Financial Software advice

Hi. I'm a graphic design freelancer and I need to purchase some sort of financial software for the mac. I need to create invoices, track charges, and even track my personal charges as well. Can anyone recommend the best software? I know quickbooks is available, but I'm not sure how great this program is. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks.

skottish wrote:That was actually my first thought, but my thread is intentionally a little vague. I'm not the one who needs the budgeting software and she's the Anti-Nerd!!!! I'm curious: did you do it from scratch or did you work off a tutorial of some sort?
I made it up from scratch, it isn't anything fancy though. Here is a quick explanation of what it is:
I have a sheet for each account with 5 columns: "Date of Transaction", "Transaction amount", "Running total", "Transaction Type" and "Comment", so I get something like "16/07/2006, -£20, [running total here], ATM Withdrawl, Tesco cash machine"
I then have a sheet that gives me the current balance for each account, and then adds the current accounts (I have two), adds the savings accounts (I have two also), and subtracts the credit card balances, and gives me a final grand total.
The final sheet is a chart, and what I do is every Monday, I enter the current balance of each account. This way, I can see where my money is going on a weekly basis (weekly is enough for me) and I can see if I'm spending too much
Hope that is of some help, I would show you it but I don't really wanna send my bank balances around

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skottish wrote:That was actually my first thought, but my thread is intentionally a little vague. I'm not the one who needs the budgeting software and she's the Anti-Nerd!!!! I'm curious: did you do it from scratch or did you work off a tutorial of some sort?
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