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For those of you looking to better organize and manage your finances, consider using a helpful online tool called Buxfer. (The site’s tagline is “Track your money. Effortlessly.)

Buxfer (www.buxfer.com) is a simple, easy-to-use, friendly website that helps people keep their finances in order; the site can create reports showing personal and shared expenses, keep track of where money is being spent, and can even keep tabs on who owes you money.

Signing up is quick and easy, requiring nothing more than an e-mail address and password. Once you login to your account, you’re taken to a colorful, easy-to-skim overview panel displaying a pie chart of your expenses, graphs detailing who owes you money and who you owe money to, a grand total of how much you’ve spent in the last 30 days, and access to additional information via navigation links on the left.

Buxfer even lets you report your expenses back to your account in real time via your cell phone. And you guessed it — it’s all free. Undecided? Go take the Quick Tour by clicking the nice big orange button on the site’s homepage to determine if Buxfer would be a useful management tool for you.