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 Accounting and Bookkeeping 

• AccountingCoach.com
  Clear and thorough course on accounting basics, with tutorials, drills, puzzles, and more.
• Basic Accounting Lessons
  "Teach and learn basic accounting principles, bookkeeping skills, and methods."
• Bean Counting 101: A Free Accounting Course for Non-Accountants
  Nice introduction to the principles of accounting presented in five 5-minute videos.
• So You Want to Learn Bookkeeping!
  "This free bookkeeping tutorial is geared to business owners, managers, and individuals who have not had any formal bookkeeping training or on the job experience and need or want to learn the basics of bookkeeping."

 Accounting Software

• Outright free; online
  "Outright is a very simple-to-use web service that helps you track income and expenses, pay estimated taxes on time, and see how your business is doing. It's perfect for self employed people."
• GnuCash.org free; multiplatform
  "Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses."
• TAS Books Basic free; Win
  "Perfect for start-up and small businesses. It's simple and straightforward to use and helps you keep track of the cash."

 Personal Finance

see also: Consumers & Shopping 

• 360 Degrees of Financial Literacy
  "A free program of the nation's certified public accountants to help Amricans understand their personal finances through every stage of life."
• Financial Literacy (Personal Finance 101)
  "Financial literacy (education on the management of personal finances) is an essential part of planning and paying for postsecondary education. Everyone needs to understand the options with respect to the vast array of financial products, services, and providers to make sound financial decisions."
• Motley Fool - Personal Finance
  Articles and information on how to "make more, save more, spend smarter, and keep more of what you earn." Topics include: Saving & Spending, Credit & Debt, Home & Real Estate, Death & Taxes, IRAs, and Mint Personal Finance.
• MSN Money - Personal Finance
  News and articles about personal finance. Topics include: Banking, Family/College, Insurance, Retirement, Savings/Debt, and Tax.
• MyMoney.gov
  "This website is brought to you by 22 Federal entities that work on improving financial literacy and education. It is a central place for unbiased, reliable information and materials on financial topics of interest to you."
• Personal Finance information from Consumer Reports
  Includes information on shopping strategies, banking and credit, family finance, home finance, retirement, personal investing, consumer protection, and taxes via articles, news, blogs, guides, and videos.
• Saving for Retirement in Plain English (video)
  "This video is designed to teach the benefits of using a retirement account for financing a comfortable retirement." From the Common Craft show.
• Smart About Money
  "We're the National Endowment for Financial Education, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping you make sound financial decisions throughout life’s ups and downs. You'll find practical articles, worksheets, tips and valuable resources from across the Web to help you understand and manage your money."
• Yahoo! Finance: Personal Finance
  Articles, tools, and how-to guides. Topics include: Banking & Budgeting, Career & Work, College & Education, Family & Home, Insurance, Loans, Real Estate, Retirement, and Taxes.
• YouAreHere
  "In our virtual mall, you can play games, design ads, chat with customers and store owners, and much more. You’ll learn key consumer concepts, such as how advertising affects you, how you benefit when businesses compete, how (and why) to protect your information, and how to spot scams."

 Personal Finance Software

• AceMoney $; Win
  "AceMoney helps to organize and manage personal finances quickly and easily. It supports all the features required for home or even small-business accounting needs."
• BudgetSketch free; online
  "BudgetSketch maps out where your money will go as it comes in, instead of simply showing you where it’s been spent."
• ClearCheckbook free, $ versions; online
  "ClearCheckbook.com is an extremely easy way to balance your checkbook online, track your spending, set a budget, manage your money and more."
• GNU Cash free; multiplatform
  Popular program "designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports."
• Grisbi free; Linux, Win
  "Our aim is to provide you with the most simple and intuitive software for basic use, and still very powerful if you spend a little time on the setup. Grisbi can manage multiple accounts, currencies and users. It manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other informations..."
• Home Bank free; multiplatform
  "Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs."
• jGnash free; multiplatform
  "Personal finance manager with many of the same features as commercially-available software. It was created in order to make tracking your personal finances easy, but also provides the functionality required by advanced users."
• Mint free; online
  Popular program which "brings all your financial accounts together online, automatically categorizes your transactions, lets you set budgets & helps you achieve your savings goals."
• MoneyDance $; multiplatform
  "Our simple interface puts your finances at your fingertips without unnecessary accounting jargon."
• Quicken $; Mac, Win
  Offers a variety of well-known and popular financal software for businesses and individuals.