Finance Explorer 9.0.0

Overview

Finance Explorer is a personal finance management tool designed to help you keep track of your budget. It is Quicken and Microsoft Money compatible; it allows for quick import/export of your financial data. You can setup unlimited number of accounts: savings, retirement, investment, cash, credit card balance, loans, etc. You can view transactions based on a monthly criteria, or by net amount. Finance Explorer allows downloading stock quotes from Internet.

If keeping track of your expenditures has become a major problem, you could use personal finance software. This application is fit for personal use by non-professionals in accounting. Advanced users will find this program too simplistic and lacking a number of features found in other competitive and also free software and web based solutions.

Installation

Installation comes clean from adware, toolbars, nag screens and other irritating stuff. The program does not have special prerequisites to run, and it is fully Win OS compatible.

Interface

Finance Explorer sports an ascetic GUI which features rather self-descriptive modules. The layout is clean and user-friendly. Overall, navigating this program is an easy endeavor even for novice users.

Pros

Finance Explorer is quite a simplistic application if you compare it to other free personal finance management solutions. It is easy to navigate and import bank statements in supported formats. Creating budgets is a simple task. If you are looking for a small program that can do a bit more than a spreadsheet, give it a try.

Cons

Simplicity has a downside, too. The program does not support excel files import. We did not succeed in importing an OFX file, either. The Tutorial says we should convert unsupported files to supported formats. It remains unclear how imported data relates to created budgets within an account. It is MS Money and Quicken compatible, making import of your financial data easier. You can also print out your reports.

Categories and groups cannot be pre-defined, leaving users with a necessity to type the assignment each time they create an entry. When you move an entry from one group or category to another, you have to manually type the assignment.

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