Price played a very important part when calculating the VFM for these products. The most expensive product, Encore Lite, returned the worst VFM mark, while the three lowest priced packages did best. Instant Accounting 2000 scored so well thanks to its low cost, good usability and reasonable feature score, while Capital Lite 1.03 fared worse due largely to its poorer usability and the worst feature score in the review, despite being the least expensive product. Our Editors' choice, TAS Books Accounting, is more expensive than Instant Accounting 2000, but we feel its extra features, and still reasonable cost, put it ahead. This chart shows our assessment of the relative value for money for each of the products in this review.
Longer bars represent better value for money.
Products are sorted by price, with the highest price at the top. Where products have the same price, they are shown in alphabetical order. The resulting raw VFM scores are then made relative to the lowest-scoring product. To use the graph, first see which products fall within your chosen price range, by looking at the column of prices on the right. The best value product within that range is then the one with the longest bar.