Microfin Technical Support Website

Microfin Technical Support Website

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Welcome to the Microfin technical support website. The purpose of this website is to provide support services to users of the Microfin projection model.

We've provided a number of resources here to help you apply the business planning tools, resolve problems with the software, and suggest improvements to our products and service.

Microfin Training Courses

Upcoming Courses include:

Cape Town, S.Africa 22-26 September 2008 click for details

Washington DC 20-24 October 2008 click for details

Click here for a full schedule of courses in 2008.

Microfin 4 Help File (English)

If you don't yet have the Microfin 4 help file (in english) you can dowload it. You will also need to download the latest version of Microfin (4.06) in order to fully run the help file. Both Microfin and the help file can be downloaded from here. (If you need to transfer data from a previous version of Microfin 4.0, you can do so using the EXPORT sheet.)

You can download Microfin for free!

Microfin 4.0: Click here to download (NOTE: latest version is 4.06, is now compatible with Excel 2007).

If you still use Microfin 3.5, click here to download Microfin 3.58

Compartamos IPO Data

I've been closely engaged with the Compartamos IPO that took place a year ago. Some information is collected on this page that can provide you with more details.

Microfin User's Manual

The revised manual, "Using Microfin 4" is available in English. Click here to download the PDF file. (Warning: it is 8M, so may be difficult to download if you have a poor internet connection.)

Interested in Microfin 4?

Click here to see a brief overview of how to transition from Microfin 3.5 to Microfin 4.

If that link above doesn't work, click here to download a 6M EXE file with a movie about Microfin 4.

Self-Study Tutorials

We have 58 specialized video tutorials that explain nearly every part of Microfin! Thanks to financial support from The Ford Foundation, these tutorials are available for free from our website. The tutorials are available in both English and Spanish.

Click here to download our new Microfin self-study tutorials

An internet audio interview about Microfin

Chuck Waterfield was interviewed about microfinance and Microfin software recently for Science and Society. You can listen to the 20-minute audio interview by visiting the following website:

http://www.scienceandsociety.net/podcasts/archives/2006/11/chuck_waterfiel.html

What is Microfin?

Click here to download an MSWord document that briefly describes Microfin.

Click here to view a video on 'Getting Started with Microfin'

Links to most popular information

Microfin 3.5 Click here to download the latest version of Microfin 3.5. (Note: the latest version is 3.58. Click here for a list of changes by version.)	Microfin 4.0 Click here to download the latest version of Microfin 4.0.
What is Microfin? Click here if you've heard about Microfin and wish to know more about what it does and how to use it.	Other downloads Click here if you want to download other microfin-related files. (Be sure to check this page out, as there are some valuable files available!)
Training Courses Click here to find out about upcoming Training Courses.	Getting Help Click here if you use Microfin and need help.
Microfin Listserve Click here to sign up for our discussion group, where you can keep uptodate	Excel 97 Recalculation Error Click here if Microfin indicates that your version of Excel 97 is not patched for the recalculation error present in early versions of Excel 97.

How to use this website

	On each page you can use the topic list in the left-hand column to go to an area of interest
	On other pages you will be able to use the "navigation" bar underneath the title bar to go sequentially through the materials... just click on the Next button

If you have suggestions on ways to improve this website, please visit our suggestions page.

This website is managed by Chuck Waterfield. If you have any questions or comments about the website, please email waterfield@microfin.com