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Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies Paperback – Sept. 2 2005

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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!

ISBN-10

0764599534
ISBN-13

978-0764599538
Edition

1st
Publisher

For Dummies
Publication date

Sept. 2 2005
Language

English
Dimensions

18.75 x 2.08 x 23.5 cm
Print length

360 pages
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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

About the Author

Peter Weverka is the bestselling author of several For Dummies books, including Office 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, and 29 other computer books about various topics. Peter’s books have been translated into 16 languages and sold three-quarter of a million copies. His humorous articles and stories — none related to computers, thankfully — have appeared in Harper’s, SPY, and other magazines for grown-ups.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 1st edition (Sept. 2 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764599534
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0764599538
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 511 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.75 x 2.08 x 23.5 cm

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Peter Weverka is the author of Word For Dummies Quick Reference, Microsoft Money For Dummies, and other computer books. His humorous nontechnology articles have also delighted readers of Harper's.

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Gary Nugent

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2018

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Good product

Holly Croydon

Great for getting started, but missing what I was really looking for

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2007

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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.

3 people found this helpful

LittleTazz

Decent . .

Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2010

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This is a decent book that tries hard to explain the working of a very confusing and poorly designed as in interface program.

Burdened with writing a book on Microsoft Money 2006 the author does a good job.

Unfortunately, the program is so counter-intuitive and basically extremely complex, as in needlessly the poor guy has a hell of a time explaining it.

Arthur

It does the job

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2015

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Better than the previous try.

Michael Anderson

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015

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