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InCharge Change History
Following is the change history of InCharge! since version 1.02.00.
If you have just installed a new version, please review the changes
since your previous version. You will discover new functions and changes
to existing functions which should be noted.
1.02.48 Enhancements:
1. The Order Entry dialog has been enhanced to allow
posting a transaction to multiple customer accounts.
This is a very usefull function when you need to post
the same charge to multiple accounts such as orgization
dues.
2. A Clone key has been added to the batch transaction
selection dialog for creating/adding/editing/deleting
batch transactions. This enables you to create a new
batch transaction by copying an existing one.
3. A Rename key has been added to the batch transaction
selection dialog for creating/adding/editing/deleting
batch transactions. This enables you to rename an existing
batch transaction.
4. A Clone key has been added to the batch spread
selection dialog for creating/adding/editing/deleting
batch spreads. This enables you to create a new
batch spread by copying an existing one.
5. A Rename key has been added to the batch spread
selection dialog for creating/adding/editing/deleting
batch spreads. This enables you to rename an existing
batch spreads.
6. The check printing function has been modified to give
greater flexibility in printing multi check sheets under
special situations such as printing from an alternate
tray.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
1/21/99 have been corrected.
1.02.47 Enhancements:
1. The function Import CIS Credit Card Transactions has
been replaced by a general purpose function, Import
QIF File. The new function does what the old one did
but also gives the option of ignoring transactions
which are duplicates of ones already posted to the
account. Also, if the imported transaction payee
matches the bill name for an existing bill code, the
bill will be updated and the bill's default tax and
budget codes will be used.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
11/10/98 have been corrected.
1.02.46 Enhancements:
1. New/Edit/Delete Property Database dialog has been
enhanced to make it more intuitive.
2. When processing a stock split of stocks held in
certificate form, you can now specify the maximum
number of shares to be assigned to each new
certificate created.
3. You can now specify setup/reset strings for the
payee and numeric amount fields when printing
checks. This enables you to select specific
fonts for those fields.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
10/10/98 have been corrected.
1.02.45 Enhancements:
1. When specifying a scheduling period for bills, batch
transactions, and notes you now have the option to
schedule them for the last day of the month.
2. A property value history report has been added.
3. A securities value history report has been added.
4. An insurance value history report has been added.
5. When processing a scheduled batch transaction, you
can specify that the default posting date is to
be the actual date the batch transaction was processed
or the scheduled date.
6. For bills paid via a batch transaction, you can now
specify that the posting date of the transaction
paying the bill is to be the default processing date
of the batch transaction or the due date for the bill.
7. Face value as well as cash value is now tracked in the
insurance value history file.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
9/14/98 have been corrected.
1.02.44 Enhancements:
1. A Net Worth/Balance Sheet report may now be generated
for any date on or before "today". The accuracy of
report for past dates is dependent on how far back
the value history files for property, securities,
insurance, and business inventory go.
2. You now have the option when displaying a Net
Worth/Balance Sheet report of whether or not the
Net Worth History file is to be updated with the
values for total assets, total liabilities, and
net worth/equity.
3. Certain restrictions on those who select the double
entry accounting option have been lifted. You may
now post/edit transactions to past/future fiscal
years. You may change InCharge's "Today's date".
You can "close" a past fiscal year multiple times
if you post transactions, edit transactions,
process stock quote updates, etc to the past year.
You can display an updated Balance Sheet for a past
fiscal year when changes have been made to the
books for the year.
4. A new funtion, Close/Balance Books for Year has
been added to the Files menu. While this function
is primarily for those selecting the double entry
accounting option, it can be of use to those who
do not select the option. The function performs
two basic operations: 1) It takes each day in the
year and balances the books for that day propagating
the corrections forward. 2) It replaces (optionally)
the net worth history file entries for the year with
a single entry for the last day of each month. The
function can be run on the current fiscal year in
which case the processing is the same but only is
done through "today". Those not selecting the double
entry option can use the function to "clean up" the
net worth history file entries for a year with the
12 month end entries. This function is also
dependent on the value history files for property,
securities, insurance, and business inventory.
5. A Trial Balance report may now be generated
for any date on or before "today". The accuracy of
report for past dates is dependent on how far back
the value history files for property, securities,
insurance, and business inventory go.
6. For those selecting the double entry accounting
option, a number of changes have been made in the
automatic generation of equity account transactions
for property which keep the books correctly updated
base on the effective date of the transaction.
7. For those selecting the double entry accounting
option, a number of changes have been made in the
automatic generation of equity account transactions
for securities which keep the books correctly updated
base on the effective date of the transaction. The same
enhancements keep the Net Worth report accurate for
those not selecting the action but posting stock quote
updates, stock splits, reinvestments, etc. with an
effective date before today.
8. For those selecting the double entry accounting
option, a number of changes have been made in the
automatic generation of equity account transactions
for business inventory which keep the books correctly
updated base on the effective date of the transaction.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
8/14/98 have been corrected.
1.02.43 Enhancements:
1. Both a processing date and a posting date can now be
specified for a scheduled Batch Transaction. The
processing date is the date the batch transaction is
to be run and the posting date is the date with which
its transactions are to be posted.
2. If double entry accounting is enabled, interest and
service charge transactions posted by the Select
Statement Date dialog will also generate an off setting
equity account transaction keeping the books in
balance.
3. The maximum telephone number length for dialing CheckFree
has been increased from 30 to 100 characters. This is
for those who need to dial into CheckFree while traveling.
4. InCharge now tracks the value of all property items over
time and provides a funtion on the Property menu to edit
the history.
5. InCharge now tracks the value of all securities over time
and provides a funtion on the Sroperties menu to edit the
history.
6. InCharge now tracks the value of all insurance policies
over time and provides a funtion on the Insurance menu to
edit the history.
7. InCharge now tracks the value of all business inventory
items over time and provides a funtion on the Inventory
menu to edit the history.
