Comments on: Help? I need software to manage my budget!

Question: Help? I need software to manage my budget!

idlm — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:46:01 -0800

I need software to manage my personal & business budget.

I need to find a piece of software that can manage my income and track all of my expenses. The thing is that I have the income from my job, the income my wife's job, plus I also do some side jobs that I need to keep track of the money that comes in from that. Then I have all of my expenses and I don't know where the money goes. I also need to keep track for my taxes at the end of the year so that I can write certain things off.

Can you recommend any software that can do that?

By: DJWeezy

DJWeezy — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:03:38 -0800

I dont know for sure but i am pretty mint.com can do that.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:46:00 -0800

Mvelopes.

By: jpdoane

jpdoane — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:44:57 -0800

Quicken? MSMoney?

By: Caviar

Caviar — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:25:15 -0800

I've been very happy with jgnash, which is free and cross-platform. Read their new user page, and especially the double-entry Wikipedia article linked from that, if you don't already have an understanding of how to use a double-entry accounting system.

jgnash can easily handle multiple income and expense accounts.

By: pu9iad

pu9iad — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:21:37 -0800

Gnucash is pretty good. Or try Pearbudget (an Excel file), if you want something a little less complicated.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:27:18 -0800

I've been using Money Manager X(Windows/Unix, I think), which does everything I need for a couple different income sources and expense tracking.

By: tdreyer1

tdreyer1 — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:29:49 -0800

I second GnuCash. I use it & love it!