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Posted by Steven Latus on November 7, 2006, 10:10 pm
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R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Steve.
>
> While there are changes in the UI, I don't see any difference in the
> functionality of Q2007B from Q2006B.
>
> All the real functionality of Quicken is in the Basic version. The
> higher-priced versions add mostly advice, reprints of government
> publications (now available free on the Internet) and specialized
> reporting - and fluff. At least, that's my impression after about 16
> years of using Quicken and TurboTax. Their version names have changed
> over the years; many of the functions (depreciation, payroll, etc.) in
> the current Home & Business versions could be very helpful to small
> business owners, but I'm only guessing about those since I haven't
> looked at them in over a decade.
>
> The one thing that I miss in the Basic version is the Tax Planner. But
> that suffers from so many weaknesses imposed by the nature of our
> changing tax laws that its usefulness is limited, anyhow. Since most of
> the actions I need to take come at the end of the year, I usually just
> wait until the first version of TurboTax hits the street. Then I load
> that and import my year-to-date numbers and see what I need to do before
> year-end. But, as I said, my situation has become much simpler since I
> retired. My practice definitely will NOT fit everybody.
>
> RC
We just downloaded Quicken Basic 2007 in our office today (no choice - a
client had just sent us his data in Q2007 format) and I saw that it does
indeed have the same investment functions as Q2006.
We're gonna have to get used to that new-age color scheme, though. ;|
We use BNA for tax planning so we don't need that functionality in Quicken.
Steve
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