Note: The above enhancements for tracking of item value
history will be used in the new Balance Sheet report
as of a specified date which is scheduled for release
in a future version of InCharge.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
8/1/98 have been corrected.
1.02.42 Enhancements:
1. "Negative reinvestments" are now allowed with securities.
2. An invoice can now be marked paid on the Select Invoice
dialog without having to invoke the Edit Invoice dialog.
3. The invoice list on the Select Invoice dialog can now
be searched for a customer based on account code,
name, account number, and/or address.
4. The Open Books dialog and the New/Delete Books dialogs
have been combined into a single dialog which is more
intuitive when creating a new set of books.
5. The New/Edit/Delete Account dialog has be redesigned
to be more intuitive when creating a new account.
6. The New/Edit/Delete Batch Transaction dialog has been
redesigned to be more intuitive when creating a new
batch transaction.
7. The New/Edit/Delete Batch Spread dialog has been
redesigned to be more intuitive when creating a new
batch spread.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
7/20/98 have been corrected.
1.02.41 Enhancements:
1. The Net Worth/Balance sheet report has been modified
for those using the double entry accounting option. The
report will now always put the books in balance if
they are not by generating and posting a correction
transaction to the EQUITY_X account. The Trial Balance
report still shows the whether the books are in balance
or not and if not, the amount of the equity transaction
required to put them in balance.
2. The Property Query function now has an option to
create the report in CSV (comma delemited) format
for exporting a property database. The exported
file can be imported into a spread sheet program or
text editor.
3. A new import function has been added to the Property
menu for importing a property database in the CSV format
which is compatible with the Property Query CSV format.
When importing, if a property record already exist for
an item, it is updated with the information in the import
record. If it does not exist, a new database record is
created with the information.
4. The Securities Query function now has an option to
create the report in CSV (comma delemited) format
for exporting the securities database. The exported
file can be imported into a spread sheet program or
text editor.
5. A new import function has been added to the Securities
Import menu for importing a securities database in the CSV
format which is compatible with the Securities Query CSV
format. When importing, if a securities record already exist
for an item, it is updated with the information in the import
record. If it does not exist, a new database record is
created with the information.
6. The Securities Query report option for sorting on annual
and total ROI has been redesigned to provide a consistent
result.
7. A number of changes have been made to the on-line user's
guide as the result of a through review while porting
it to the Win95/98/NT version of InCharge.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
6/19/98 have been corrected.
1.02.40 Enhancements:
1. A file manager has been added to the Files menu. This
function provides for the editing, copying, moving,
deleting, and renaming of one or more files. It is
primarily intended for use in Spitfire Software
assited problem resolution but can be used for
general file maintenance.
2. Support for the import of stock quotes from the Yahoo
web sit has been added.
3. Support for the import of stock quotes from CIS using
GCP 3.0 has been added.
4. Usability enhancements have been made to the Edit
Payee List function.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
5/6/98 have been corrected.
1.02.39 Enhancements:
1. Numeric values are now optionally displayed with thousands
separators. The Date/Time/Numeric Formats dialog is used
to define the separator and whether or not it is to be
displayed. Numeric values can always be entered with an
optional thousands separator.
2. A Restore function has been added which restores previously
backed up sets of books. This funtion has options to restore
the currently open set of books, another set of books, or
create a new set of books from the backup.
3. Uninstall function added to the Install program.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
4/6/98 have been corrected.
1.02.37 Enhancements:
1. A new type of security has been added. Stock options
can now be managed with InCharge. Both buy and sell
stock options are supported. ROI calculations are
provided and they are factored into the Net Worth
report.
2. Multiple invoice print styles can now be created and the
appropriate one selected when printing an invoice.
3. Predefind invoice print styles are provided for Product,
Professional, and Service business.
4. Currency exchange rates are now are 9 decimal places
instead of 7.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
3/1/98 have been corrected.
1.02.36 Enhancements:
1. Transaction address and bill account number are now
stored with each transaction. This enables the address
and account number to be printed on checks which are
printed a second time. They may also be edited before
reprinting the check.
2. When selling securities, you can now mark a sale as a
IRA distribution. When marked as such, the sale is not
reported as capital gains on the tax report but rather
must be processed as ordinary income.
3. A third option on calculating GST/VAT taxes has been added.
The options are now GST/VAT on item only, GST/VAT on item
plus its sales tax, or sales tax on item plus its GST/VAT.
4. Additional capabilities on recovery of corrupted data files
have been added.
5. Additional capabilities in adding a property item to the
property inventory when it purchased in a secondary currency
have been added.
6. When viewing the register report, you can now directly change
the account and/or dates of transactions displayed on the
report.
7. When printing a report you can now add a comment to the printed
version of the report.
8. The quantity field on an invoice can now be printed in a fixed
two decimal point format as well as the current floating
decimal point format.
9. When processing a transaction referencing a bill code in a
batch transaction, the due date is now used as the transaction
date. The default transaction date for following transactions
in that batch transaction is not changed.
10. When displaying an Outstanding (non reconciled) Transaction
report, you can now specify a date for which only transactions
posted on or before that date are displayed if they have not
been reconciled on an account statement on or before that date.
11. When producing a business tax report you can now select invoices
either on the date they were paid or on the date the custormer
was invoiced.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
1/8/98 have been corrected.
1.02.35 Enhancements:
1. A trasaction posted to an account in a secondary currency
can now have its exchange rate edited directly with the
Edit Transacion function.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
11/28/97 have been corrected.
1.02.34 Enhancements:
1. The note list can now be printed and used as a simple to do
list.
2. The spread records for a printed check can now be printed
on the check registers for business size checks. This
allows the user to itemize a payment.
3. The country identifier has been increased from 10 to
30 characters.
4. The primary currency can now be change to a secondary
currency and a secondary currency made the primary
currency. When this is done all currency references in
the system are automatically updated to reflect the
change. Accounts, assets, and liabilities remain in the
currency in which they were originally defined.
