If you’re looking at tax software or online filing services, keep in mind that the less complicated your return is … the more likely you can use the free or cheaper options. ConsumerSearch.com has an easy-to-understand comparison chart recommending “best tax software” for a variety of situations.

I started a financial software series around the New Year’s holiday on the thought that if I was working on my bookkeeping for fiscal year 2009, then my readers might also be doing that too. I haven’t had a lot of time for researching special topics during the past two weeks,  so that project stalled [...]

Got an iPhone? There are financial apps you can download to help you manage your household budget. Mint.com has some recommendations at 10 iPhone Finance Apps That Count. Another roundup can be found at iPhone Gems: Every Personal Finance Application, Reviewed.

I will tell you up front that I have used Quicken’s Mac products since 1996 – but I really do not like Quicken 2007. It is a way more complicated piece of software now than what I need or want. That being said, Quicken has a lot of fans. Obviously, it is the right software [...]

Crown Financial Ministries is a program that I’ve known about it for 20 years, when just the print workbooks and resource books were available under the Christian Financial Concepts banner. I haven’t used any of CFM’s software. I’ve read the books, listened to the radio show, and accessed the free web resources. But CFM does [...]

Are you looking for comparisons on free personal software download options? About.com did a roundup at 7 free personal finance software downloads. The featured services include PearBudget and Ace Money Light.

I’ll be looking at a variety of personal finance software and services in my financial software series. Random pick for the first feature: Bento for Mac. Bento technically isn’t financial software, it’s organization software. But the financially-reated features include a donation log, equipment inventory, home inventory, job search organization, “my house search, ” home maintenance [...]

I started using paper financial workbooks for my household budget in 1990 and upgraded to computer financial records in 1996. I quickly discovered that it is SO much easier to handle household bookkeeping via computer. My ongoing headache is I lost a lot of data during a hard drive crash some time back, and I [...]

I admit: I’m a Quicken user. My husband and I have tracked our household finances on Quicken software since we bought our first Macintosh home computer in 1996. I don’t use all the features, and I’ve got some serious debugging to do in my database with entry errors I made in the past. But the [...]