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- INDEX
-
- 1. SETUP OF YOUR PROGRAM
- 2. NORMAL ACCOUNTING CYCLE
- 3. DEPOSIT, JOURNAL & ACCOUNTS
- PAYABLE MENUS
- 4. UTILITIES MENU
- 5. CLOSE YEAR
- 6. DATA FILES
- 7. OTHER HELP FILES
- 8. SHAREWARE CONCEPT
-
- 1. SETUP OF YOUR PROGRAM
-
- The Accounting 101 program (101.exe) will be
- located in a subdirectory named Acct and the
- data files will be located in a subdirectory
- under the Acct subdirectory which is named
- 101. To run the program do as follows:
-
- cd\acct {gets into the acct subdirectory}
- 101 {runs the program}
- cd\ {gets back to the root directory}
-
- 2.NORMAL ACCOUNTING CYCLE
-
- You may enter your monthly transactions during
- the month as you like. The transaction files
- will have an extension which identifies the
- month to which they apply. (.jan, .feb, etc.)
- Print your checks when you like. The program
- will not prevent you from printing a check
- twice. That is your responsibility. You may
- recall transactions and amend them before
- posting but not after.
-
- After entering all of your transactions for
- the month, and printing out the various
- journals, you should select the End Of The
- Month menu from the Main Menu.
-
- Upon entering the End of the Month Menu, the
- first thing you should do is to post your
- transactions for that month. Until they are
- posted, the transactions will not be reflected
- in your accounts. Posting the transactions
- enters them in the current month columns in
- you account.
-
- After posting, I would suggest that you
- reconcile your bank account to be certain that
- your transaction entries agree with those of
- the bank.
-
- If you would like to have an activity
- journal(all activity shown by account number)
- and trial balance, they can be printed at this
- time. You may skip these if you desire.
-
- After reconciling the bank account, you should
- print out your Income statement and your
- Balance Sheet and, if they appear to be in
- order, then close the month in order to
- prepare for the following months transactions.
-
- You may begin entering transactions for a
- subsequent month prior to closing a particular
- month, but do not post these transactions
- before the previous month is closed.
-
- 3. DEPOSITS, JOURNAL & ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MENUS
-
- Select these menu items when you are ready to
- begin entering your transactions for the
- month. You will be presented with another menu
- from which you can enter your transactions,
- print checks, print out a journal of your
- transactions or inspect your transactions on
- the screen.
-
- When you display the Deposits or the Checks on
- the screen, the debits or credits to your bank
- accounts will be highlighted so that you can
- easily pick them out. When displaying the
- Deposits or Checks the totals of deposits or
- checks can be shown by pressing the F2 key.
-
- 4. UTILITIES MENU
-
- Selecting this menu item will take you to the
- Utilities Menu from which you may do such as
- amend your chart of accounts and inspect your
- transaction file for the year to date.
-
- 5. CLOSE YEAR
-
- After the final month in your accounting year
- is closed, you should close the year. This
- will transfer the net amount of your Income
- and Expense accounts for the year to your
- equity account and zero all of the Income and
- Expense accounts. You are then ready to begin
- the next accounting year. Since this a
- procedure that you do not want to do
- inadvertantly, you are asked to confirm by
- typing in "Yes" before the closure is
- effected.
-
- 6. DATA FILES
-
- As mentioned above, all of the data files are
- kept in a subdirectory named 101 under the
- Acct subdirectory. The Account file will be
- named Acctfile.dat. The transaction files will
- have an extension of jan through dec for each
- of the months. However, when you close a
- month, the extensions will be renamed to 01,
- 02, 03, etc.
-
- A history of your transactions will be
- maintained for each year. The transaction file
- for 1991 will be named Tran91.dat. The
- transactions for a particular month are not
- added to the transaction file until the month
- is closed.
-
- Your Deposit Code, Vendor Code, and Journal
- Code data will be maintained in files named
- Depcode.dat, Vendcode.dat, and JrnCode.dat.
-
- You may list your data files by selecting the
- Back Up Files procedure from the Utility Menu.
- After the files are listed you may use the
- Escape key to exit without backing up at that
- time.
-
- 7. OTHER HELP FILES
-
- There are other help files which can be
- called up from other parts of the program.
-
- 8. SHAREWARE CONCEPT
-
- This program is Copyrighted but distributed
- under the Shareware concept. That is, you are
- free to try out this program for as long as
- you wish without charge. If you decide to use
- it, you should send $25.00 to:
-
- Iddo L. Enochs
- 403 Cherokee Drive
- Mc Comb, MS 39648
-
- Also, you may make copies and distribute them
- to friends and acquaintances for a nominal fee
- to cover the cost of the disk and mailing
- costs. You are requested to see that all files
- are included with the disk.
-
- Thanks for making the Shareware concept work.
-
- END.