5. Any account, asset, or liability can now have its currency
changed and all of its currency values will be updated
to reflect the new currency at the current exchange rates.
6. The Net Worth report can now be displayed in any of the
secondary currencies as well as the primary currency.
7. The Exchange Rate report now only displays the last
currency exchange rates recorded on any give day. When
the report is generated, the earlier records for any
given day are automatically removed from the file.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
11/10/97 have been corrected.
1.02.33 Enhancements:
1. Budget group codes have been redesigned to allow a given
budget code to be assigned to more than one group code.
Also, group codes are now 1 to 10 characters in lenght.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
10/10/97 have been corrected.
1.02.32 Enhancements:
1. A major internal changes made to significantly
improve performance on systems with a large number
of accounts.
2. Payment total added to CheckFree Action History
report.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
9/10/97 have been corrected.
1.02.31 Enhancements:
1. A spin button has been added to the field for entering
a statement's date on Reconcil's Statement Date
dialog.
2. An Add Amount Left button has been added to the
Transaction Spread dialog.
3. An option has been added to the System Configuration
dialog to limit checking of bill to payables only
when starting a new session.
4. When entering a value in the amount field for the
Enter Transactions, Edit Transactions, and Transaction
Spread dialogs, you can now enter it as a series
of arithmetic operations, e.g. 1+2+3-4+10. InCharge
will evauate the expression when you press the equal
key or when the field loses focus substituting the
the result for the expression in the field.
5. When generating a Cash Flow Analysis or Tax report
you can now specify that when the report is printed
each category is to printed on a separate sheet.
6. You can now specify default budget categories on the
Edit Account dialog to be used when posting an
interest or service charge transaction from the
Select Statement Date dialog.
7. The account current balance is now displayed and
updated on the main dialog after the name of the
open account.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
8/1/97 have been corrected.
1.02.30 Enhancements:
1. IMPORTANT: Backup now supports PKZIP version 2.50 for
OS/2 as one of the backup programs. PKZIP version
1.0 for OS/2 is no longer supported because its
command line parameters are different than the new
version 2.50.
2. The length of time the InCharge logo is displayed is
based on the value set in the Desk Top settings. This
may or may not effect the time it takes to start
InCharge based on the amount of initialization
required.
3. The bank statement's interest and service charge can now
be entered on the Select Statement Date dialog before
reconciling an account. If entered and not previously
posted to the account, they will be posted with the
statement's date. This posting eliminates the need to
use the Add function on the Mark Transactions dialog
to post the statement's interest and service charge.
4. A exit verification message is now optionally available
when exiting InCharge.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
6/20/97 have been corrected.
1.02.29 Enhancements:
1. The last status of the Owned check box on the Query
Securities dialog is now the initial default value
for a new query.
2. Notes are now listed sorted on schedule date
(notes not scheduled are listed first) in the Note
Selection dialog.
3. The beginning statement balance field on the Select
Statement Date dialog for reconciling accounts is
now set to a default value base on the statement date.
4. In addition to setting the beginning and ending
balances for reconciling an account, you can now
set the total additions and subtractions. When you
do this you enable the new intelligent problem
resolution feature for reconciling. In this mode you can
click on the Problem button on the Mark Transactions
dialog to have InCharge analyze your statement and
point out the possible causes for the statement not
balancing and how to isolate and correct the problem.
5. You can now create groups of bills identified with a
group code. A bill group code is 1 to 10 characters
long. You may define as many bill group codes as
desired and assign any number of bills to the code.
A bill may be assigned to more than one bill group
code. Bills may be selected by group codes for payment
and in the Bill Query/Report Writer function.
6. When deleting an invoice, you may now optionally delete
all customer transactions posted to that invoice.
7. You can now create a new directory from the backup dialog.
8. CheckFree transactions which have not yet been transmitted
to CheckFree can now be edited for date, payee, and amount
as well as budget categories, tax categories, transfer
accounts, and memo.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
6/1/97 have been corrected.
1.02.28 Enhancements:
1. Up and down arrows have been added to the transaction
spread dialog so that you can change the order of the
spread records of cosmetic reasons.
2. Displaying the memo field on the Register report is
now optional and can be selected/deselected with the
Register/Dates function on the Accounts menu.
3. When changing the code for a budget category, you can
now specify that it is to be changed for all budget
years or just the current budget year.
4. Usability enhancements have been added when a charge
transaction is edited which is in the check print queue.
5. The InCharge Clock Alarm function has been enhanced
so that you can now optionally specify a timeout period
such that if you have not canceled the alarm message
within a specified period, the message is automatically
canceled.
6. When pausing to edit a transaction in a batch transaction
or a spread record in a batch spread, you now have the
option to skip the transaction/record or to quite the
batch transaction/batch spread as well to post the
transaction/record.
7. After editing a transaction displayed in one of the
various transaction reports, you now have the option
of not regenerating the report if there are other
changes to be made and you do not want to wait for
an updated report.
8. The order that line items are printed on an invoice can
now be changed before printing.
9. Selected reports which can take a long time to generate
now provide update messages on their progress.
10. Total Payment and Total Payment Limit have been added
to bill payables/receivables. Previously there was only
Total Payment (YTD). The new values are for use where
there is an upper limit on the payments made to a vendor
or by a customer that must be tracked. The bills
query report shows the total payment and limit status.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
5/1/97 have been corrected.
1.02.27 Enhancements:
1. When printing reports, the reports are now automatically
centered on the page.
2. When saving a report to a file which already exists,
InCharge now asks you if you want to overwrite the file
or append the report to the existing file.
3. When you post a transaction to an invoice, InCharge now
automatically sets the mark (reconcile) date of the
transaction to the date of the invoice.
4. When you do a register report on credit account-receivable,
the mark date is no longer shown, rather the invoice number
to which the transaction was posted is shown.
