Tip #2713 - Personal Finance Manager
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Personal
Finance Manager
I don’t know
about you, but when it comes to handling money and finances, I’m
about as organized as an Enron accountant. Bills constantly catch me off
guard, I have a real hard time saving up for anything huge and not to
mention, all the fan mail I get from credit card companies and banks.
This was how it was
until I got organized, made a plan and stuck with it. When I got organized,
the financial planets aligned for me and my credit score can vouch for
that. I couldn’t have gotten organized on my own though. I needed
help and being the type of person I am, I looked for a program that fit
the bill. I did my rounds, visited the usual online hotspots, all the
while getting myself familiar with all the current titles in the race.
There are a number of great titles out there, but one program from Software
Company, GFP had all the capabilities one could want with the added bonus
of being cost free!
Personal Finance Manager,
or PFM, as his friends call him, can help you get your financial keester
in gear. With the easy to use tools that cover every aspect of your personal
finances, it's not hard to do.
Here are a few of
the features PFM has to offer:
- In depth bank
account management with support for several accounts.
- Credit card management
database, which can be used to schedule payments, choose accounts in
which to be used for payment, along with keeping track of all your payments
and debts.
- You can input
and manage your investments easily.
- You can enter several
accounts with password protection, so others can use the program on
the same system while keeping the process secure.
- You can use PFM
to set appointments with the inclusion of a number of different details.
- Can generate reports
on a number of different aspects of the accumulated data, such as Revenues
vs. Expenses, Transaction Diary, Type of Transaction, Monthly Transaction
by Type, etc.
Personal Finance Manager
is a full featured program still in its fledgling state, with its most
recent release being on June 26, 2006. The project is still asking for
feedback and a function wish list from their users. GFP wants to use this
feedback to better help them develop the most useful software imaginable.
The PFM was also spawned from the Open Source Community, which means that
it was developed by the community with no money exchanged. This basically
means two things: one is that there will be upgrades and add ons for the
program for a long time to come and secondly, there will always be a free
copy of PFM available for download.
You can download PFM
here.
~ Chad Stelnicki
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