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Pointless tax prep

Tax Assistant for Excel is a set of Excel worksheets that assist users in completing their income taxes using forms 1040 or 1040A. We're not sure why a user would want to use Excel for taxes when there are so many programs and Web sites that are better-suited to the job, and functional problems in Tax Assistant for Excel make it even less attractive.

The workbook presents users with Excel versions of IRS forms and workbooks with an introductory page that's supposed to provide instructions. Unfortunately, we kept receiving error messages about macros (although we had enabled macros … Read more

Expense manager

Business Expense Organizer Deluxe provides a basic business tracking software package for all expenses and write-offs. The program's easy-to-use database made tracking expenses impressively simple.

The program's stark interface features a lot of blank space and tiny command icons and mandated a tour of the Help file's brief tutorial. Luckily, a few minutes of study unlocked this program and made all the controls feel pretty natural. Business Expense Organizer Deluxe is essentially a database for marking and categorizing various expenses. The program provided intuitive fields for naming expenses, categorizing them, applying overall cost, and determining what percentage … Read more