Computers help your budget

Using computers to manage your budget can make a difference. Information can be accessed immediately from home or work and it's always available on the desjardins.com AccèsD site.

For example, to see if your cheques have been cashed, open your current and previous statements of transactions. This allows you to follow your budget closely so when you have several payments to make at once, you can see if your account is at -$5 when it should be at +$400. Problems can be solved very quickly.

With personal finance software such as Microsoft Money or Quicken, you don't have to enter your expenses manually; the software gets the information automatically and imports it from your Desjardins.com user file. One of these programs offers a range of personal budgeting and financial planning tools.