Organize Your Finances With Quicken Deluxe 98 : In a Weekend
   by Diane Tinney, Michael Meadhra, Gail Perry

    Learn to use Quicken for personal financial advantage while learning organizational skills and habits that will last
    a lifetime. CPA Gail Perry combines long-term financial planning and day-to-day financial maintenance skills with
    step-by-step guidance for learning Quicken.

Book Description

                    The great bull market storms on, and the odds are good that you fall into one of two camps.
                     Maybe you've been investing frequently and would benefit by having investment tools to manage
                     your additional money. Alternately, maybe your finances are a disaster of record keeping and
                     you need to get things into shape in order to start investing. Quicken 98 Deluxe can benefit both
                     kinds of people, and this book can help you get the most out of Quicken.

                     Organized around a weekend, this guide schedules certain lessons for Saturday morning, others
                     for Saturday night, and so on. Since it seems improbable that anyone will spend every minute of
                     a weekend exploring Quicken, this organizational structure has little practical utility. Still, the
                     authors--one of whom is a certified public accountant--present a complete documentation of
                     Quicken Deluxe 98 in these pages, and the book is valuable for that reason.

                     They begin by explaining the oldest feature of Quicken--the checkbook. After getting into
                     computer-generated checks and online banking (some of the program's least-used features), the
                     authors explain investment accounts. Quicken does a poor job of accounting for things such as
                     options and warrants, shortcomings of the program that are certainly not the authors' faults.
                     However, the reader would benefit from the inclusion of "work-around" ways to record more exotic
                     transactions in terms Quicken can understand. Before wrapping up with an exposition of
                     Quicken's planning tools, the authors explore reports, charts and graphs, and the tools Quicken
                     provides for tax planning.

Synopsis
                     Quicken is generally intuitive, but it has some sticky parts. This book stands as a fine resource to
                     help you through the obstacles.