5. Register reports now display the full mark (reconcile) date
rather than just the month and year.
6. Tax reports now have the option of excluding those
securities which have been marked Tax Free Account from
the report. This is useful for ignoring IRA, 401(K), etc.
type accounts that should not be reported on the tax
report.
7. Tax reports now have the option of grouping and reporting
security dividends/interest by broker or by security for
those held in a brokerage account.
8. When processing dividends/interest and reinvestments for
for securities marked as Tax Free Accounts, the default
type is now Non Taxable instead of Ordinary dividends or
Interest.
9. When requesting a Cash Flow Analysis report, the selection
of budget categories via group codes has been made more
user friendly.
10. Cash Flow Analysis report high and low dates can now be
set by specifying the fiscal or budget year.
11. Property codes have been increased from 30 characters to
100 characters in length.
12. The property query report can now be sorted on code,
cross reference, description, or insurance policy.
13. Additional sort options for the bill query have been
added. They are name, account number-numeric, and account
number-alphanumeric.
14. Budget actuals comparisons can now be done for 2, 3 or
4 years. The reports are By Category Through Month, By
Category For A Month, and By Month. Comparisons are
presented in both tabular and graphical form.
15. A master "Create/Edit/Delete Objects" button has been
added to the Main dialog. This button enables you to
quickly access the basic edit functions for all of the objects
in a set of books (e.g., accounts, budget categories, etc.).
16. A new function has been added to the InCharge folder. This
function enables you create a new set of books directly from
folder without having to open an existing set of books and
creating the new books from the existing set of books. You
can also use the function to recreate an icon for an existing
set of books that has been lost.
17. Transaction Query reports can now be sorted on either the
transaction's account or date.
18. When posting an interest transaction to a credit-liability
or credit-asset account which has an associated bill-payable
or bill-receivable, the interest is automatically added
to the bill's interest paid field.
19. Transaction Query reports total debits and credits are now
displayed by account currency groups rather than as a single
total.
20. When printing a partial sheet of checks where the default
is landscape mode for partial sheets, you are now given
the option at print time to print the sheet in portrait
mode. This is for those printers that print best in portrait
mode if there are 2 checks on a partial sheet but must print
1 check partial sheets in landscape mode.
21. After processing a batch spread that was selected as the
budget code on the Enter Transactions dialog, InCharge now
displays the entire spread in the Spread dialog so that
any of the spread records can be edited/deleted or new
records added. You must click on Ok to save the spread.
22. Batch spreads can now be processed during entering a
manual spread of a transaction. To do this, select the
batch spread in the Spread dialog's budget categories
list box and click on Add. If the amount field on the
Spread dialog blank, the transaction's amount is spread,
otherwise the amount in the amount field is used.
23. Batch spreads can now call other batch spreads as part of
their processing. When creating a record for a batch spread
select the batch spread to be called from the budget
category list and enter the amount to be spread or the
calculation for the amount. Then click on Add to add that
record to the batch spread records.
24. When generating a Transaction Query or Cash Flow Analysis
report, you can now select budget categories from all
budget years. You not limited to just those categories
defined for the current fiscal year.
25. Property items can now have an account transaction assigned
to them to track detailed purchase information.
26. Transaction Query will now check both payee and memo fields
for a match on payee if the "Also test memo" check box is
checked.
27. When reporting transactions on the tax report, if the memo
filed is not blank, then the memo field is printed right
below the payee field on the report.
28. The Register report will display a transactions memo field
right under the payee field if the memo field is non blank.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
4/2/97 have been corrected.
1.02.26 Important: If your are using the Business Functions,
all accounts of type Credit Account-Receivable
should be flagged as Interest Tax Deductible in order to
avoid double counting customer interest payments on various
tax reports. The interest is included in the invoice
payment transaction and is automatically accounted for
under the Gross Income tax code.
Enhancements:
1. A description field has been added to each print report
format file enabling a 100 character description to be
displayed with each print format.
2. Six additional print report format files have been added
to the one ASCII Standard print report file in the OS/2
version. The new print format report files provide two
Epson matrix formats (which can also be used with
Lexmark PPDS printers), HP PCL portrait and landscape
with small font characters sets, and Lexmark PPDS portrait
and landscape with small font character sets. These new
print formats cover most reports and printers without
having to use the multiple page option.
3. User defined tax codes can now be flagged as either expense
or income. Therefor when setting up non USA tax codes, you
have the same capabilities as those using the standard USA
tax codes.
4. You can now select which columns are actually displayed
on the Securities Query report when using the single line
format option. LoadP and SaveP functions remember the
columns selected for a memorized query.
5. Credit-liability type accounts can now be flagged as their
interest being tax deductible. This is for non USA users
whose income tax laws allow them to deduct certain types
of interest.
6. The option of flagging bills-payable and bills-receivable
as interest being tax deferred/deductible has been removed
to avoid confusion. The associated account should be flagged
as interest tax deferred/deductible depending on the case.
7. You now have the option with the calculators to turn off the
automatic switching of Num Lock on when the calculator gains
focus.
8. The LoadP and SaveP buttons now save/restore the report print
format.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
3/1/97 have been corrected.
1.02.25 Enhancements:
1. A Compile YTD Values function has been added to the Bills
menu. This function first zeros out YTD values and then
checks each transaction in the current fiscal year
compiling the YTD values for each bill. It is called
automatically when you start a new fiscal year. This means
you no longer have any timing constraint in when you start
a new fiscal year.
2. Aged Payables, Receivables, and Invoices reports have been
add which categorize each type by number of days overdue.
The categories are 1-30 days, 31-60 days, 61-90 days, and
91 or more days.
3. The Enter Transactions dialog now includes Debit and Credit
type transactions. If the business functions are enabled,
Refund, Discount, Shipping, and Tax types are available.
4. If you mark transactions with an incorrect statement date
while reconciling an account, you can now correct the mark
date on all transactions with a single operation.
