08/20/2003, 9:00am, EDT
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Intuit ships Quicken 2004 for the Mac
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Through the updated investment portfolio, customers can monitor all their investments in one place and easily view their net worth with very little effort. Customers can also download detailed quotes, asset classes and the Morningstar Rating of their funds and receive at-a-glance insight into the performance of their investments through 25 new performance indicators, new news alerts, automatic retrieval of the asset class and industry sector for stocks and funds, and categorization the portfolio to assist the customer in rebalancing.
"Our research shows that more than 90 percent of our customers own investments and the majority keep track of those investments using Quicken," said Aruna Harder, Quicken product manager. "We provide the tools to help them understand how their investments are doing in a quick and painless manner."
Keeping up with the market and staying in control of a portfolio can be difficult for any investor.
Quicken 2004 can also track important financial events in a single combined calendar with their personal and business activities, while its Emergency Records Organizer enables customers to store the essential details and location of important documents such as insurance papers, financial accounts, wills, and medical records.
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posted by d_arislan
Also connects to some banks and even Discover Card for downloading statements.
You can download and try first (100 transaction limit?)
Not perfect, but no major problems in about 3 weeks of use.
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Prior owners of Quicken products are eligible for a $20 mail-in rebate with the purchase of Quicken 2004 Deluxe, Quicken 2004 Premier, Quicken 2004 Premier Home & Business, or Quicken 2004 for Mac(Macintosh) at a participating retailer. The $20 Upgrader is not available on purchases made directly from Intuit. Customers purchasing direct from Intuit are eligible for a $10 instant rebate, you can purchase Quicken 2004 today at www.shopintuit.com.
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Sorry, you are completely wrong!!!! Its not a ported app. If it was ported, it would have more features and functions, and wouldn't have some of the bugs Quicken Mac has (I bought 100 shares of Apple stock a few months ago at $18. It went up to $20. Now, that should be a $200 gain and something like a 12% gain. But while the %gain number in the portfolio was correct, the ROI - return on investment - showed a completely different number, when they should be identical. Oh, and the Net Worth graphs shows me having $25000 more money then the Net Worth reports!).
Rather than a port, this is more of a "kind of copy" of the Windows version, where they don't bother with some features, and certainly don't fix the bugs from previous versions. Its sort of like Word.
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The way I understand it is that its the banks who are responsible for the connections, not Quicken. So, it depends on the bank and how they code the connection that determines whether Macs can connect. My guess is that State Farm (and Ameritrade, which also only connects via Windows) uses some ActiveX control or what-not to communicate with Quicken and their servers, and since they wonderfully chose the Windows-only way, there ain't much Intuit can do about it.
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