View a list of Assets that you currently have defined, along with the $ value of this asset. Certain Assets, such as your bank accounts will automatically be updated as you write checks and make deposits to those accounts. To add a new item press INS. To change the value or description of an item use the and keys to position the highlight bar on the item and press ENTER. To delete an item use the and keys to position the highlight bar on the item and press DEL. Press ESC to exit Help The Budgets function is used to create or modify your annual budget. Press the keys to move the highlight bar to the Income or Expense line and press to make your selection. Press ESC to exit Help Update your budget categories here. Enter a category description of your choice. The categories are displayed in alphabetical order. You have the option of leaving all Amount fields blank or filling in any or all fields with $ amounts. If you enter an amount in the Annual budget field, each monthly amount will be calculated as 1/12th of the annual total. This monthly amount can be overridden by simply entering a new amount in the monthly column. The annual total will automatically be updated to reflect any changes in the monthly columns. Remember, these are only estimates for your budget and can be changed at any time simply by recalling this screen and entering amounts of your choosing. The Actual column shows all check and deposit postings from all of your accounts. These columns will be updated whenever these is activity in any of your accounts. You may change amounts here by entering new amounts. You may, optionally enter a Tax form for this category. This will help you in summarizing your Income and Expenses by Tax category. Press ESC to exit Help Enter the From and To dates to be used in creating this report. These dates are required. The report will be created containing information for these dates (inclusive). After you enter the To-date, the report will start printing. Make sure that your printer is turned on and On-line, otherwise a "Printer not ready" message will be displayed. Press ESC to exit Help Enter the deposit amount to be posted to this account. The account balance will be incremented by this amount. When Budget field is highlighted, press F10 to view a list of Budget categories. Press ESC to exit Help All of the Expense categories that you have defined can be viewed here. The 3 amount columns show 1) To-Date Budgeted, 2) To-Date Actual and 3) Variance. These amounts are from January or whenever you started using CASH MANAGER and will be accurate to the extent that you post all Expenses to any one or more of these categories. To add a new account, press INS and the new account screen will be displayed. To change an existing account use the and keys to highlight your choice, then press To delete an existing account use the and keys to highlight your choice, then press DEL. Press ESC to exit Help Fill in all information to write the check. The check date will default to today's date, but you can enter any date you wish - to postdate a check, for example. To view a list of pre-defined payees, press F10 when the highlight bar is on the Payee field. If a Payee is not defined, entering the name on the check will automatically "save" this name for future use. When the highlight bar is on the budget category field, press F9 to view a list of all budget categories, then select a category to post this check amount to. Leave this field blank if you do not want to post this amount to a budget category. Press CTRL_ESC if you do not want to write the check. Press ESC to exit Help Update payee information on this screen. By defining the payees here, you'll save time whenever you write checks because you will not have to re-key this information for each check. Also, if the payment amount is fixed each time (such as a car loan) enter it here and it will be pre-filled on the check. Press ESC to exit Help All of the Income categories that you have defined can be viewed here. The 3 amount columns show 1) To-Date Budgeted, 2) To-Date Actual and 3) Variance. These amounts are from January or whenever you started using CASH MANAGER and will be accurate to the extent that you post all Income to any one or more of these categories. To add a new account, press INS and the new account screen will be displayed. To change an existing account use the and keys to highlight your choice, then press To delete an existing account use the and keys to highlight your choice, then press DEL. Press ESC to exit Help View a list of Liabilities you currently have defined, along with the amount of this item. To add a new item press INS. To change the value or description of an item use the and keys to position the highlight bar on the item and press ENTER. To delete an item use the and keys to position the highlight bar on the item and press DEL. Press ESC to exit Help aLPHLP2 This feature allows you to track the outstanding PRINCIPAL balance of any loan payment such as your mortgage, car payment, etc. Remember, every time you make a loan payment, a good portion of that payment goes for interest and the rest to reduce the outstanding principal of the loan. CASH MANAGER will automatically calculate the Interest portion of a payment for you and apply the remainder to the outstanding balance. You need to supply the following: 1. Beginning date of loan 2. Original loan amount or Present balance 3. Rate (%) 4. Number of months loan is for (Enter # of months remaining if you entered the Present balance on # 2 above). 