>>So do you have an answer or did you just wish to complain
Good point, a fair criticism. I just wanted to carp <g>.
In the past I have spent hours on the phone with Intuit
trying in vain to get them to listen to a user. Not
only did I get absolutely nowhere but I did it to the
supercilious, condescending attitudes that "we know better
than you" and "there can't be anything wrong because
we've checked it thoroughly".
This does not engender warm feelings of comradery. It
was some time ago -- whenever it was that Quicken 6 was
first out, and I was trying to get a number of functional
regressions from Quicken 5 addressed. SOB wouldn't even
believe they were there when I told him specifically what
they were (or didn't care -- hard to tell).
In those days the ONLY way to get to tech support/bug
reports was a toll call. No email, no nothing.
Maybe they've now improved, but I just don't go back trying
ulitmately to help them after being sneered at on my dime.
I also detest the way Quicken installs roughly 18 million
DLLs in the windows\system directory. Not even MS Office
does as many. And their registration procedures ...
True, time and Intuit have moved on, and I probably should
just shut up about it. Oohhh, that'd hurt! <g>
I will have to go back and see what I found so useless about
IRR. I quit looking at it quite a while ago because it was
misleading, but I don't remember why at the moment. One
I do remember was that if you transferred stock between
broker accounts (no real way to do that in Quicken) it
tracks the return separately. Seems like another is if
you trade in an out the return gets computed in a way
that makes it not very useful, but I'll have to check
on that one. There is some ambiguity in the IRR
computation as I recall, due to multiple roots of
a polynomial, so there actually is more than one
rate which could produce the same results. Maybe
I didn't like its root <gg>.
I haven't tried Microsoft Money. I did buy it the other
day just to try, since I got it for net $3.98 after rebate.
But, in truth, that's a big sink for time, which I'm not
going to have to allocate to it anytime soon. I don't
know that my expectations are very high. |
