Quicken 2015
Subtitle: the official guide
By: Bobbi Sandberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780071850391
Subjects: Personal Finance; Quicken (Computer file); Investments; Computer programs
Description: "Take control of your personal finances using the best practices and time-saving tips in Quicken 2015: the official guide!"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Learning Quicken basics. 1. Installing Quicken and meeting its features : What is Quicken? ; Getting started ; The Quicken interface ; Accounts ; Using one step update and the password vault; title: 2. Getting started with Quicken : How financial transactions are tracked ; As you begin ; Accounts; title: 3. Getting up and running with Quicken mobile : Understand mobile applications ; Meet Quicken's mobile app ; Beginning with Quicken's mobile app ; Using your mobile device; title: 4. Working with accounts, categories, and tags : Setting up other banking accounts ; Categories ; Tags; title: pt. 2. Banking. 5. Recording bank and credit card transactions : Getting started ; Quicken's registers ; Working with existing transactions ; Quicken's other account features; title: 6. Using online banking features : Online account services ; The online center ; Bills and income reminders ; Useful Quicken features ; About alerts; title: 7. Reconciling your accounts and examining your banking activity : Reconciling bank accounts ; Other reconciliation tasks and features ; A closer look at the spending tab; title: pt. 3. Managing your investment accounts. 8. Working with investment transactions and Quicken's research tools : Quicken investment basics ; Working with investment accounts ; Working with the security list ; Downloading quotes and investment information ; Using Investing.Quicken.com for updates; title: 9. Monitoring assets and loans : The basics ; Creating property and debt accounts ; Loan accounts in Quicken ; Other asset transactions; title: pt. 4. Understanding your financial position. 10. Keeping tabs on your net worth : The property & debt tab; title: 11. Evaluating your position : Using the investing tab ; Using investment analysis tools; title: pt. 5. Designing your financial future. 12. Planning your future and using financial calculators : Planning for retirement ; Getting started with the Quicken lifetime planner ; The "what if" alternatives ; A look at Quicken's financial calculators ; Using the financial calculators; title: 13. Reducing debt and saving money : Reducing your debt ; Budgeting with Quicken ; Quicken's automatic budget ; Where does your money go?; title: 14. Planning for tax time : Tax information in accounts and categories ; Tax reports ; Online tax tools ; About Turbo-Tax ; Planning to avoid surprises ; Meeting the estimators; title: 15. Creating Quicken reports : Quicken reports overview ; Working with reports and graphs; title: pt. 6. Appendixes. A. Managing Quicken files : Working with multiple data files ; Password-protecting Quicken data ; Backing up your Quicken data file ; Additional file procedures; title: B. Customizing Quicken : Customizing Quicken's interface ; Setting preferences ; Useful tips ; Quicken emergency records organizer.