How to Use Quicken to Track Your Loans
Quicken has the ability to keep track of all of your loans — not just how much you owe, but how much you pay each month, how much of that payment is interest, and how much of that payment reduces the amount [more…]
Dealing with Payroll Taxes in Quicken 2005
Make no mistake. Uncle Sam wants the money you withhold from an employee's payroll check for federal income taxes, Social Security, and Medicare. Uncle Sam also wants the payroll taxes you owe — such as [more…]
Entering a Check into the Quicken 2007 Register
To start working with Quicken, head to the Cash Flow Center, which looks and works (sort of) like a Web page. The Cash Flow Center provides clickable hyperlinks to some of the most popular banking and [more…]
Setting Up a Credit Card Account in Quicken 2006
If you want to track credit card spending and balances with Quicken 2006, you must set up a special credit card account. (In comparison, you use bank accounts to track other things, such as the money that [more…]
How to Track Stocks with Quicken Watch Lists
You can add stocks and other investments to your Quicken Watch List to help you track them. When you set up a Watch List, you can list stocks that you own, stocks that you want to own, stocks that are [more…]
How to Use Quicken’s Loan Calculator
You can enter any type of loan scenario and Quicken tells you how much your payments are going to be, how long it is going to take you to pay off a loan, and how much interest you are going to pay. You [more…]
Using Quicken 2007 to Track PayPal Transactions
If you use PayPal, you can and should use Quicken to track the money flowing into and out of your PayPal account. Fortunately, tracking a PayPal account with Quicken is pretty dang easy. [more…]
Set Up a Mutual Fund Investment Account with Quicken 2005
If you need to track a mutual fund investment in Quicken 2005, you need to know how to set up a mutual fund account and then record your investment activities. Even if you don't invest in mutual funds, [more…]
Splitting a Transaction in Quicken 2006
Here's a sort of Quicken riddle for you: Suppose that you have a check that pays more than one kind of expense. You trot down to the grocery store, for example, and pick up [more…]
Scheduling a Payment with the Quicken 2007 Calendar
If a payment occurs regularly — the payment might be for a loan or some other regular bill like your cable TV service — you can use Quicken to set it up as a scheduled payment. When you do so, Quicken [more…]
Setting Up Your First Accounts in Quicken 2003
If you've used a previous version of Quicken, the program asks if you want to convert your data to the new version. Do this. After you've upgraded from the older version, all your accounts should be ready [more…]
Using the Quicken 2006 Retirement Calculator
Imagine that you decide to jump into your employer's 401(k) thing (a type of profit-sharing plan) and that it allows you to plop $6,000 into a retirement account that you think will earn about 9 percent [more…]
Using the Investment Saving Calculator with Quicken 2004
The folks at Intuit provide several nifty little calculators (most are dialog boxes) with Quicken. At the very least, the calculators should make your work easier. And if you invest a little time, you [more…]
Calculating the Cost of College with Quicken 2004
Ouch. Take comfort in knowing that you are not alone. Millions of other parents are experiencing the same pain in their chest at the thought of financing a college education for their sons and daughters [more…]
