Money 99 Financial Suite

Money 99 doesn't neglect people who are self-employed and perhaps working from home either. The package continues to provide invoicing facilities, but these have now been linked to a full sales ledger of customers. You can produce professional-looking invoices, quotations, proformas and credit notes on your existing company letterhead or plain A4 paper. Optionally, a company logo can be printed along with invoice messages, individually and globally. VAT records are automatically updated just like a full business accounting system and, by using Money's categories and classes, you can analyse your invoices for useful reporting later.

If you're in business a little, but dabble in personal finance a lot, Money 99 is without equal for the moment. Personally, I'm still not entirely happy with the browser-style interface. Quicken's combination of icons and toolbars is a little more effective in general use, but newcomers might not find that to be the case.

With Money 99 Financial Suite's on-line banking features, Microsoft really has stolen a march on the competition, at least for the moment. Admittedly, some of that famous ease of use has been lost, and it all appears to be more daunting for the first-time user. But, if you fancy putting all your finances in order (and that's no mean feat), Money 99 will certainly do the job.

Author: Tim Woodward