A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board

[Bernie Goldberg]

Hi Jerry,
Thanks for the link.
Personal Stock monitor is more expensive than MS Money. Much more when you consider that I already own MS Money and the version that I have works fine and doesn't need to be updated. I believe my cost on the program was about $29.95 after the rebate I received.
I've got four accounts that I am managing for me and my wife plus four others for two other people who I manage some money for. Each month I do the updates manually. Not because I have to but ecause I prefer it that way. If I wanted to all I would have to do is press one button and update all the accounts automatically each month. Total expense about 30 seconds. The way I do it it takes a little longer than an hour a month or about 10 to 12 minutes per account. What the hell, I'm retired, I have to find things to do to take up my time. MS Money has over 14 different reports and in addition will export the data to tax preparation software. It uses FIFO, LIFO, HIFO, and average cost basis calculations. You can identify which individual shares of stock you want to sell. the government is far more restrictive in this parameter than the program is.
It updates the prices from the internet automatically. This I allow it to do since there are over 50 different stocks that I am following for the eight different accounts that I am working with.
Thanks again.
Bernie