5. Credit card information can now be stored in a customer's
bill record and used as the default information when paying
an invoice by credit card.
6. When processing a credit card approval, the customers address
is displayed providing the additional information now
required for credit card approvals.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
2/15/97 have been corrected.
1.02.24 Enhancements:
1. The clock feature now allows you to select which books are
to be periodically checked for due items.
2. Notes can now be scheduled as to time of day as well
as to date.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
2/3/97 have been corrected.
1.02.23 Enhancements:
1. A clock feature has been added to InCharge. The clock
runs independently of InCharge and provides the following
features:
1. Completely user configurable as to time and date
formats, desk top footprint, etc.
2. Has a calendar display. Dates can be transferred from
the calendar to other programs via the clipboard.
3. Has 10 alarms with user defined messages.
4. Has a job timer (time slips type function) with 5
independent timers which automatically calculates billable
time and charges and posts them to the customer's
InCharge account. Also notes can be entered into the
InCharge notes facility from the clock while timing a
job. The timing facilities will continue to accrue
time even if the clock or OS/2 terminate/reboot.
5. Checks the status of due items in InCharge (bills,
scheduled batch transactions, scheduled notes, and
pending CheckFree actions) and notifies the user
when they come due and which are due.
6. Can set the OS/2 system date and time quickly and
easily. For example it is very easy to adjust just
the hours on the clock for daylight savings time.
7. Can invoke the InCharge calculators.
The clock provides three modes of operation:
1. Continuously running and visible on the desk top.
2. Automatic minimizing at start up with InCharge due
items message and alarm messages displayed when
they come due.
3. Automatic termination at start up if no InCharge
items are due. If they are due a message is displayed
so that the items can be viewed.
2. Property depreciation tracking and processing has been
added to the Property Management system. Depreciation
is reported on the Net Worth (Balance Sheet) report.
3. List Accounts function now provides options for selecting
accounts to be included in the report.
4. An update bill amount due from account balance function has
been added which processes multiple accounts/bills.
5. Revenue/Sales tax report has been added which displays the
data necessary for governmental reports.
6. Transaction query refinements have been added.
7. Options on selecting customer accounts for billing along
with detail information on the status of each account has
been added to the customer selection dialog.
8. A Securities Short List option has been added enabling you
to define a short list of frequently referenced securities
to be displayed when selecting securities.
9. Budget analysis function has been added to the Edit Budget
dialog. This enables one to display the detail for the
actual values listed on the Edit Budget dialog and edit
the detail directly.
10. An option to "secure the payee" on a check by surrounding
the payee field with "**" has been added.
11. The transaction memo field has been added to batch
transactions. This enables the user to define the data
required when automatically posting repetitive charges
to a customer's account and can be used in other areas.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
1/30/97 have been corrected.
1.02.22 Enhancements:
1. The ability to set accounts and payables/receivables to
an inactive state has been added.
2. Double entry accounting has been enhanced including
automating the year end book closing function.
3. System security has been enhanced so that multiple users
for a set of books can be defined, each with their own
password and data/function access restrictions.
4. If the master password is defined for a set of books,
InCharge now keeps a log of users and their
sign on/sign off dates and times. A function has been
added to the files menu to display the log.
5. An audit trail of changes to selected fields in the
system configuration is now maintained. The audit
trail can be viewed with a function on the Files
menu.
6. The Edit Stock Quote History dialog has been enhanced
to provide quote adjustment for stock splits.
7. The Import Stock Quote History function has been
enhanced to support multiple sources.
8. Budget years can now be deleted with Select/Delete
Budget Year function on the Budget menu.
9. An additional transaction CSV import file format has
been added which is a single record per transaction format
including spread records. This format is intended
for use when importing transactions from sources other
than InCharge where the ASCII File Conversion Utility
is used to convert the output of the source program.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
12/29/96 have been corrected.
1.02.21 Enhancements:
1. A double entry accounting option has been added. This
option provides for the addition of equity type accounts
and a trial balance report to verify a set of books
are in balance. This option compliments the general
ledger, chart of accounts, and profit/loss reports add
in version 1.02.20 and makes InCharge a full function
accounting system for small businesses. Please be sure
to read the new chapter in the on-line documentation on
double entry accounting before implementing the option.
2. An ASCII file conversion utility has been added which
enables the user to quickly convert ASCII delimited and
fixed column files from one format to another. The user
has complete control over the record fields converted
including order, adding/deleting fields, converting from
one date format to another, etc.
3. The liquidity report now has a number options allowing
the user to select the sources of funds to be included in
report.
4. The net worth report now allows the user to control the
level of detail included in the net worth report detail
section.
5. The chart of accounts report has been enhanced.
6. The saving of user changes to an InCharge dialog for fonts
colors, size, and location is now optional. This can
significantly improve performance if the user is satisfied
with the default values. The option is located on the
System Configuration dialog.
7. You now reset InCharge's dialog fonts, colors, size, and
location back to the default values from within InCharge.
8. A Per Unit Valuation field has been added to each business
inventory item. This field defines the inventory value for
Net Worth, Chart of Accounts, and Trial balance reports.
It is initialized to zero and needs to be set for each
product item in the inventory.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
12/1/96 have been corrected.
1.02.20 Enhancements:
1. Multiple (unlimited number) of personal property
inventory databases are now supported under the
property management system. Property items can be
moved from one database to another.
2. Liquidity report, Liquidity History report, and Edit
Liquidity History functions have been added.
3. Bill Calendar report has been added which gives a 30 day
outlook on bill activity listing both bills due and
bills paid in that period.
4. A General Ledger report has been added which gives all
account activity (transaction adds, edits, and deletes)
over a selected period of time. This report is only
available if the small business functions have been
enabled.
5. A Chart of Accounts has been added to the Reports menu.
This report lists all asset (including fixed assets),
liability, expense, and income accounts/categories. It
is primarily for small businesses but can be used by an
individual to get an over all view of how his set of
books are set up.
