Updating Personal Financial System
As you are aware, I got myself a new laptop last week. Although I anticipated that I needed time to make everything works as I want it to work, Vista is in some ways for lack of a better phrase, ” one step forward, two steps back”. Even though I’m technically inclined, I prefer the way the old OS work. Which brings me to the purpose of this post.
Newer does not necessary means better. So does different. Being an early adopter has its risks. Relate that to your finances. I’ve always believe in keeping things simple. The simpler you manage your money, the easier it is to see what’s going on. Remember, most of us are not financial planner or analyst that have the whole day to manage our money.
Most of us are probably family people with work, family, social and a ton of other commitments to take care off. If your system to managing the money is too complicated, you’d be spending too much time to “maintain” your system, rather than investing that time “managing” the money.
Since I have a new laptop with much more hard disk space, I’ve decided to re-organize my folders to be more efficient. I realize that I needed better financial software than just worksheets. Although the worksheets have served me well, I could not track changes over time. Instead of jumping to try more sophisticated software, I’ll probably get better organized worksheets, since I already have Open Office Calc which is the free alternative to Excel.
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