Product Description

Brand New - Full UK Retail Boxed - Exactly the same as amazons - Price includes VAT and invoice supplied.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16 in Software
• Brand: Microsoft
• Released on: 2004-09-14
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 98
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .44 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Money Standard 2005 automatically consolidates all your online financial information in one place and provides fast, complete answers to your basic financial questions. Its automated features, like getting account balances and transactions from your bank and auto-categorization of spending, help simplify your life by showing you how much you have and how much you're spending. Money makes it easy to keep tabs on areas that matter to you, like dining out and groceries.

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Customer Reviews

Microsoft Money PC CDRom
Although I have used this software before on various version. I still feel that it lacks something. But apart from this it is a very good software Accounts program and very easy to use. I only hope that in future versions Microsoft will add a page control for the printer so that the client can insert a manual page break instead of a Automatic page break but as this problem was also in Quicken maybe it is not possible to create.

Good at home, or on the move
So it's a bit clunky? It's Microsoft for goodness' sake! These are the advantages I like:-

- I can do my annual tax return (interest, dividends, rentals, etc.) in a day, even with the daft UK financial year. Update report dates, export to Excel, fill in the forms;
- For free you can download a Pocket PC version to your PDA and synchronise in seconds. I am sometimes away from home for a month at a time and when I get home the desktop version can be updated and reconciled in a trice;
- By using the regular payments/receipts section, and "paying and receiving" in advance it takes only seconds to project your cashflow.

I have used Money since 1994 (four floppies if memory serves) - I wouldn't use it to plan my retirement as it seems to think it can, but for basic family finances, it is a solid ally.

Stodgy sloppy software
I bought MM thinking that there would be some intelligent design and well thought out structure, behind a microsoft product, allowing users to tailor it to their needs. The downloads from my accounts almost never balance and I have to manually go through all my statements to correct errant entries. Difficult to open multiple databases without backing up and logging in again. No save or save as functions. No append functions. Difficult to sort or categorise similar items at a stroke. Almost impossible to change, add or rename fields. Always anxious of overwriting previous data given the way MM saves/backs-up. What a terrible piece of software. Any offers on alternate intuitive and well-designed accounting software??