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WELCOME TO THE TEMPLATE GUIDE FOR Q&A VERSION 3.0.
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Q&A Is the top-rated, best-selling database and word processor that is
versatile, powerful, and easy to use. In an effort to help you produce
results quickly, we have provided six pre-defined and preprogrammed
database templates. These useful Q&A applications provide solutions for
many problems and will supply you with the tools that can be
incorporated into your own applications.
Here is a brief description of how each template can help you:
o INVENTORY MANAGEMENT WITH DEPRECIATION SCHEDULE
Track inventory items and calculate their depreciation schedules.
o INVOICE FORM
Fill out, print and track invoices. Print reports summarizing
periodic sales activity.
o LOAN CALCULATOR
Consider all related expenses involved in home loan planning.
Calculate initial costs and monthly payments.
o MAIL LIST MANAGEMENT
Maintain contact and company information. Use this information
to create custom letters, envelopes and labels.
o PERSONAL ACCOUNTANT
Track checks, credit cards and savings account activity.
Calculate balances and automatically print checks.
o Q&A HANGMAN
Play the popular game and then learn more about the powerful
programming language that created it.
Overviews for all the templates included in this archive follow.
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT WITH DEPRECIATION SCHEDULE
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This template can be used in any environment which requires tracking
equipment. It is split into two pages. Page 1 is used to enter
information about the equipment such as its description and location.
Page 2 allows you to enter financial information, and will automatically
calculate a depreciation schedule based upon a number of years.
The depreciation schedule on page 2 is a very powerful planning tool
because like a spreadsheet, you can change the values and it will
quickly recalculate. The template considers the time value of money and
tax rates and therefore gives you the ability to plan actual tax effects
prior to the purchase of any item.
Reports included: Depreciation Information: Calculates all benefits due
to depreciation, Equipment list by building, department and employee,
Equipment list by employee, equipment list by type, and Total value of
all equipment.
Print Specifications included: Equipment summary
INVOICE FORM
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The invoice form is designed to allow immediate data entry and print out
of an invoice form. The data entry is highly simplified because much of
the customer SOLD TO: information is looked up from prior invoices and
the SHIP TO: information can be looked up or automatically transferred
from the SOLD TO: information.
There is room in the invoice body for up to eight items and when the
price and quantity are entered, the extended price is automatically
calculated as well as the tax and grand totals. When the invoice is
filled out, you can immediately print out as many of the invoices as
desired.
Reports included: Payment Methods: Categorized by payment method, Daily
Sales report, and Daily Salesman report.
Print Specifications included: Customer address list and Shipping log.
Filename: INVOICE.DTF
LOAN CALCULATOR
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The loan calculator is a complete planning tool which evaluates all
aspects of a property loan. It considers income sources, expenditures,
property price, related expenses and loan type to provide key figures in
determining loan qualification. The calculations are based on actual
real estate rules and considers user-defined qualification requirements.
Filename: LOANCALC.DTF
MAIL LIST MANAGEMENT
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The Mail List Manager is in itself a complete people tracking database.
But when customized for your particular business, it will become an even
more powerful tool. The template includes a safeguard against erroneous
duplications. It will display information from the duplicate record and
provide an option to copy the data or to ignore the warning.
The template also provides a way to mark each record for future activity
such as rolodex or label printing. it will also automatically calculate
the week before a particular birthday if a birthday card is required to
be sent.
Reports included: Birthday list, Phone number list, and Zipcode Count
Print Specifications included: Contact list
Filename: MAILLIST.DTF
PERSONAL ACCOUNTANT
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The Personal Accountant is a database which allows you to track your
checking, credit card and savings account activity. By adding in
checks, withdrawals, charges and deposits, you will be able to maintain
accurate balances and a history of all money transfers.
In addition, you can enter all checks and then print them on pre-printed
checks. Then, analyze your accounts with pre-designed reports. The
English equivalent of the numeric dollar amount is automatically
calculated and does not need to be entered manually.
Reports included: All Account balances, Checkbook balance, Checkbook
detail, Credit Card balance, Credit Card detail, Savings Account
balance, Savings Accounts detail.
Print Specifications included: Check Printing
Filename: PERSACCT.DTF
Q&A HANGMAN
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This template is an actual Q&A database which allows you to play
Hangman. It uses built-in features such as lookups, arithmetic
functions, string functions and line drawing to completely simulate the
game.
It was included for fun as well as to show you the power of the tools
which you have available within Q&A. You can use this template to learn
new tricks and methods to include in your own Q&A databases.
Filename: HANGMAN.DTF