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I charge nearly everyting these days and still write a few checks. By downloading my statements from the bank directly into Quicken the only thing I need to do is put in the category. At the end of the year I know were every dollar other than a little cash has gone. This makes tax time significantly easier. Also makes forward planning / budgeting easy. Yes you can do it in MS Excel or MS Access but the time spent using Quicken is way less creating reports and doing backups. I've never used the investment features -- still do that in MS Excel Maybe one of these day will try that.

Wouldn't be without Quicken at twice the (free) price.