The following list may be useful to you as a checklist if you're considering buying financial management software. The list was derived following a study of the various financial software packages on the market. Feel free to print this off and use it compare various financial management software products you may be thinking about buying:

• Account balances

• Budget Tools

• Taxation Calculator

• Download to spreadsheet functionality

• Scheduling future transactions

• Reporting functionality

• Interface with online banking

• Record of Investments

• Investment analysis

• Compute net worth

• Ability for online payment of bills

Some financial management software packages are available as an online solution rather than software you install on your pc. The benefit of this is that you:

- don't have to worry about the installation

- don't have to worry about the upgrades

- can access your financial management software from any pc with internet access.

- don't have to worry about data backups