5. Liability account to update Don't worry about the current balance or payment number. This will be automatically calculated for you based on the start date of this loan and the current date. The outstanding principal owed may be viewed on the Liabilities screen from the Net Worth Menu. Press for more or ESC to exit Help Examples: 1. You took out a loan on June 1st, 1989 to buy a car. The loan is for 48 months at 10.50% interest. You borrowed $12, Start date of loan: 6/01/89 Amount borrowed Interest rate 11.00 Number of months : The monthly payment $307.24 will be calculated for you. 2. You bought your home 4 years ago with an adjustable rate mortgage. Through various annual rate adjustments and 4 years of payments, you have reduced your original $75, balance to $72,500 (this is an example only, remember), and your 30 year mortgage is now down to 26 years. Your new rate adjustment statement arrives in the mail and shows the outstanding balance to be $72,500 the new interest rate at 11.0% and the new payment effective date. 1) Enter the effective date as the start date. 2) Enter the new balance as the Present balance (leave original amount blank), 3) Enter new rate and # of months remaining (360 - 48 = 312 in this example). The new monthly payment will be calculated for you. This is the CASH MANAGER Main menu. You can select the following choices: Banking - Set up your accounts, write and print checks, print the check register, print the outstanding checks report, define payees and reconcile your accounts. Budgets - Set up budget accounts for Income and Expenses. Net Worth- Define your Assets and Liabilities (House, Car, Mortgage etc.) Reminder - Update the reminder pad. Track important dates & special events. Reports - Print various reports on printer. Taxes - Set up tax categories to organize your expenses into deductible and non-deductible categories. Press ESC to exit Help The Net Worth function tracks your Assets and Liabilities. Use the keys to move the highlight bar to the Assets or Liabilities line and press ENTER to make your selection. Press ESC to exit Help The Banking function allows you to write and print checks, generate reports, define payees, reconcile bank statements and set up your accounts. Use the cursor keys to highlight your selection, then press ENTER. Press ESC to exit Help Press ENTER to display a list of accounts on which to print checks. After you select an account, enter the Print Up to date. This date will determine the checks to be printed. NOTE: CASH MANAGER will print the checks at 10 CPI (characters per inch). Make sure that your printer is configured correctly. Please see your printer manual on how to configure your printer for 10 CPI. After you load the checks in the printer, you can print an alignment check by pressing the F10 key. You can repeat this procedure until the checks are aligned properly. When you are ready to print the actual checks, enter the starting check number and press the ENTER key to start printing. Press ESC to exit Help This screen shows a list of your Expense categories. You will post the $ amount to one or more of these categories. To post to one category: Press to move the highlight bar to the budget category to post to, then press ENTER to transfer it. To post to multiple categories: Press to move the highlight bar to the category to post to, then press F10. Another screen will pop up requesting that you enter a portion of the $ amount to post. Repeat this process until the entire $ amount has been posted. To create a new category: If the category that you want to post to does not exist, press INS to create it now. After it has been created, the Expense accounts screen will be displayed again with the new category highlighted. Post to this category as described above. Press ESC to exit Help On this screen you can see all transactions which have not been reconciled yet. The important item to remember here is the DIFFERENCE field. This is the difference between the ending balance on the bank statement and your checkbook. As you clear transactions this item will change. When the DIFFERENCE field is 0 (zero) your account is in balance. To clear a transaction: Use the and keys to move the highlight bar to a specific item and press the key. This will display another screen showing the details of this transaction. You will be requested to press the key to clear this transaction or to press the ESC key to cancel. Repeat this procedure until all items on the bank statement have been cleared. You may want to check off the items on the statement as you clear them to avoid confusion of which ones were cleared and which were not. After you finish clearing all items, there may be some items left on the screen. These items are still outstanding and will need to be cleared next month. Press ESC to exit Help This is the first step in reconciling your accounts to be in balance with your bank statement. To select an account: Enter the account number or press the F10 key to display a list of accounts, then select an account from that list. Beginning balance: The beginning balance will be shown here. This is the ending balance from the prior month's reconciliation. You can override this amount by simply entering a new amount. Ending balance: Enter the ending balance as shown on your current bank statement. Interest: Enter any interest that is shown on the bank statement but was not entered in the check register. Other charges: Enter any bank charges shown on your bank statement that were not entered in the check register. After you've entered all information, press the ENTER key to display the next screen which will show all outstanding transactions. Press ESC to exit Help Use this screen to keep track of important dates and events. Note that the future date shows the day of the week that it falls on along with the number of days from today. Press INS to add a new reminder, or use the keys to move the highlight bar to a specific event and press ENTER to change that event. Press DEL to delete a specific event. Press ESC to exit Help Enter the date of any event that you want to keep track of. Also enter up to 2 lines of descriptive information. Press ESC to exit Help This screen lists the various reports that you can print on your printer. Use the keys to select a specific report to print, then press ENTER to start printing. Depending on the report, additional screens may be displayed asking for more information before the report is printed. The first selection on this screen provides the option of printing your report to a disk file of your choosing. This provides a method of creating the report(s) now, but printing them a later time. Press ESC to exit Help This screen shows the accounts that you have defined, along with the current balance in that account. Press INS to add a new account. Use the and keys to move the highlight bar to your choice and press ENTER to change this account or DEL to delete this account. WARNING: If you delete an account on which you have written checks, you will NOT be able to access those checks for review or for any reports that you may wish to create for that account. If you plan to close an account, simply enter a zero (0) balance for that account and leave it on file. Press ESC to exit Help Set up all of your accounts here. Use this screen to also adjust the account balance. Enter the account