Quicken 2008 Home & Business
The Qualifier Plus IIIx is the most versatile and easy-to-understand residential mortgage calculator on the market. Provide fast and accurate payment solutions and qualify buyers on the spot! Perfect for all real estate finance professionals - including agents, brokers, bankers, mortgage originators, title officers and trainers. The kit is a convenient, carefully assembled package that combines the Qualifier Plus IIIx calculator with a Quick Start Tutorial CD and a comprehensive workbook. It covers all facets of residential real estate finance including buyer qualifying for agents and brokers. It also provides brokers, bankers, loan officers and other real estate professionals with complete mortgage solutions. This valuable training tool is designed for students and seasoned professionals. .
Quicken Home&Business 2008 brings your personal and business finances together for a complete view of your financial picture. Get smart business tracking tools to track expenses you paid for with a personal account. The redesigned Business Center gives you an overall snapshot for what’s going out from your accounts, what’s coming in during the month and what’s left. Quicken remembers the first time you enter a business transaction to avoid needing to enter the same data twice. This applies to similar entries in the future to help identify transactions you enter as business or personal, income or expenses, with just a single click. Bring your personal and business accounts such as banks, 401(k) or other IRA, online brokerages together in one place. Avoid surprises during tax time by categorizing deductions and instantly see your status throughout the year with the business tax deduction summary. See a monthly calendar of your paychecks, bills and expenses to help you schedule bills, set reminders and help avoid late fees. Quicken Home&Business exports your data directly to TurboTax, so you won’t have to re-enter the same information twice.
Customer Review: Home and Business
It is good, but I am still learning. There were no directions included in the product.
Customer Review: Save your PATH before installing!!!
I upgraded from Quicken 2005 to 2008. I had a couple issues you should know about if you’re planning to install/upgrade:
After installing, my PATH system environment variable was truncated to just the most basic: ‘%SystemRoot%system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%System32Wbem’. All the paths added by all my program installations were blown away. I only figured this out after my Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m started to blue-screen when trying to connect to a wireless network. It turns out that many programs stopped working, some completely. This is a horrible bug, and not the most obvious thing to look for when you have problems. So, if you have not yet already installed, PLEASE save your path so you can restore it afterwards: Right-click ‘My Computer’; Click Advanced, Environment Variables, select PATH, click edit. Copy the value, save it in a text file, so you can restore it after the install.
As for the Quicken 2008 software itself, I guess I’m happy enough, but there are some disappointments. I was hoping to use one-step-update with my bank’s checking account, but my bank uses an ‘enhanced-security’ login process which ‘remembers’ your computer with a cookie; if you don’t have the cookie (quicken one-step-update does not), it prompts with one of three ‘challenge’ questions. Quicken is not smart enough to remember the answers to these, and so every time it connects, it prompts for an answer to one of the security questions; in fact, with multiple accounts (checking, savings, credit-line), it prompts once for each account! Definitely NOT convenient. So I continue to manually download account activity, which now has added one more step — a ‘One Step Update Summary’ window always appears after each download, so I now have to close that. There is a checkbox at the bottom: “Show this dialog only if there is an error”, but no matter how many times I check it, it always shows the dialog.
Other than that, I’m happy enough, and continue to use it much as I used the 2005 version. .
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