6. A profit/loss report has been added for which the user
can specify the dates to be examined.
7. Present/Future value of money module added to Financial
Planner.
8. Depreciation module added to Financial Planner.
9. The ability to add, edit, delete, void, and move
transactions added to the Cash Flow Analysis Report.
Also the report can now have transactions sorted on
either date or account with in a budget category.
10. The ability to add, edit, delete, void, and move
transactions added to the Tax Report.
11. Annualized ROI added to Securities Query Report along
with other informational items on each security.
Additional sort options added to Securities Query.
12. The ability to import stock quotes from the InterNet
via Checkfree's PAW Stock Quote service has been added.
This service is free to all users of Checkfree.
13. The ability has been added to copy specific data from
a displayed report to the clipboard. This feature
enables you to transfer, for example, a value displayed
on a report to one of InCharge's calculators.
14. The batch transactions and batch budget spreads now have a
description field which is displayed when they are listed
for selection.
15. Partial payment processing, marking of past invoices paid
option when bring invoiced balance forward to new invoice,
and other enhancements to invoicing/billing added.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
11/1/96 have been corrected.
1.02.19 Enhancements:
1. When displaying the account code for selection in a list
box, the account name and number are now also displayed.
This applies to all dialogs including the Open Account
dialog.
2. The Open Account dialog has been completely redesigned.
You can now specify which accounts are to be listed for
selection instead of having all of them listed. While in
the dialog, you can change the list criteria and the last
one used will be the default for the next time the dialog
is invoked. One option is the Short List which is a user
specified list of accounts. Other options include selecting
Full List, Current Asset, Checking, Payables, Receivables,
Credit Cards, and Brokerage accounts.
3. The popup calendar has been enhanced so that the previous,
current, and next month are displayed. The day of the month
can be selected from any of the three months. The month with
selected day becomes the current month on the display.
4. Dates can now be optionally entered in numeric format (e.g.,
for the USA format a date can be entered as MMDDYYYY,
MMDDYY, or MMDD).
5. A function to generate a transaction to adjust the current
balance is now available on the Balance menu on the Edit
Transactions menu bar.
6. When listing securities for selection, the account holding
the security is included with each security in the list.
7. The Edit Quote History function now allows you to change
the ticker code for an entire group of quotes. You can
also delete a group of quotes.
8. The link between a bill and its associated account can
now be edited from the Edit Account dialog as well
as the Edit Bill dialog.
9. New data file recovery functions have been added for
bill, property, securities, insurance, and business
inventory files.
10. Additional sections have be added to the on-line
documentation.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of
10/10/96 have been corrected.
1.02.18 Enhancements:
1. The entire on-line documentation and help text system has
been rewritten. Every section has been edited and enhanced,
many new sections added, graphics added, and over 3,000
Hypertext links added.
2. A new Securities report has been added which gives a detailed
history of all actions on a specific security including buy,
edit, dividends, re-investments, splits, quote updates, sales,
etc.
3. A new Budget report has been added which details by category
expense and income through a user specified month.
4. You can now set a date range for quotes to be included in the
Securities History report.
5. You can now set a date range for the Net Worth History report.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of 9/10/96
have been corrected.
1.02.17 Enhancements:
1. The Net Worth History file can now be edited.
2. The item selection dialogs for editing budget categories,
bills, property, securities, insurance, and business
inventory have been redesigned. A Clone function has
been added to the dialogs enabling you create a new
item by copying an existing item.
3. The Delete function has been added to the Mark
Transactions dialog.
4. The Outstanding Transactions Report now has functions
for adding, editing, voiding, deleting, and moving
transactions.
5. The Adjust Account Balances dialog has been expanded and
improved. You can set the account balance at the close
of business on any date and have the current balance
automatically adjusted. The dialog also now takes into
effect the goal account balance. The dialog can now be
invoked from the Accounts menu and Edit Account dialog
as well as the Edit Transactions dialog as before.
6. A search function for budget categories, tax categories,
and bills has been added to the Enter Transactions
dialog's popup menu. This makes it much easier to find
a specific category or bill when there are a large number
of items.
7. Import and Export functions in CSV format have been added
for bills on the bills menu.
8. A New button has been added to the second page of the
edit bills function under the list box for Associated
Accounts and Escrow Accounts enabling you to create
the respective account at the time you create a new
bill or loan. This means you can now create the entire
payable/receivable whether you start with creating the
account or the bill.
9. The edit default budget/tax codes dialog has been eliminated
from the business functions dialog. Now you define default
budget/tax codes on the Edit Company dialog for auto deposit
of payments to a cash or checking account
10. The user can now substitute his own icon (.ICO file) or
bit mapped (.BMP) graphics for the default ones used for
the user defined buttons on the Main dialog. Also, the
an unneeded user defined button may "removed".
11. The Dividend History file can now be directly edited for
purposes of correcting tax report information.
12. VAT/GST taxes may now be printed separately from sales taxes
on invoices. Also a new option is provided to collect sales
tax on VAT/GST taxes.
13. An initial dialog can now be specified to be invoked
when starting an InCharge session or opening a different
set of books. Any of 112 major dialogs may be specified.
14. When recalling a "remembered" transaction, the budget
category's default tax category will override the
remembered tax category.
15. A dialog is now provided which enables you to view and
reassign budget categories to groups. This makes it much
easier to organize budget categories into groups.
16. Transaction, Property, Securities, Insurance, and Inventory
Query parameters and Budget Report selection criteria can
now be saved and later recalled for repetitive reports. As
many different parameter sets as needed may be saved and
recalled. Previously saved parameter sets can also be deleted
when no longer needed.
Problem fixes: All problems reported and verified as of 8/3/96
have been corrected.
1.02.16 Enhancements:
1. Ten user definable buttons have been added to the main
dialog. You can specify a function to be called
directly when you click on each of the ten buttons.
