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There are a growing number of online services dedicated to helping users manage their finances. There are many benefits to using these accounting applications, they can simplify the process as well as help you find ways to save money.  Here are 25+ tools for accounting and budgeting both personal and business finances.

Here you’ll find resources for keeping track of business expenses, finding out if you’re being charged hidden fees, invoicing roommates, and more.

Which services do you use? Tell us about your experiences with them in the comments.

Business Accounting

GoBootstrap.com - Helps you fill out forms, remember to pay estimated taxes, get the most deductions possible, generate graphs to see how your business is doing and more.

LessAccounting.com - Attempts to be a more streamlined, less labor intensive accounting system for small businesses in an attempt to free up more of your time.

Peachtree.com - Peachtree brings their popular accounting software online, giving you features such as check writing, invoicing, sales and all of the other bells and whistles you would expect.

Quickbooks.Intuit.com - The well known Intuit program also has an online version that can allow multiple people to log in and view finances, perfect for businesses with multiple partners in different locations.

TheBudket.com - You can use this system for financial planning, cash flow analysis, collaborative accounting and more.

Personal Accounting

Billster.net - Allows you to keep track of your accounting as well as send reminders to people who owe you money. The service works with over 40 different currencies.

Buxfer.com - Does a bit of everything in that it aggregates your different accounts from banks and credit cards, lets you budget and also lets you do shared accounting with other people.  The service allows login via Open ID, Facebook, Google and more.

ClearCheckbook.com - This personal accounting system leaves you very little room to say you didn’t have time to update by giving you an iPhone interface and SMS updating, as well as via instant messenger services such as AIM, GTalk and more.

ElectricCheckBook.com - Besides the normal personal accounting tools, Electric CheckBook also allows you to invite others to join in for collaborative accounting which makes it perfect for new couples who are just opening their first checking account.

Foonance.com - Do your accounting, but instead of seeing where all of your money is going in a boring graph or chart, you give them tags and can see them represented in a tag cloud.

IndyBudget.com - Offers free accounts that will show you upcoming activity, recurring payments, budgeting and more.  Also has a reasonably priced pro account you can upgrade to at any time that gives you even more features.

Mint.com - A completely free financial management tool that offers nice perks like integration with numerous banks, retrieves new transactions daily and even puts them into categories for you automatically. set budgets that will warn you when you’re close to going over and much more.

Money2Manage.com -Gives you all of the basic accounting tools you will need such as categories, report generation and money tracking, as well as access via the phone.

MyBillQ.com - Allows you to keep your personal accounting organized while also letting you set up shared expenses you may have with roommates, friends or family.

Quicken.Intuit.com - Probably the best known name in personal online accounting software. They do offer an online version that you can access from any Web browser so that you can keep your accounts up to date no matter where you happen to be.

Rudder.com - Delivers your information to you via email so that you don’t even have to visit their site to see how you’re doing.

Zefty.com - An accounting system for parents to help teach their kids about the value of money and how to manage it.

Personal Budgeting

Budget.10try.com -The Plan2spend app allows you to keep track of all your expenditures while giving you a glimpse as to what your future balance will be so that you can avoid overdrafts.

BudgetEdge.com - BudgetEdge doesn’t only help you keep track of your current expenses and assets, but it also helps you predict how much you will have left at the end of the next payment cycle so long as you enter all of your information faithfully.

ExpenseView.com - Enter your expenses to get a better grip on what is eating up the majority of your budget.

Gastus.com - While not a full accounting app like the majority of the others, it does let you track your expenses to see where your money is going and also offers an iPhone interface for updating on the go.

Mvelopes.com - Helps you see exactly where your money is going and tries to find money you are losing in “hidden” fees and expenditures.

Shared Accounting

Billhighway.com - A shared accounting system designed with non-profit groups and Greek organizations in mind.

Billshare.org - Allows you to easily share expenses with others by creating receipts for one another and having them delivered via RSS.

Expensure.com - A unique accounting system that helps roommates pool their expenses and then divide them while keeping track of who owes money to bill collectors or other roommates.

Money.Tra.in - An accounting system specifically for people living together that need to split bills.  Has an old school ASCII feel to its graphics.

Spendji.com - System for keeping track of projects and plans for friends, groups and organizations.

SpicyDigits.com - A group accounting system that allows any member to enter a new expense and then an automatic email is sent to each member informing them of their share.  Allows you to invite new members as needed.

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CBS will host live coverage of the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions online for the first time in the company’s history, it reported today.

According to CBS, “Katie Couric will anchor live Web-exclusive specials on CBSNews.com and CNET.com from the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions each night immediately following primetime coverage on the CBS Television Network, which she is also anchoring.”

Once the Network coverage ends, Couric will then continue coverage on both CBSNews.com and CNET.com for an additional 15-30 minutes “and feature behind-the-scenes taped looks at Couric and her team reporting throughout the day, live interviews with politicians and convention officials and a live roundtable with CBS News political experts and reporters.”

To make the shows a bit more interactive, questions from the online audience will be thrown into the mix and for those who missed it, they can watch it any time after the show airs on CBSNews.com, CNETTV.com and CBS Mobile News.

This is a major step forward for CBS, which has heretofore been suspect of the Web and being more interactive with it.  But it looks like the networks are finally embracing the online world and that can only be good for all of us.

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A few weeks ago we put out a call for writers. Since then, you’ve probably seen some new names popping up on the site with awesome feature articles - Amanda MacArthur, Ben Parr, Aaron Uhrmacher, Rob Diana, and Dorianio “Paisano” Carta, just to name a few. But, we’re still looking for more new and interesting voices in the social media space to add to our team as part-time contributors.

As opposed to news and reviews, feature articles take a more in-depth look at a given subject and can take a variety of formats, including a head-to-head comparison of competitive products, a how-to/tutorial, and lists of similar services (see Sean P. Aune’s author page for hundreds of examples). Our contributors work virtually, will be expected to produce between 1-4 posts per week, and are primarily paid on a per-post basis.

If you’re interested in becoming a contributor, please send several examples of your online work to me at adamo [at] mashable [dot] com. I’ll follow up with additional questions and details.

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