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- STANDING ORDERS/BUDGET PAYMENTS FORM
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- TITLE
-
- The title of this form will change depending on whether it has been
- opened from the Standing Orders window or the Budget window - the
- title will indicate where the entered data will be directed since both
- these windows can be open at the same time.
-
- FUNCTION
-
- This form allows the creation of Standing Orders, single periodic
- payments and Budget Payments. Entry of the 'from' and 'to' accounts is
- from the normal menu structure, foreign currencies can be used by
- selecting them into the box next to the 'from' account. Amounts are
- entered into the Initial and Normal sum boxes, the Initial sum is used
- for the first transaction and for single payments. Start and finish
- dates are set as required. The period is selected by clicking over the
- appropriate button and, if 'months' or 'days' is chosen, by entering
- the number of months or days into the white box next to the respective
- button. Comments can be added if required and the data entered or
- rejected by using the Enter, Clear or Exit buttons.
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- NOTES
-
- *Start Date
- If the start date entered has already past then an icon "Action
- Now?" will appear giving you the option of actioning the entry
- immediately. If this is selected to YES this entry will be used to
- create all transactions up to the present date when it is Entered. If
- this option is not chosen then the s/o will be actioned at the next
- start up.
-
- *Single payments.
- These can be use to action pre-notified payments automatically and
- only an initial sum and start date need be entered correctly.
-
- *Budget Payments.
- These are actioned in exactly the same manner as for Standing Order
- entries but will be entered onto the Budget analysis file from which
- this form was opened.
-
- *Pay accounts.
- If the 'from' account is a pay account then an additional icon will
- appear next to the 'from' box with a red 'deduct' in it, clicking over
- this will change it to a blue 'Transfer'. This allows different types
- of standing order to be made from Pay type accounts. When listed,
- Transfer types also appear in blue. (Deduct types will deduct the
- amount from the balance of a pay account, Transfer types take the
- money but do not affect the balance which aids analysis-see the
- TRANSACTION help PAY TYPES for further info.)
-
- *Entry.
- When the Enter button is selected the transaction is checked for
- validity and then entered onto file for future use. It will then
- appear in the correct position in the appropriate list.
-
- *Editing & Deleting.
- All entries can be edited and deleted as required by clicking select
- over the entry line in the display window and selecting 'Edit' or
- 'Delete' from the menu that appears. If 'Delete' is selected then you
- will be given one chance to change your mind before final deletion; if
- 'Edit' is chosen the data is merely re-entered into this form for
- editing. Note that the action buttons change to 'Replace' 'Reset' and
- 'Leave'. Replace will overwrite the current entry if it has been
- altered (after confirmation), the replaced entry will appear at it's
- correct position in the list; Reset clears the data from this form but
- leaves the entry itself intact, and Leave exits this form, again
- leaving the entry intact in the display list and on the file.
-
- *Standing Orders Use.
- S/Os are only automatically actioned when the application is started;
- then the date of each s/o is checked to see if it should be actioned
- and/or deleted (if finished). This process is repeated until all
- outstanding s/os have been actioned, more than one transaction may be
- made from a single s/o entry if it has just been created with a start
- date some time in the past, or if you have reset the date in your
- machine to some future date.(This can cause rapid apparent
- bankruptcy!!)
-
- *Budget Use.
- Budget entries are actioned when 'Budget' is run from the Budget
- window, they are actioned in exactly the same manner as S/Os but are
- not updated and changed on file. Standing orders are also actioned in
- the Budget process but are again not changed. All transactions
- generated in the Budget process only appear on the budget account,
- they do not affect other accounts.
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