Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33 in Software
• Brand: Accountz.com Ltd
• Released on: 2006-10-27
• Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X, Linux, Mac OS X Intel, Windows Vista

Manufacturer's Description
Personal Accountz tracks your bank, credit cards, savings, loans and shares in the simplest possible way. You can enter all your transactions in the same window in any order so you can see exactly what you have done. Your balances update in real time: you will always know what you have in the bank, what you have left till the end of the month, whether you will go overdrawn in the future, on what date, and by how much. With automated direct debits and rapid data entry including our unique single key press preset entries there is no faster way to keep on top.

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Customer Reviews

Not as good some other products, but does the job
After I recently ditched the PC in favour of a Mac I found the one application I missed more than anything was MS Money. Mac users are not exactly spoiled for choice when it comes to good, reasonably priced personal finance applications so I settled for Personal Accountz (PAZ).

Whilst PAZ does the job it is meant to do more than adequately it is not on par with, say, MS Money. The user interface in MS Money is far more intuitive than that of PAZ, and PAZ looks and behaves much more like a double entry bookkeeping system. As an accountant this isn't really a problem, but I can see that for some this may be a bit baffling at first.

Some basic set-up work is required before you can start using PAZ. But you can start with just two accounts (e.g. a bank account and an expenses account) and add to the list of accounts as you go along. So you could be up and running in no time - especially as setting up new accounts isn't all that difficult.

One area where PAZ is way ahead of e.g. MS Money is the way your accounts can be set up exactly the way you want them, and should you wish to do so you can effectively create your own P&L and Balance Sheet type lay-out. Similarly, you can set any number of groups of accounts with several levels of sub-groups which can be rolled up and summarised at the click of a button.

As I said, Mac users don't have much of a choice in this area - especially after Intuit stopped supporting Quicken for Mac in the UK - so Personal Accountz is probably the best of an average lot, and let's face it, it isn't a bad piece of software. PC users should either go for the more user friendly MS Money, or - if you're after a proper ledger system - something like MYOB or SAGE.

Very easy to use
If you use Quicken to look after your finances, this software is a great replacement. However, there are no whistles or bells or graphs! You can download the reports you create to Excel and produce your own graphs.
Considering the product has been around for a number of years, there is still a lot of work to be undertaken if it is to compete with Microsoft Money.
If you buy this product, stick with it and it will pay dividends in the long term.

Personal Accountz
I spent half a day trying to get this to work but it is the most unuser friendly software I have come across. It needs dozens of accounts to be set up before a reasonable number of entries can be made and although it reconciles everything to zero only those who want to know how much they spend on widgets every year will persevere with the tedious process.

The report function is very limited and downloading bank accounts is a joke. I have reverted to Quicken 2004 which although no longer supported is much better. A complete waste of money.