{"id":2365,"date":"2011-03-08T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=2365"},"modified":"2011-03-23T12:47:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T16:47:48","slug":"kmymoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/kmymoney\/","title":{"rendered":"KMyMoney. Free Personal Accounting Software."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2399\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BILL-PILES.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2399\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2399\" title=\"BILL PILES\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BILL-PILES-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"With KMyMoney, say goodbye to stacks of paper and piles of bills!\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BILL-PILES-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BILL-PILES.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With KMyMoney, say goodbye to stacks of paper and piles of bills!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Personal computers are absolutely wonderful for keeping our financial household straight. There are many financial software applications available for keeping our checkbooks balanced.\u00a0 (And by the way, if you&#8217;re NOT using a PC and some form of personal accounting software, you are really missing out on a terrific tool!)<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve used the two main personal financial software powerhouses on the market, Quicken and MSMoney. Both are fine personal financial software programs, and quite easy to set up and use.<\/p>\n<p>But they come with an initial cost.\u00a0 Anywhere from $50.00 on up.\u00a0 MSMoney is about the same price.\u00a0 However, <a title=\"MSMoney Discontinued\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13860_3-10261742-56.html\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft has discontinued this software title.<\/a> So, you may be able to pick up a used copy for a few dollars less.\u00a0 In fact, I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00009L1HS?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=oneclilin-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00009L1HS\">Microsoft Money 2004 Standard<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=oneclilin-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00009L1HS\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> on Amazon.com for as little $19.00.<\/p>\n<p>Or, you can make the switch to Linux and install a FREE personal\u00a0 financial software application.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <a title=\"KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/kmymoney2.sourceforge.net\/index-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">KMyMoney<\/a> and it has all the power and features you&#8217;ll ever need to keep your finances in order.<\/p>\n<p>KMyMoney is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free<\/li>\n<li>Powerful<\/li>\n<li>Accurate<\/li>\n<li>Easy to use and set up<\/li>\n<li>Familiar<\/li>\n<li>Manages as many accounts as you want<\/li>\n<li>Offers Online banking<\/li>\n<li>Offers data encryption for extra security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using MSMoney for years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s done a very good job.\u00a0 But, since moving to Linux, I&#8217;ve been looking for a totally Linux solution to my personal finance needs.<\/p>\n<p>Since Microsoft made the decision last year to discontinue MSMoney, it was clear that it was time to make the move.<\/p>\n<p>I suggest that when you do move to KMyMoney, make a clean start.\u00a0 Even though MSMoney and Quicken give you tools to export your financial data into a QIF, the file sometimes doesn&#8217;t translate over as reliably as we&#8217;d like.\u00a0 I took this piece of advice from Scott Carpenter on his blog called <a title=\"Moving To Freedom - KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/movingtofreedom.org\/2008\/01\/09\/moving-from-ms-money-to-kmymoney\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Moving to Freedom.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can also get a nice overview and <a title=\"KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/kmymoney2.sourceforge.net\/index-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">screen shots of KMYmoney <\/a>at the KMyMoney web site at <a title=\"KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/kmymoney2.sourceforge.net\/index-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/kmymoney2.sourceforge.net\/index-home.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I started from zero, so to speak.\u00a0 I made note of my ending bank balances, entered these and a few other transactions to get things caught up, and then started using KMyMoney.\u00a0 I also continued to use MSMoney just to make sure things were working out and being recorded correctly in KMyMoney.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears to have worked and I&#8217;m now ready to cut the strings on MSMoney and use KMyMoney exclusively.\u00a0 I will, however, need to keep my MSMoney data file for archival purposes.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more information regarding the features of KMyMoney, <a title=\"Moving To Freedom - KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/movingtofreedom.org\/2008\/01\/09\/moving-from-ms-money-to-kmymoney\/\" target=\"_blank\">I highly recommend Scott Carpenter&#8217;s blog post.\u00a0 He gives a very thorough review of KMyMoney. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Moving To Freedom - KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/movingtofreedom.org\/2008\/01\/09\/moving-from-ms-money-to-kmymoney\/\" target=\"_blank\">His review<\/a>, along with Microsoft&#8217;s abandonment of MSMoney, convinced me to give KMyMoney a try.\u00a0 I hope it convinces you, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Get <a title=\"PCLinuxOS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pclinuxos.com\" target=\"_blank\">Linux <\/a>and then get <a title=\"KMyMoney\" href=\"http:\/\/kmymoney2.sourceforge.net\/index-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">KMyMoney<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal computers are absolutely wonderful for keeping our financial household straight. 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