Product Description

The Only Intuit-Authorized Guide to the #1 Personal Finance Software

Manage your finances and assets quickly and easily using the expert techniques inside Quicken 2008: The Official Guide. Discover how to make the most of all the new and improved features and track your income, expenses, savings, transactions, investments, and more.

Fully endorsed by Intuit, makers of Quicken, this official guide will help you save time and money by showing you how to maximize the software's powerful capabilities--including many that you may not even know about. You'll get valuable insider tips and find out about online resources that will help guide you in making sound financial decisions and planning for a secure future.

• Customize Quicken for your preferences
• Track your cash flow
• Set up Online Account Services
• Automate transactions and tasks
• Reconcile checking, savings, and credit card accounts
• Track investments and optimize your portfolio
• Monitor assets and loans
• Manage household records
• Reduce debt, save money, and plan for retirement
• Simplify tax preparation and maximize deductions

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #250581 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

About the Author

Maria Langer is a freelance writer, helicopter pilot, and long-time Quicken user. A former financial analyst with a degree in accounting, she is the bestselling author of the previous editions of this book.

Customer Reviews

Don't wate your time
This book is definitley not worth the money. It's light weight and doesn't give enough information. It's padded and there are better. In a book about Quicken, why would they waste space talking about where to shop for better mortgage rates. Better to talk more about how to use their tool.

Instead of this book, I would recommend, "Quicken 2008 - The Missing Manual", or if you can't get that book then get "Quicken 2008 for Dummies".

"Official Guide"
Yes, this is the "Official Guide" written by someone who is admitedly and obviously closely aligned (read: in-bed) with the Intuit "folks" as they are referred to in this book. There are plenty of problems with the Quicken software (as with any software package), but this book doesn't even admit to let alone address any of them. This "Guide" isn't much more help than the help screens that come with Quicken itself. I also purchased "Quicken 2008 for Dummies" and would recommend it or another book written from a more independent perspective over this one. Much of this is just a glorification of Quicken which I can do without - I already purchased the software.

What's what!!!
I would like to see accounts, categories, recordings, reconciling, cash flow,... performed first, and then online banking and investing as an options at the end of the book. After all, I bought Quicken as tool to setup accounts, cash flow, debt, and property.... I can look into online banking and investing when all else satisfactory. This book doesn't do this in that order. I think it trying to promote online banking and investing. I been following these quicken books for years and they all seem to promote online banking and investing, and not why I bought Quicken. I want to setup my accounts first and maybe use online banking and maybe invest.