You can reconcile your bank statements
Easy balancing of your checkbooks
Tractability of spending and budget
Automatically categorize expenses
Monitor all accounts you have in one setting
Download the necessary bank and credit card information
Online bill pay
Conducts research and receive prepared investment alerts
Creates investment performance reports
Portfolio balance and analysis
Tax reports A, B and D can be generated
Shows different options for taxes
Electronic statements storage
Planned savings for retirement, college or other investments
Track 401k and other investments
Search by keywords
Convertibility of reports to PDF
Attaching ability of electronic images
On demand Internet content

Cons

Some need to learn the software
Limitations with some printing options
Issues with hard drive space requirements
Column width issues
Maximum screen windows supportability
No import/export for data of investment accounts
Scanning function ability

Overall Quicken is one of the most widely used financial tracking software. Even with the few cons involved, the overall benefit out weighs the problems.

Quicken conveys a great use of versatility and reliability over all other financial software. Each of the financing software's like Quicken and MS Money offer the standard, deluxe, and premium packages.

The software is pretty basic if you know the basics of your finances and a computer that uses Windows software. However if you move up to the premium option, there is a bit more of the investment and tax management features therefore there is a little more training involved with that level of the software.

Quicken is a little more high priced, however overall the price difference is weighed out in the usability and features.

Quicken has some nice options that help you manage your overall finances with links through their My Quicken web page. https://quicken.intuit.com/commerce/catalog/category.jhtml?categoryId=cat0000000000006334932

The links are listed here:

Portfolio
Investing Center
Quicken Account Data
WebEntry
Quicken Bill Pay
Quicken Credit Card
CreditCheck Monitoring

Through these options you can work with your finances to make sure all of the needed areas are tracked and covered.

Quicken will help you take control of your finances with limited training and support. You will spend less time working on the finances today and more time planning on the finances for tomorrow. Your future needs to be watched and worked on, however when you are taking all your time to track what you are doing now, you forget to look at the future financial options.

Quicken is part of the Intuit family of software, the same creators of QuickBooks and TurboTax. The integrated award winning products are created with the consumer in mind.

There are added areas for health care tracking and home business needs. This helps with the areas of finances that go beyond the standard tracking of the family needs. The healthcare tracking will help you manage all of the different areas of insurance, the coverage of the insurances and tracking of other financial aspects of the healthcare needs. The home business tracks the expenses, income, and everything in between. Therefore making it much easier at tax time to get the tax breaks you deserves.