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Review: Taxcalc Personal Lite office software

Anthony Dhanendran — 2008-08-20T15:13:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 15:13:00

Get your affairs in order

For the self-employed, summer means it's time to start thinking about tax, as the returns for the previous year start to become due....

Review: Taxcalc utility software

Anthony Dhanendran — 2007-10-08T00:00:00.000Z

Anthony Dhanendran, Computeract!ve, Monday 8 October 2007 at 00:00:00

Get your affairs in order

Since HM Revenue and Customs (formerly the Inland Revenue) made it possible to file a tax return online, it's been a (slightly) less stressful task....

Review: Tesco Personal Finance personal finance software

Andrea-Marie Vassou — 2007-01-17T00:00:00.000Z

Andrea-Marie Vassou, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 17 January 2007 at 00:00:00

Get your accounts in order, on the cheap

After enjoying Tesco’s Photorestyle software, we were confident that its budget bookkeeping cousin, would equally impress us. Easy to install and licenses for two computers, Tesco Personal Finance also comes...

Review: Sage Start-Up personal finance software

Paul Wardley — 2006-06-22T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Wardley, Computeract!ve, Thursday 22 June 2006 at 00:00:00

Accounting software with an interesting twist

A third of UK businesses already use Sage financial software so the company has something of a problem when it comes to finding new customers....

Review: Intuit QuickBooks Regular personal finance software

Paul Wardley — 2006-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Wardley, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 12 April 2006 at 00:00:00

A small Personal Finance software system that grows with your company or home business

The information accompanying our review copy of Intuit QuickBooks is refreshingly honest in stating that the program's main aim is to ease the tedium of bookkeeping....

Quickbooks Simple Start

Tim Smith — 2005-08-01T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 1 August 2005 at 00:00:00

Ideal for the home business

Quickbooks Simple Start allows you to easily create invoices, track expenses, run the reports needed for a VAT return as well as a Profit and Loss account....

MYOB BusinessBasics

Tim Smith — 2005-07-04T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 4 July 2005 at 00:00:00

Accounting for the small business or self-employed

MYOB BusinessBasics is aimed at the self employed or very small businesses for the crucial task of keeping accurate and clear accounts....

Accountz Personal Accounts

Tim Smith — 2005-03-30T09:56:30.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 30 March 2005 at 09:56:30

A good, but basic, package

Nobody likes doing accounts but Personal Accounts keeps things as simple as possible.The Accounts window is used to set up the different accounts for your real bank accounts and for...

Microsoft Money 2004

John Rennie — 2003-11-26T10:28:45.000Z

John Rennie, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 26 November 2003 at 10:28:45

Microsoft is back with the latest cut of its finance package but is it worth reinvesting when there was nothing lacking last time around?

Another year, another version of Money and Microsoft has to address the paradox once again - when you're selling a simple piece of software and you got it right so...

Home Finance for Dummies

Emilie Martin — 2003-10-09T10:56:15.000Z

Emilie Martin, Computeract!ve, Thursday 9 October 2003 at 10:56:15

A program to help you sort out your budget.

Developed for those who have trouble staying on the fiscal straight and narrow each month, Home Finance for Dummies is a basic balance sheet application that helps you keep track...

Microsoft Money 2003 Standard

James Taylor — 2003-03-31T15:54:41.000Z

James Taylor, Computeract!ve, Monday 31 March 2003 at 15:54:41

Who knows more about money than Microsoft?

If you need to apply some sort of order to your finances, Microsoft Money offers a wealth of features that aim to keep personal finances manageable.One of the most obvious...

Intuit Quicken 2002

John Rennie — 2002-08-15T10:17:59.000Z

John Rennie, Computeract!ve, Thursday 15 August 2002 at 10:17:59

Manage your money on your PC.

Do you know exactly how much you have in your current account? Is your monthly budget worked out to the penny and your mortgage, pension and life assurance planned to...

Microsoft Money 2002 Financial Suite

James Taylor — 2002-03-07T12:30:38.000Z

James Taylor, Computeract!ve, Thursday 7 March 2002 at 12:30:38

Microsoft's personal accounting software gets an update for 2002.

Another year and the new Microsoft Money software is here again. As before, it comes in three flavours - Standard at £30, Financial Suite as reviewed here at £50, and...