2. An edit function has been added to the securities menu
which enables you to directly edit the stock quote
history file.
3. A notes facility has been added which enables you to
enter, edit, delete, search, and schedule notes from
any dialog. The facility is available through a
dialog's popup menu.
4. The Transaction Query/Report Writer function has been
enhanced so that only amounts for the base transaction
or transaction spread are included in the total debits/
credits if that specific transaction or spread was
selected. If the base transaction is selected, then its
spread record amounts are not included in the totals. If
a spread record is selected, its amount, not the amount
of its base transaction is included in the totals.
Amounts not include in the totals are display enclosed
in ().
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 7/12/96
have been corrected.
1.02.15 Enhancements:
1. The main dialog has been redesign with a new "control
panel" approach enabling direct access to all of the
most commonly used functions.
2. Menu bars have been added to a number of dialogs which
enables direct access to functions normally used in
conjunction with the dialogs.
3. The Enter Transactions dialog has been redesigned to
minimize possible transaction type errors when selecting
a remembered payee.
4. A Rebuild Invoice File has been added for recovering
corrupted invoice files.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 6/9/96
have been corrected.
1.02.14 Enhancements:
1. A calendar has been added to the popup menu which can be
used to enter the date in any date field. To access the
calendar, with the mouse cursor on the active InCharge
dialog, click the right mouse button.
2. The Bills menu item on the Enter Transactions dialog has
been enhanced so that while in this dialog you can now
create a new bill, select bills for payment, or display
a bill's history.
3. You may now create and store an unlimited number of report
formats (e.g., one for landscape printing and one for
portrait printing) under the OS/2 version. When printing
a report, any of the formats may be selected.
4. You may now create and store an unlimited number of check
print formats. You can print checks for any account which
has one or more check print formats defined for it.
5. The number of secondary currencies supported has been
increased from 10 to 99.
6. The credit balance (difference between the credit limit
and current balance) is now displayed on the Enter
Transactions dialog and Account Register report.
7. New fields have been added to the property record for
model number, serial number, and warranty expiration
date.
8. A reciprocal key has been added to both calculators.
9. Processing a batch transaction from the Enter Transactions
dialog will now optionally update the scheduled
processing date if the batch transaction had been
scheduled for periodic processing.
10. Additional transaction information is now displayed
on the Transaction Spread dialog.
11. At midnight, InCharge will update its version of today's
date if it is running.
12. File structure for a set of books has been modified making
it easier to synchronize the same set of books on two
different computers. For more details, see the "How to"
chapter, "Synchronize Books" section in the on-line
documentation.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 5/23/96
have been corrected.
1.02.13 This version is an internal test version verifying a
new release of the development tools used to build
InCharge.
1.02.12 Enhancements:
1. Popup menus have been added to all dialogs enabling
direct access to many utility functions at any time.
2. Additional transaction types have been added for
invoicing/billing/order entry.
3. Remembering of payees on the Enter Transactions dialog
can now be turned on/off.
4. Enter transactions dialog now displays both the account
current balance and the balance as of "today".
5. Power and percent keys have been added to the algebraic
calculator.
6. Power key has been added to the RPN calculator.
7. When reconciling an account with an associated goal
account, the transfer transactions to/from the the
goal account are no longer displayed on the Mark
Transactions dialog and Outstanding Transactions
report.
8. When entering customer charges or preparing an invoice,
processing has been expanded and generalized so that you
can, for example, create an invoice for refunding an
amount and associated tax.
9. Tax calculation for GST/VAT taxes on customer purchases
has been rationalized to be consistent with tracking
of taxes on vendor purchases.
10. Additional icons have been added to the main dialog
for quickly accessing the business functions of
order entry, billing, and invoicing.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 4/17/96
have been corrected.
1.02.11 Enhancements:
1. Many button names have been change for improved
usability.
2. Dialog context sensitive help text for many dialogs
has been enhanced to give task oriented information.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 4/1/96
have been corrected.
1.02.10 Enhancements:
1. A four function RPN calculator has been added as an
alternative to the algebraic calculator. It can also
be used with other programs or stand alone. The
calculator includes a tape which can be printed and
supports data transfer with other programs via the OS/2
Clipboard.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 3/31/96
have been corrected.
1.02.09 Enhancements:
1. A four function calculator has been added which is
always available while using In Charge. It can also
be used with other programs or stand alone. The
calculator includes a tape which can be printed and
supports data transfer with other programs via the OS/2
Clipboard.
2. The Accounts menu import functions have been enhanced
with a function to import the CompuServe credit card
statement.
3. An new graphics style has been added for the Net Worth
report.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 3/15/96
have been corrected.
1.02.09 Enhancements:
1. A four function calculator has been added which is
always available while using In Charge. It can also
be used with other programs or stand lone. The
calculator includes a tape which can be printed and
supports data transfer with other programs via the OS/2
Clipboard.
2. The Accounts menu import functions have been enhanced
with a function to import the CompuServe credit card
statement.
3. An new graphics style has been added for the Net Worth
report.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 3/15/96
have been corrected.
1.02.08 Enhancements:
1. A full graphical report subsystem has been added. When
a report is displayed and it makes sense to present it
in graph form, the Graph button will be visible on the
report dialog. Clicking on the button will present the
data in either line, bar, or pie chart form depending
on which is best. The original report remains active
and you can switch back and forth between the table
graphical form of the report.
2. When editing budget data, you now have the options to
view the edited data in graphical form while in the
Edit Budget dialog.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 3/1/96
have been corrected.
1.02.07 IMPORTANT: With this modification of In Charge all stock
quote updates are based on ticker code, not security
code. Before installing this version you should insure
all of your securities have a ticker code defined for them
since InCharge will update the stock quote history file
replacing security codes with ticker codes for those
securities that have a ticker code.
