New core and interface. Lots of new features.

Change list

• CSV and QIF import/export improved
• OFX import added
• Import preview
• User guide updated
• Few minor changes

New Version Offers Automated Backup, Enhanced CSV Import/Export and Reporting and New Breakthrough Price

April 1, 2011 – Alzex Software today announces Personal Finances Pro 4.4, the latest version of the personal finance application for Windows PC and USB flash drive. Version 4.4 adds some new features and enhancements to the popular software, while making it more accessible to users.

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ALZEX software has announced that Pro edition of Personal Finances, its popular solution for family and personal finance management, is now available at the reduced price of $29.95. (Home edition is not distributed any more).

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• Export/import from csv files improved
• Automatic backup
• Sum of selected transactions added
• Reports improved
• User guide updated

User guide also updated.

• Accounts grouping
• Loans redesigned
• Lots of minor changes

• Links to external files for any transaction
• User extra icons for categories
• Drag-n-drop transaction between categories in transactions tree
• Accounts multiselect

• Unicode support
• Export to/import from qif
• Summary view
• Customizable date and amount formats
• Income and transfers in splits
• Grouping by splits
• Manual approve for scheduled transactions
• Loans and credits keeping
• Transactions in any currency (differ from account currency)
• Updated budget feature
• Calendar: Grouping transactions by categories, family members and tags
• Calendar: Customizable cell height
• Calendar: Small notes (tasks)

• Batch (split) transaction.
• Improved calendar view.
• Improved budget.
• Few bugs fixed.

• Exchange rate downloading.
• 400+ additional icons for categories.
• Few bugs fixed.

Have you ever tried to save up money, avoiding expensive purchases like designer clothes and costly food but found what came into the pocket, came out? If the answer is “yes”, you should try doing a budget. Doing a budget is not about keeping tabs on the “big”, most expensive purchases, it’s about precisely calculating every cent you spend. It’ll help you to understand that a lot is actually spent in little purchases like a bottle of Coca-Cola, bubble gum, candies, cigarettes and other little pleasures of life that people tend to forget about, thinking they are not serious. However $5 spent daily makes $150 a month and $1825 a year. That’s a pretty good reason to start budgeting. 

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As a person who just started a new career, or got a promotion, handling new opportunities, including a higher salary can be somewhat hard. People start experiencing the symptoms of repetitive shopping strain and overspending syndrome, making purchases faster than sound, going out to restaurants more often than before, spending more on clothes, accessories, etc. After a few months, the cold reality sends a distinct signal – buddy, you spend more than you earn. If you keep on this way, you are going to be broke soon. Budgeting and a good personal finance program, such as Personal Finances can be an effective panacea against the shopping syndrome. It may help you to enjoy the new opportunities coming from a new career path, while avoiding going massively into purchases. 

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• Build-in calculator.
• Account and budget items sorting.

• Advanced budget (accounts, categories, family members and tags).
• Small icons for accounts

• Account reconciliation.
• Categories icons in transactions list.
• Predefined time intervals: current day, week, month, quarter, year.
• Reports: transfers separated.

• Reports: Trends, value labels on/off
• Scheduler: last day of month
• "Current month" button
• Few minor bugs fixed

More and more people today are worried about what’s going on in the financial markets. Keeping a strict family budget is a good way to stay on top of these troubles. Personal Finances Pro will help you to budget easily.

Personal Finances Pro is an elegant and super easy home budget manager. It has been designed with the beginning budgeter in mind who is just taking the first steps into the world of personal finance software and feels embarrassed by bloated features of the top financial software he already tried.

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With the economy in such poor shape, people start budgeting and turn their head to online personal finance programs. However their complexity is often so frustrating that many cannot event understand whether they lived within a budget this month or not. As a result, users come back to the simplest personal finance tool – pencil, paper and brain. The folks behind Personal Finances think it doesn’t have to be that way.

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• 50 new icons for accounts
• 200 icons for categories
• Month total
• Non-cleared transactions
• Account initial balance
• Grouping transactions by name
• couple of other corrections

Do you know how to avoid getting caught in the financial crisis? This question addresses one of the biggest fears most everyone has today. If giants like Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers get shaken to their foundations, how can an average person resist getting caught? The answer is simple: spend less than you earn. The era of blithe consumerism is coming to an end, and we should prepare for lean times. It’s time to keep track of all income and expenses and cut down unnecessary expenditures. These simple things will help you to stand bad times.

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