number, account name and current or starting balance. The amount you enter in the balance field will become the current account balance. Press ESC to exit Help This screen shows your Net Worth. This is a summary of all Assets less Liabilities. To update the Net Worth, use the Asset or Liability screens to update your Assets and Liabilities. Your Net Worth will be updated whenever your Asset or Liability amounts change. Press ESC to exit Help This screen shows a list of pre-defined payees. Enter the first letter of a payee name in the Search For field to speed-search for a specific payee. This is very useful if you have several payees defined and the one you are looking for is not on the screen. Press INS to add a new payee, or use the and keys to highlight a specific payee and press ENTER to change the payee or press DEL to delete a payee. This screen can be called by pressing the F10 key from the PAY TO field when you are writing a check. If the checks you write to this payee are used to pay off a loan, you can define that loan by using the and keys to select the payee then pressing the F10 key to display the loan definition screen. Press ESC to exit Help You may optionally print a report (or checks) to a disk file and then print this file on a printer at a later time. Enter the filename and, optionally the drive and directory name to print to. For example: C:\REPORTS\CHECKREG.PRT will create the diskfile CHECKREG.PRT in the directory REPORTS on drive C. CHECKREG.PRT will create the diskfile CHECKREG.PRT in the current directory on the current drive. After you enter the file name, press ENTER to return to the Reports Menu screen and then select the report to print. Use standard DOS names to define your name. That is, up to 8 positions to the left, an optional . and up to 3 positions to the right of the period. To print directly to the printer, press ESC twice now to return to the Reports Menu and select a report to print. Press ESC to exit Help Press ENTER to display a list of accounts on which to print the check register. After you select the account, enter the starting and ending dates for the report. Press ENTER to start printing the report. Press ESC to exit Help Use the keys to move the highlight bar to your selection. Press ENTER to make your selection. Press ESC to exit Help View Tax Categories for your Budget accounts. To add a new category, press the INS key. To change a category, use the keys to move the highlight bar to your choice and press the ENTER key. To delete a category, use the keys to move the highlight bar to your choice and press the DEL key. Press ESC to exit Help Transfer funds between 2 accounts. You may transfer any amount up to the available balance that is in the account that you want to transfer from. This amount is shown in the Available field on the last line of the screen. The account that you are currently working with is the default account to transfer from. To transfer funds from a different account, key in the account number or enter any number (such as 1) to display a list of accounts. Then you can select an account from that list. Enter the account number to transfer the funds to, or press the key to display a list of accounts, then select an account from that list. Finally, enter a $ amount (up to the available amount) to transfer. The account balance of both accounts will be changed. Press ESC to exit Help Use this screen to set up Asset accounts. Enter the description, date you bought this asset and the current $ value. Press ESC to exit Help Use this screen to set up Liability accounts. Enter the Description, Date you took on this liability and current $ amount owed. If you are defining a Loan account (such as a car loan, mortgage, etc.) you can have CASH MANAGER track the PRINCIPAL amount owed on this loan automatically every time you make a payment. That is, CASH MANAGER will calculate how much of this payment goes to Principal and how much goes to Interest each time you write a check. To set up the loan feature, select "Payee Information" from the "Banking" menu. Press ESC to exit Help Use this screen to post all or a portion of this $ amount to a specific category. The amount remaining to be posted is shown along with the category to post Enter any $ amount up to the amount remaining to be posted. Press ESC to exit Help Enter the withdrawal amount to be posted to this account. The account balance will be decremented by this amount. If you wrote a manual check, enter the check number here. You may optionally post this withdrawal to a specific budget category. If you don't know which category to post to, press the F10 key when the highlight bar is on the Budget Category field. This will display a screen of all categories. Now select a category from this list and it will be transferred to the withdrawal screen. Press ESC to exit Help This is the check register screen. All transactions (checks, deposits, withdrawals) are contained here. Every time you create a transaction, it will show here. Initially all transactions will show as the check number. After you print checks, the check numbers will be shown for all printed checks. Deposits and withdrawals (Cash, ATM card etc.) will show in the check number field since these are not printed. To select an account enter the account number or press ENTER to display a list of accounts to select from, then select an account from that list. If no accounts are set up yet, the Account Update screen will pop up automatically for you to set up a new account. The following choices are available: INS - Write a new check - Change an existing check DEL - Delete a check F10 - View checks for a payee F7 - Enter a withdrawal F8 - Enter a deposit F5 - Void an entry Press ESC to exit Help View all checks issued for a specific payee. Press the F10 key to display a list of all payees, then use the and keys to highlight a specific name. The name you select will be displayed in the Name field on the top part of the screen. Now press to view all checks for this payee. You can repeat this process as often as you wish to. Press ESC to return to the check register screen. Press ESC to exit Help !ASTHLP BMHLP BUPDHLP DATEHLP DEPHLP EXPHLP GCHKHLP ( GETPHLP INCHLP LIAHLP . LPHLP )" LPHLP2 .' MNUHLP NWMHLP PBHLP f2 PCHKHLP F4 POSTHLP o9 RECHLP H? RECONHLPRE RNHLP [K RNUHLP RPTHLP SBAHLP yR SBAUPD SNWHLP SPAYHLP SPDSTHLP SREGHLP TAXHLP TCATHLP TRANHLP UASTHLP ULIAHLP Cp UPOSTHLP WITHHLP WRCHKHLP ZOOMHLP