Why did Quicken Abandon Quicken Financial Planner

XSB

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Aug 31, 2001, 10:20:27 PM8/31/01

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Can someone explain or at least suggest why Quicken abandoned Quicken
Financial Planner. I have been using Quicken for at least five plus years.
Great program for people willing to spend the time to track their expenses
carefully. However, when friends asked about getting a handle on their
finances I would suggest that they start with QFP because it addressed the
big picture financial issues. It helped someone understand whether they
were on track in terms of year to year cash flow, college savings, or
retirement planning. I have looked at the online options and the financial
planning within Quicken. None is as good as QFP. Why did Quicken abandon
the program?

Margaret Wilson

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Sep 1, 2001, 8:53:24 AM9/1/01

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It's been absorbed by the Quicken program itself....

Margaret

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MWR

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Sep 1, 2001, 9:34:59 AM9/1/01

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Rant warning:

I cannot speak directly to your question but I believe many changes are
made in the name of finding the lowest common denominator (Translate
that to suck in the last computer-illiterate customer out there, if you
wish).

I am using Quickbooks Pro 99 for my business accounting. Since I need to
have VAT-functions which do not exist there, I also use QB version 8
(U.K.) - Gawd, do I hate to be taken for an idiot by the makers of this
program, especially when they drop the very utilities I need because
they might confuse some imagined numbscull. Intuit sure has a way of
pissing off a customer who has been with them since version 2.1 of DOS
days. Are these people totally immune to all the negative feedback they
are generating?

MWR

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Arnie Goetchius

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Sep 1, 2001, 11:05:31 AM9/1/01

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Because they think they have come up with something better. In fact it
is worse. In the integrated financial planner used in Q2000 and
beyond, you have no where near the reporting capability that you have
in QFP. You can still import Q2001 files in to QFP and use it but I
don't know about Q2002.

For past discussions on QFP, take a look at

http://groups.google.com

and search for "Quicken Financial Planner"

XSB

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Sep 1, 2001, 7:54:18 PM9/1/01

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The long term planning in Quicken is very limited compared to QFP. I have
been following the discussions of QFP and the online planning options. The
only program as robust as QFP seems to be Esplanner.

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Margaret Wilson

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Sep 1, 2001, 11:30:55 PM9/1/01

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I'd be interested in hearing more about ESplanner. I checked out their web
site, but they don't have a trial or even a summary/screen shots of the
application. Although they do have a 10-day money-back guarantee, I'd still
hate to shell out $65 for something I know nothing about....

Regards,

Margaret

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XSB

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Sep 2, 2001, 8:38:33 AM9/2/01

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Esplanner uses a different approach to financial planning. It may be quite
good but one problem is that you have to rely on the integrity of the
program. While QFP was not perfect, I understood what the program was
doing. See http://www.esplanner.com/Approach.htm

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