Budgeting Software On A Shoestring Budget

[philly_mscl]

The best things in life are free, right?

 

 

Well, if you're adventurous and you can't really part with that $40-$80 but still want personal finance software where it can update your bank information online, projection reports, etc. there are alternatives.

 

 

KMyMoney is a Microsoft Money alternative that's actually fairly easy to use.

 

 

KMyMoney:

http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html

 

Moving from MSMoney to KMyMoney:

http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/01/09/...ey-to-kmymoney/

 

 

 

You can create an infinite level of accounts to categorize your expenses. It has every auto-typing feature similar to MSMoney so you can rapidly reconcile your accounts: checking, savings, brokerage, mortgage, etc.

 

 

Retail price: $0 You do need Linux however, to run it.

 

 

 

If you're using Widows, there is another free program called GnuCash. There is a Windows version available:

 

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=647059 download the EXE file from there, and visit:

 

http://www.gnucash.org/features.phtml to read the manual