Press Release

November 14, 2007

Quicken & Quickbooks 2008--New Missing Manuals from O'Reilly Media: The Books That Pick Up Where the Help Resources Leave Off

Sebastopol, CA--If you're like most people, you like having control of your money--knowing where it goes and when, how much interest you're gaining every month, and how much time it's going to take before you finish paying off that nasty loan.

While checkbook registers help and paper-and-pen budgets get the job done, it's much easier to keep everything straight with a reliable computer program like Quicken--that is, if you can figure out how to use it. That's where O'Reilly's newest Missing Manuals step in. Author and financial-software writer Bonnie Biafore has written two books, Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual ($24.99 USD) and Quickbooks 2008: The Missing Manual ($29.99 USD) that will have you up and running with new financial freedom in no time.

Biafore explains, "Quicken and Quickbooks make personal and small business finances a lot easier--most of the time. But, like many other programs, they can have a mind of their own. Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual and Quickbooks 2008: The Missing Manual help people learn about all the timesaving features that these programs have to offer: filling in checks and deposits in nanoseconds, downloading transactions, tracking net worth, and so on."

Quicken 2008: The Missing Manual covers personal finances, including topics such as how to:

• Track checks, savings, credit cards, investments, and loans easily
• Pay bills and make transfers online automatically
• Reconcile any account with your bank quickly and painlessly
• Create budgets to track spending and meet your savings goals