Enhancements:
1. A Goal accounts facility has been added to In Charge.
These accounts are subaccounts to a regular account
such as your checking account and can be used to
dynamically "squirrel" away amounts that are intended
for future specific expenses. When a credit/debit is
posted to the regular account, you can optionally
specify the funds are to go to or come from the goal
account.
2. A paycheck batch transaction generator dialog has been
added which makes it very easy to create the batch
transaction and batch budget category required for
processing a paycheck.
3. A corporate divestiture function has been added to
securities management to process the split off of
a part of a company to create a new company.
4. A corporate merger function has been added to
securities management to process the merge of
two companies into one.
5. You may now define a default payment account for each
bill. When you pay the bill, In Charge will check
to see if the bill has a default payment account. If
it does and the current open account is not the same
as the default account, it will warn you and ask if you
want the default account used for paying the bill.
6. A transaction archive function has been added which
enables you to store off-line account transactions
which you not longer need to reference. This will
free up disk space. Archived transactions can be
later imported if you do need to reference them.
7. A large number of minor usability enhancements have been
made to functions, reports, and dialogs.
8. Context sensitive help has been improved in a number of
areas.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 2/22/96
have been corrected.
1.02.06 Enhancements:
1. A "smart" default date capability has been added
which guesses at what the statement date should
be when reconciling an account. The default date
is calculated based on the last two statements
reconciled for the account.
2. A "smart" default bill due date capability has
been added which guesses at what the due date for
for a bill should be when using the Bill Update
function.
3. Additional formatting options have been added for
printing invoices. You can now optionally position
the page number on multiple page bills. Also
you can optionally suppress printing the customer
name on the second and following pages of a multiple
page invoice using the space for an expanded line
item area.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 2/7/96
have been corrected.
1.02.05 Enhancements:
1. The transaction spread function may now be used to
allocate funds to multiple transfer accounts from
a single transaction.
2. The transaction spread function may now be used to
pay multiple bills with a single transaction.
3. Handling of XXX# type tax codes is now consistent.
4. Transactions in a batch transaction can now
reference the account balance for purposes of
calculating the amount of the transaction.
5. The securities query report now displays the capital
gains that would be realized if the stock were
sold on the date of the report for the current
value.
6. Ease-of-use enhancements made through changes to
button names for greater consistency.
7. On-line documentation enhancements in the "How To"
chapter and other areas.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 1/30/96
have been corrected.
1.02.04 Enhancements:
1. The Securities Re-investment function has been enhanced
so that you may now create a new "lot" when re-investing
in a security held by an account rather than merge it into
the existing security.
2. The Securities Re-investment function has been enhanced
so that you may now re-invest in securities held as
certificates.
3. The Securities Re-investment function has been enhanced
so that the re-investment may be entered as either a
total amount or as a price per share.
4. The batch budget category facility has been enhanced so that
you can now modify the transaction amount being spread for
special situations.
5. In Charge now automatically spreads the components of a loan
payment on the loan payment transaction. The interest,
principal, escrow, and additional moneys are allocated to
either the budget category specified on the transaction or
the default loan budget category. The interest payment is
also allocated to the default loan tax category if the loan
interest has been marked as deductible. The interest payments
now show up immediately on tax reports, you no longer have to
wait until after a fiscal year has been closed.
6. The amount of a loan payment in excess of the loan's total
payment amount is now allocated to either principal, escrow,
or penalty fields. You specify where the excess payment is
to be allocated in the loan record.
7. The time constraint on when to use the Start New Fiscal Year
has been removed. Tax reports are no longer constrained by the
fiscal year.
8. The Cash Flow Analysis report has been enhanced to provide
more and better information.
9. The Tax reports have been re-designed to treat income and
expense in a manner consistent with budget categories.
10. A Merge function has been added to the securities edit
dialog which enables you to merge the security being
edited into another with the same security code. This means
that separate "lots" of the of the same security can now
be merged.
11. A Split function has been added to the securities edit
dialog which enables you to spit a security into two
securities with the same security code. This means
that two "lots" of a security may be created from one.
12. Tracking of VAT/GST taxes paid on purchases has been added
when the small business functions are enabled. When posting
the payment transaction for a purchase, you can now post
directly to the VALUETAX account the amount of the VAT/GST
tax.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 1/20/96
have been corrected.
1.02.03 Enhancements:
1. When entering a purchase for a new item, you can now
immediately add it to your home inventory by clicking on
the Inventory button on the Enter Transactions dialog.
2. Previously, editing of Checkfree transactions was prohibited.
Now the budget, tax, memo, and transfer fields can be edited.
3. A check box which limits a securities query to only those
securities currently owned has been added.
4. When marking (reconciling) transactions, the subtotals for
checks and other debits are now displayed.
5. When marking transactions, you can optionally enter the
statement's beginning and ending balance and have
In Charge validate the beginning balance and notify you when
the ending balances match.
6. A new securities update function has been added which enables
you to update the current price, name, and exchange code for
all securities with the same ticker code.
7. An OS/2 command file has been included which will enable you
to build the distribution diskettes if you receive the program
electronically as one or more ZIP files.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 1/2/96
have been corrected.
1.02.02 Enhancements:
1. New parameters have been added to the Check Format file
for the OS/2 version which allow better control of
printing check forms which are single sheet with 2 or
more checks per sheet.
2. Check format "style" sheets have been added to the OS/2
version which contain predefined parameters and
setup/reset strings for the most common single
sheet/multiple checks per sheet check forms and printers.
If you have one of the check form/printers supported,
you need only select it to set up your check print format.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 12/27/95
have been corrected.
1.02.01 Enhancements:
1. New transaction spread dialog allows one to view,
add, correct, and delete all spread entries for a
transaction at one time.
2. Support for ZIP201 added as an alternative backup
program for the OS/2 version. This support is the
same as for PKZIP.
3. Subtotals for the major budget category when using
subcategories have been added to the budget report
for a selected month and spread by category budget
report.
Problem fixes: All problems reported as of 12/16/95
have been corrected.
