I notice this deal was posted back in 2007 to a pretty lukewarm response, but I have found it worthwhile, so someone else out there might! I subscribe to Financial Review's Smart Investor anyway, so a nice bonus to get Quicken for free. Vice-versa if you were looking at buying some personal accounting software.
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Quicken and MYOB are all in the same boat in that they are charging you the full upgrade price if you simply just want an updated tax table. I have aborted these programs for a much simpler and quicker Microsoft Excel and PAYG tax calculator from ATO. I could import all my banking summary into excel. The time I have spent working on Excel is 1/10 the time which I would with these expensive softwares.
I am using a combination of open source applications to achieve what MYOB and Quicken do.
vTiger - CRM and invoicing/quoting
HomeBank - Purchasing, book keeping
LibreOffice Calc - Spreadsheets
I haven't found something to do Payroll yet, had no need to look. Surely there is something out there. Only benefit that MYOB or Quicken have is that they are industry standards and there are many people out there trained how to use/support them.
What about putting the "freebie" after the $79 Smart Investor subscription comment.