Do you want to buy a house or car, plan trips or a vacation, finance your children’s studies, save for a special occasion, or simply keep track of your budget? BudgetExpress provides an accurate portrait of your financial situation and shows you that your projects really can come true!

Easy, quick and user friendly Create a budget in 20 minutes!

BudgetExpress is recognized for its simplicity and user friendliness, and is the ideal budget software for quickly creating a personal or family budget. No special knowledge of computers or accounting is required.

New functions for day-to-day financial management:

• Easily update your budget by importing data from your online bank account
• Receive automatic notification when you exceed your credit limits
• Manage several accounts in the same budget

• Importing of online bank files (compatible files : OFX, QIF, QFX) -NEW
• Management of several accounts in the same budget-NEW
• Setting of credit limits-NEW
• Be notified when budget items exceed their limits-NEW
• Compound interest investment calculator-NEW
• Loan repayment calculator-NEW
• Printing of calendar and reports-NEW
• Budgets displayed in the form of a calendar
• Production of reports illustrated with graphics
• Budget Creation Wizard creates your profile and suggests budget items
• Comparison of your actual and planned budgets
• Loan and credit management
• Loan and credit simulations
• Creation of an unlimited number of password-protected budgets
• Reference library

Known for its navigating speed and simplicity, Typing Pal is an excellent typing software for beginners and old hands alike. Fifteen short typing lessons will give you all of the fundamentals of typing. Amusing animated scenes will help you through the learning process.

A comprehensive and diversified typing course software!

Improve your technique with the help of over one hundred typing lessons, typing practice texts and oral dictations! Develop new skills with Typing Pal’s exclusively-designed exercises on keyboard shortcuts, special Internet characters, and so forth, and so on.

A personal, adapted approach!

After the typing test, you will be offered a choice of typing programs. Select the one that fits your schedule, the amount of time you have available, and that best suits your needs and specific goals. The typing program will monitor your strengths and weaknesses and offer personalized exercises.

The Spy

The Typing Pal Spy monitors and analyzes your performance when you are using other software (for word processing, e-mail, chatting, etc.), suggests adapted exercises based on your performance, gives you a report on your strengths and weaknesses, and recommends exercises to help you improve!

• Automatically adapts to all types of keyboards (Azerty, Qwerty, Qwertz,) (exclusive feature)
• A typing test to determine your typing speed and accuracy
• Training methods designed by typing specialists
• Numerous oral dictations
• Typing Practice texts in French, English and Spanish (exclusive feature)
• Special Typing lessons on Internet characters (exclusive feature)
• Typing Exercises for the numerical keyboard
• Personalized improvement exercises
• Feature allowing you to add your own texts
• Detailed statistics to keep track of your progress
• The Spy analyzes your performance while you use other software
• Training in keyboard shortcuts (exclusive feature)
• Advice on ergonomics and sound working habits
• Challenging typing games that let you have fun as you learn
• Character display
• Print-outs for realistic practice

The CD-ROM contains both the English and the French versions of the games that take place in the enchanted realm of toys. Each game aims at specific learning objectives and comes in 4 levels of difficulty that follow the learning process of mathematical skills.

Sample of games

• Polygon the robot explores a toy chest full of learning
• opportunities and excitting games that will help develop
• his mathematical skills :
• the train of operations
• the memory game with solids toy soldiers who walk in row when their numbers are properly ordered
• a firefighter truck that you drive along the number line "grid of numbers" jigsaw puzzles
• a digital clock and an analog clock that you set to the same time
• a set of playing cards that must be arranged on
• a grid the boat that sails along regular numerical series
• a frog who leaps over arrays of waterlilies books and magazines to be ordered according to the months of the year
• a collection of flying saucers that can be classifyied according to several features

Contents :

Numbers and operations

Natural numbers (1 to 1 000) : counting, representing, comparison, numeric order, series, operations (plus and minus)

Geometry

Shapes, 2-D figures, 3-D solids, similarities and differences, space, spatial relations, orientation, logical series, introduction to fractions

Measures

Length, distance, time of the day, months of the year, calendar

A comprehensive and user-friendly tool that will help you better control your weight. Once you have created your personal profile and set a goal, planning the physical activities and calorie intake required for you to reach/maintain a healthy weight is a snap!

A wizard will prompt you as you complete your balance sheet. Your energy needs (number of calories) will be determined according to your personal physical characteristics (height, weight, gender, age, medical condition, etc.) and your physical activities (work, sports, pastimes, etc.)

• You will then set a goal in terms of weight. Use the Weight Log table to help you track your weight.
• Use the Calendar to get a quick look at your calorie balance. Get an accurate assessment as often as you like.
• It’s so easy to see if you are on track with your goal—adjust your calorie intake and physical activities accordingly.