Product Description

Manage your finances with help from this official guide to the latest release of the world's #1 personal finance software! Endorsed and reviewed by Intuit, this resource offers up-to-date coverage of the newest product tools as well as the classic features. Learn to manage your money and investments, and track and regulate spending, savings, budgets, banking, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1473349 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 550 pages

From the Back Cover
Expertly Manage Your Finances with this Official Guide to the World's #1 Personal Finance Software!

Save time and money, organize your finances, and track your investments with Quicken 2003 and this helpful book! Reviewed and endorsed by Intuit, makers of Quicken, this official guide provides full coverage of Quicken's fresh new interface--as well as the full array of features that make Quicken the top-selling personal finance software. Manage your money and investments--including spending, savings, budgets, banking, and more. Discover plenty of useful tips and worksheets to assist in all your financial decisions. Chapters closely follow the software to help you find information quickly and easily. Quicken 2003: The Official Guide offers the time- and money-saving help you need to reach your financial goals!

Inside, you'll find out how to:

• Manage bank, credit card, and investment accounts
• Automate Quicken transactions and tasks
• Balance your checkbook
• Schedule payments and paycheck deposits
• Track your portfolio with online stock quotes and securities news
• Do your taxes more quickly and effectively
• Take control of monthly expenses--including loans and mortgages
• Plan for your retirement, major purchases, and other events
• Use online banking and bill-paying features
• Reduce your debt and save for the future
• Get valuable financial information and advice from Quicken.com

About the Author
Maria Langer (Wickenberg, Arizona) is a freelance writer, computer consultant and trainer, and the Owner/President of Giles Road Press. She divides her time between writing computer books--19 so far including Quicken 99: The Official Guide, articles, and software documentation; developing training material; teaching software applications and hardware troubleshooting; and designing and creating World Wide Web pages for clients.

Customer Reviews

Help Screens
Aside from a few tidbits, I didn't find this book much more helpful than reading the help screens within Quicken itself. I guess since it is in book form it is easier to reference than the screens but I was looking for a book that offered insight into using Quicken, not how to navigate menus. This book follows the ol' "If you want do this, do that" format which I really believe is beneath most computer users these days. I had to re-enter a lot of data having found things out myself rather than through the book. I bought the book specifically for this purpose and found it worthless in this regard. I was looking for something that related Quicken to real life situations e.g., where to find the reams of data that Quicken requests, how a complicated financial statement translates into a Quicken entry, the pros and cons of entering the same transaction different ways in Quicken, and the different ways to set up the same portfolio, to name a few. More examples would have been useful.

pretty shallow even for beginner, look elsewhere
I purchased this book to get detailed info on various aspects of Quicken 2003 practical usage. This book offers merely a description of menus and features - no deeper insight how to tackle more serious challenges, which will inevitably arise in the moment you will create multiple checking & credit card accounts, start to transfer funds in between them, run the reports etc.

The problem is that the book tells you not much more then what is obvious from the interface to any computer literate user; if you're in doubt, you can still check online help. In all honesty, I found the basic 70 page long user guide which comes with boxed Quicken more helpfull then this book....

Just a sample of the quality and depth of information offered by this book, randomly opened at the pages below:

pages 210-211: "Another new feature....is that the report window is automatically minimized to the Quicken task bar when you click outside the window...to view the report again, click it's name in the taskbar and the report reappears."

.. I bet nobody would ever figure this out without having to look for info inside this book. I think that giving this book 2 stars out of 5 I'm still doing a favor to the author and the publisher.

Quicken 2004 Premier home and business
This book DOES NOT COVER anything to do with the Small Business side of the program. I was very disappointed in it.