Article: Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007: manage your money for free.(accounting software)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)

GIVEN THAT IT'S FREE, Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007 is a good choice for morn-and-pop shops that need accounting software on the cheap. If you're new to accounting software in general, it's worth a try.

In our tests, it took nearly an hour to install the program (a 338MB download) under Windows XP. But once we got it running, the clean, flowchart-style interface, which borrows more than a few design concepts from Intuit's QuickBooks, drew us in. It's easy to set up a company and manage the accounting basics, such as invoicing, payments, general ledger, accounts payable, and online banking. (For the latter, hundreds of financial institutions are ...

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