easily do the things I had already figured out, such as Find and Replace to edit transactions en masse. There are helpful warnings for potential pitfalls, which I don't think I'd have figured out on my own (at least not without pain).
My impression (totally subjective, of course) is that the author enjoys working with finances (and is really good at it), and recommends that we all take time to be careful and smart with our money. His book's advice, I thought, leaned toward manually handling accounts and taking a lot of time reconciling and balancing accounts.
I wish I were so inclined, but I really purchased Money for just about the opposite purpose! I'm more into letting the whiz-bang software do the work for me, in as automated a way as possible. I want to download the data from the bank, not enter it manually and then reconcile. After reading the book, I still do not know how to cope with the complicated volumes of data downloaded from my broker accounts: buys and sells, shifting of money from one fund to another, etc. There are only 24 pages out of 328 (one section) that are devoted to online banking. I was hungry for more.
I'm glad I have the book, and plan to give it another read through to make sure I didn't miss anything. I'll also keep looking for a book with more advanced information about the online features of Money.
MS Money 2006 for dummies April 2, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Had to get this since no 2007 book out. Black and white total pages get a bit hard to read after awhile. It would be nice to have some color pages in somewhere
Money 2006 for Dummies March 26, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good starter book and reference guide Keeps you on track and
helps when you need a refersher
 Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies March 9, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
As can be found in the ...for Dummies series... Lots of help and easy to find the answer to your problem. I had one specific question and found the answer right away. Now I have the book to find any other problem solver when needed.
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