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Questions tagged [tracking]

Keeping track of income and expenses. Not to be confused with keeping a budget.

For the difference between tracking and budgeting, see: Is keeping track of your money and having a budget the same thing?

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Is keeping track of your money and having a budget the same thing?

I check my bank account every single day, just out of habit in case there's fraudulent activity. As a result, I always know generally how much I have in my accounts (i.e. if I have $140.25, I'll make a mental note that I have $120 just so I don't…
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How do credit card companies know what type of business I'm paying for?

Credits cards have many different ways of offering you points on types of goods or services you pay for. How do they know if I'm buying, say, food or gas? There are so many different different businesses around; how would a credit card company…
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How easy is it to actually track another person's credit card?

In movies and in fiction, government agents, mom's basement hackers, evil villains, etc. often are able in minutes to tell stuff like "twenty minutes ago she rented a boat in Snow Hill" or "he bought two chicken lettuce sandwiches in Subway at…
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Possible replacement for Quicken

I have been using quicken to track my financial life for about 10 years now and am generally happy with it. A couple of years back Intuit changed the ability to download stock quotes for 2 years maximum. After that 2 years you need to buy the next…
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Does the IRS track every check deposited by me?

Is there a maximum amount limit on exceeding which the tracking starts? Or does each and every check deposited by me gets tracked by IRS for reconciliatory purposes?
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Understanding differences between S&P500 index-tracking ETFs

I'm trying to understand the difference between S&P 500 trackers. Example: SPY IVV VOO They all have different prices (IVV being $1 more, on average than SPY, and VOO being about 50% of the others). Additionally in short observation today,…
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Can shops use card payments to track/profile customers?

Can shops use payment information when you pay with a debit or credit card to track a customer's buying habits? In other words can a shopkeeper link different purchases at different times in his shop together if they were done with the same card or…
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What are these fees attached to mutual fund FSEMX?

Could somebody please explain these fees attached to FSEMX? Annual Report Expense Ratio (net) Prospectus Net Expense Ratio Prospectus Gross Expense Ratio Finance.yahoo.com indicates that they are each .10%. Does that mean that if I add them all…
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How can I compare my portfolio to others' portfolios?

There are a number of free online portfolio trackers that offer various features such as analyzing one's portfolio in terms of risk, making suggestions for individual assets, and so forth. It is common for persons to compare their portfolio to the…
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How to use Mint.com outside US/Canada?

Is it possible to use the mint.com service outside US/Canada? If not (most probably), which similar services also work outside US/Canada? I'm currently using TheBirdy, but it doesn't directly data from credit cards...
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Compare my variable portfolio performance with S&P 500?

The question may appear simple at first but I really cannot come up with a quick and easy way to compare my performance as a trader Vs S&P500. For the sake of simplicity, I am analyzing my portfolio value on a monthly statement basis instead of…
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GnuCash: expense tracking/amounts left under limits

So I've decided I want to try and rein in my spending a bit, and keep my money a little more under control, and while I know there are more simple expense tracking programs, I'm not one to use a hammer when there's an atomic piledriver out there (in…
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How to properly use a personal income/expense sheet for budgeting (or more)?

I am just beginning to set up a personal income/expense sheet on a daily basis. After a month, I have a bunch of raw data in it. Due to lack of experience, I am not sure how to use this record. Do I just glance over and see where I could cut my…
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Tracking my spending, and incoming and outgoing (i.e cashflow)

I currently use AceMoney to track my spending, but, it gets a bit tedious. I like to track everything coming in, and going out. I'm self-employed, I have an "account" for every client, and another "account" for every employee, where I track all my…
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Can you recommend good Excel spreadsheet templates for tracking spending?

I did use Microsoft Money to track my spending couple of years ago, then I switched to paper and pen and then switch to online money sites such as Wesabe, but none of them really worked out. The closest was the pen-paper system, because I could…
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