Manage Your Checkbook with AceMoney Lite

Posted by Andy Atkinson on 9/20/2005

AceMoney Lite is Windows freeware that lets you easily categorize your expenses (e.g. Clothing, Food, Entertainment, etc.) and then view charts and graphs that represent those categories. I have found it to be an easy way to manage my checkbook.

The download size is small, there are no advertisements or spyware, it is totally free, and best of all, the application makes it easy to import the latest information directly from your bank account. If you have an account with a larger bank like TCF or Wells Fargo, they will support .qif file type downloads, which you can easily import into AceMoney, Quicken, and other financial applications. I have created some basic instructions to import this data from a TCF account.

  1. Log-in and chose "Download to" from the drop-down menu on the right side above your account name
  2. Choose "QIF Download (.qif)" and save to the desktop
  3. Open AceMoney Lite, choose "File > Import", choose "QIF Files (*.qif)" from the drop-down menu named "Files of Type", and click "Open."

AceMoney Lite

AceMoney Lite is free software that lets you manage your checkbook by maintaining categories of your expenses, and allows you to graph your expenses.

That’s it, your complete account transaction history is imported! The only information you have to enter manually is the transaction category. You can get very detailed with this by creating many different categories, or keep things simple and create just a few basic categories like "Food," "Entertainment" "Work," etc. Once you have done the bulk of the manual work by categorizing all of your previous transactions, it will be relatively easy to enter your transaction information as it comes in so that you can keep your charts and graphs accurate. Remember that the more detailed you get with your transactions categories, the more accurate the statistics about how you earn and spend money will be. Check this solution out, it helps with budgeting, bill reminders, lists of payees, reports, and more.

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About the author(s)

Andy Atkinson works as a software developer in the Minneapolis area, with experience in desktop and web application development, and interest in iPhone and Android platforms. He has also been a hardware geek since he built his first computer. He runs Windows, OS X, and Linux, and is always working on getting more comfortable on the command line.

He founded Pain in the Tech in 2005 as a way to share tips and tutorials with friends and family, and evangelize great products and services to its growing readership. Site content has always been varied, so adding multiple contributors was a natural fit. By 2008, Pain in the Tech had 7 contributors. Site ownership was transitioned to Matt Thommes in 2008.

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