Letting your kids use financial software is quite beneficial as this will help them learn valuable skills such as wise use of money and budgeting. There is a wide range of financial software for kids in the market today giving you a variety of choices for your kids. Here is a look at five of the most popular in the market. Kids Save Software With Kids Save, your child will learn to monitor money through rewards incentives and helps them establish and track their goals. This program will help your child make deposits ad withdrawals using automated allowance and rewards…
Personal Finance Software
According to the name, this is budgeting software that will help its users to manage their money better. With Mvelopes, you can set money aside for every need you have and track all your expenses. This will help you a lot with spending and saving in the future. Mvelopes is an application that will track all kinds of accounts; mortgage accounts, personal accounts, business accounts, retirement accounts and even investment accounts. Anyone who wants to keep a strict budget and look at every aspect of their spending should make use of this software. For those who have a very simple…
I use two brokers for my personal need before I tried Zecco. MB Trading platform and Merill Lynch which came along with my Bank of America Checking account as an additional benefit. I would say it was probably only boon for me from the stock market collapse of 2008. You may want to read my earlier review of MB Trading, which I found one of the very best in business. I have been using Zecco just for the sake of comparison. As MB Trading started a recent no-activity fee which is irritating to me. Now I do think I would…
How many of you get excited by seeing past 52 week low and high and think of buying at next low? We even calculate the hypothetical gain we would have made had we bought at the bottom and sold at the peak. Alas, that is not possible for any one. As tricky as winning a lottery. We always know the past, we have no way to know future. Chaikin Portfolio Health Check is a subscription service invented by stock market expert Marc Chaikin and his firm with an aim to tell future. While writing this review, I haven’t had enough time to…
Mint.com is a web based financial tool that helps you put your budget in order. It consolidates all your financial data in one place, and is equipped with simple and powerful features like simple alerts for bills or payments and goal-oriented accounting that even charts your progress towards a financial objective. When used in conjunction with your credit cards, Mint.com can even advice you on which card to use in exchange for the information of how you use your credit cards, which can lead to either less cost or even savings. You can use Mint.com for anything financial, from investments,…
Debt usage determines 30% of your credit score. The better you handle your debts, the better your credit score comes out. This is the goal of Credit Karma, a company based in San Francisco, that offers free credit scores for its consumers. The information from credit scores can guide Credit Karma users into better credit health by monitoring the effects of their financial decisions on their credit scores when the change happens, and adjust their actions accordingly. To write Credit karma review, I signed up for their account. The process is extremely smooth. yes, there is a risk involved when…
The earliest version of Microsoft Money was way back in 1991, under the the Windows operating system version 3.0. Since then, 17 versions of the financial software have been made. Managing personal finances was easy with the use of graphical interfaces Microsoft products are known for, and the constant support from Microsoft brought users to Microsoft Money as a preferred tool for managing their investments, portfolios and expenses. However, last December 31, 2011, Microsoft officially ended supporting Microsoft Money. In the interim, Microsoft is encouraging all users of Microsoft Money to use Microsoft Money Plus Sunset, an application that can…
This is a re-post of my Yodlee Money center review at One Cent at a Time. I track my net worth using Yodlee, I track my budget and spending through Yodlee money center. I have also experimented with a few other financial accounting tools like quicken online and mint.com. Here;s why I like Yodlee most. Why I use Yodlee Money Center? There are many reasons, for the sake of keeping this post to a readable length, I will just stick to a few. 1. Money Center has been around for over 10 years. Thus, you can definitely count on the products and services they offer. In…
