Over the past several months, I’ve written about a bunch of different accounting/book keeping applications which are freely available: GnuCash, Microsoft Office Accounting Express, QuickBook Starter Edition and various Excel spreadsheet templates. So today’s tip will add another one to the list, the open source application PostBooks. When you look at...

Over the past month or so, I have covered several different software packages for managing your personal and/or small business finances, so today I will provide some a resource to perhaps the most popular tool of all, Excel. On Microsoft Office Online, you can find lots of Excel Templates for managing budgets. Scrolling through the selections, everything from...

For people who run small businesses (or manage their personal finances like a business), I have written several times about GNUCash, but if it doesn’t quite work for you then another option you might want to consider is Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008. Much like all of Microsoft’s Express offerings, Office Accounting Express is completely...