Comments on: Why I Use Quicken Rather Than Excel to Track Our Expenses

By: Financial Filing Systems « Eliminate The Muda!

Financial Filing Systems « Eliminate The Muda! — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:32:36 +0000

[...] use Quicken as well to keep track of both personal and business [...]

By: Mrs. Accountability

Mrs. Accountability — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:36:00 +0000

Hi Funny, your reply makes me want to start using Excel instead of Quicken! I do love Excel, and it is true that you don’t have to keep upgrading. I actually didn’t have any problems using Quicken 99 since 2000. I forget why I upgraded… I was able to import everything from 99 without incident though. Anyway… I do use Excel to keep a checklist of what is due bi-monthly. Thanks for your input!

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:11:09 +0000

This January for the first time I decided to switch from Quicken to Excel. It’s taken a long while, but I think I’ve finally learned enough about Excel to make it work.

Tho’ I’ve always liked Quicken, when I went over from the PC to the Mac I found the Macinoid version is kinda clunky. Also, Quicken forces you to keep upgrading every couple of years — if you don’t, after a while, your computer crashes and you’re forced to buy a new version; then you’ll find it won’t read your “old” data at all. Each new version grows more and more bloated with features that I don’t use and I don’t want to have to learn or figure out how to suppress.

Excel works across platforms, and there’s no nonsense about running out an buying an expensive new program every time you turn around.

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:59:50 +0000

I used to use excel for everything but it’s gotten a bit complicated. Last year I used the free version of Quickbooks to track business expenses and income, but this year I’m thinking of trying Quicken for both home and business.

By: Camera

Camera — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:26:01 +0000

Me personally I keep a notebook and I write down rent, food, gas, car, etc and I write how much gas and food I spend a week and write down my other expenditures to me its better than using a computer.

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:30:30 +0000

I use Excel. Mainly because I like manually playing with numbers, figuring out budgets based on scenarios. Plus we have fairly few transactions per month so it’s not a burden to enter them manually in Excel (your stack of receipts was outrageous to me!). And then there’s the money factor – Excel was “free” for us (came with the computer) and we’d have to go buy Quicken. So – Excel wins for us!