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BUDDY - Financial Management System for PTAs, Copyright (c) 1987-1993 by
Gordon C. Everstine, 15803 Lautrec Court, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Telephone: (301) 977-0936
This program is designed to handle the financial accounts of PTAs and other
small organizations. It is a menu-driven program which keeps track of all
transactions (income or expense) and can generate a variety of reports,
including a summary report for a specified period, year-to-date committee
reports, and transaction histories. The program can handle up to 15
organizations, each of which can have 60 budget categories and 1,200 financial
transactions per year. Because of some report format limitations, BUDDY is
limited to organizations with a budget of less than $1,000,000. The program
was written for IBM-compatible personal computers.
BUDDY assumes that the organization has one checking account (which may be
interest-bearing) and perhaps one or more savings (or money market) accounts.
All transactions with the rest of the world are handled through the checking
account. Except for interest earned and bank fees charged, the only
transactions allowed for the savings account(s) are transfers to or from the
checking account. Transfers to savings may be by check. Interest earned may
be credited either to savings or to checking. There is no separate accounting
for transactions associated with multiple savings accounts; all such
transactions are lumped together under the designation "savings." Similarly,
when the savings account balance is computed, all such accounts are lumped
together.
The organization's budget is divided into a number of categories, each of which
may have an amount budgeted for income and expenses. When the budget is
entered (generally at the beginning of each fiscal year), the user defines a
unique two-character abbreviation for each category for subsequent use when
entering transactions and requesting committee reports. Each category may also
be assigned a committee chairman. If the total number of budget categories is
less than about 30, the summary report fits nicely on one page when printed.
The budget items may be entered in any order, since they can be sorted at the
user's option. The budget may also be easily changed as the fiscal year
progresses. In order for the program to distinguish between savings interest
and checking interest, the two-character abbreviation "IN" must be used for the
"Interest" budget category; otherwise, all such interest will be automatically
credited to the checking account rather than to the user's choice.
Except for transfers between checking and savings, every transaction (income or
expense) is assigned to one of the budget categories previously defined. A
special case occurs with advances and petty cash funds. These can be treated
as expenses when paid. If repaid to the treasury, they can then be entered as
a negative expense so as to offset all or part of the previous entry. The
portion of any repayment in excess of the original advance should be entered as
income received. Another special case occurs with refunds made by the treasury
to people who had previously purchased merchandise from the organization
(during a fund-raiser, for example). These transactions can be treated either
as an expense or as negative income so as to reduce the income received
previously. A single check can be split between two (or more) budget
categories simply by entering two (or more) separate expense transactions which
reference the same check. (There is no requirement that the check number
associated with a given transaction be unique.) Transactions can be entered in
any order, since BUDDY sorts them by date and check number.
Initially, BUDDY involves two files, the executable file BUDDY.EXE and this
document file BUDDY.DOC. For each organization and fiscal year, the program
creates a database file of the form BUDDY.F01, BUDDY.F02, etc., containing
budgetary information and transaction data. One such file, BUDDY.F09, is
available for demonstration purposes. To facilitate the addition of
explanatory notes to financial reports, the last report generated is also saved
in the file BUDDY.PRT.