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FILE: README
DATE: 26 JAN 1992
SOURCE: DISTRIBUTED WITH RUNCSS.EXE
(A Double Entry CR, PA, GN, and General Ledger System)
CONTACT: T Pilson
Common Sense Solutions
11426 Ortega Drive
St Louis MO 63138
(314) 741-7878
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RUNCSS is a collection of forty programs compiled with Clipper S87 and
originally written for a small church. You are invited to distribute
this software in its original form. Hundreds of hours of programming,
testing, and frustration have gone into making this product available.
If found to be useful, you are encouraged to register it!
There are several ADVANTAGES to registration. FIRST, the annoying
wait when loading will be eliminated. SECOND, you will gain access
to the configuration program - your name will appear on the screens
and printed reports. THIRD, your conscience will be somewhat relieved.
User License Fee $ 40.00
Source Code on Diskette 100.00
Please send your name, address and phone number along with a check
or money order payable to Common Sense Solutions, 11426 Ortega Dr,
St Louis MO 63138, (314) 741-7878. We will contact you by phone,
give you your serial number, and explain how to "unlock" your
accounting system.
Note: Special License Agreements are available for educational
institutions.
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FEATURES:
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1 - Transaction Dates Supported Past Turn Of Century
2 - Up To Six Hundred General Ledger Accounts
3 - Up To Sixty General Ledger Control Accounts
4 - Open Posting via General Journal
5 - Selective Posting Months
6 - Trial Balances For Any Month In The Fiscal Year At Any Time
7 - No Thirteenth Month - Transactions Remain In Journals Until Year Is Closed
8 - Expense Account Budgeting
9 - Automatic Detection/Recovery of Corrupted Indexes - Power Outage
10 - Automatic Detection of Crashed Posting Process - Power Outage
11 - Provision Made For Newcomers To Use Test/Training Data
GETTING STARTED
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RUNCSS is initially distributed with a sample General Ledger of 93
Accounts for your practice and experimentation. These files are
replicated in a set of test files which can be retrieved at any time
for training. Go first to the "SYSTEM UTILITIES" Menu.
[ SYSTEM MAINTENANCE ]
1 - Configure
2 - Use Test Data
3 - SetUp New System
4 - Restore your Data
5 - Registration
Option 1 - Configure
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All users, registered and unregistered MUST supply the Beginning and Ending
Yr and Month and Day of the fiscal year. Example:
Beginning for July 1, 1992 -- INPUT 19920701
Ending for June 30, 1993 -- INPUT 19930630
This is extremely important! These dates in these formats are used to
keep the journal posting to the proper months and year in the General
Ledger. If you mess up here, GL reporting will be hopelessly confused!
After registering your product, here you supply your company/organization
name, address, etc. in the appropriate places. Once registered, that
information will appear on your screens and printed reports.
Option 2 - Use Test Data
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Saves the current data to backup files and installs a fresh set of test data
for training. The test data has a General Ledger of 93 Accounts with $9480.78
in CASH, 4783.68 ready to spend and 4697.10 in restricted funds. The Journals
are empty.
Option 3 - SetUp New System
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Installs a new & empty General Ledger to setup your company or organization.
If you don't want to wait to register your product, go ahead and get your
General Ledger formulated and Journalize your transactions. Registration
will leave your data intact.
Option 4 - Restore your Data
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Restores the files saved when -Option 2- was selected.
Option 5 - Registration
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Something about the program and how to register it.
ABOUT YEAR END CLOSING
======================
A really "big" system transfers profit/loss to the INCOME/EXPENSE accounts,
resets balance forwards, clears balances, and a lot of other stuff. Even then,
INCOME/EXPENSE has to be redistributed.
AT THIS TIME RUNCSS MAKES NO PROVISION FOR YEARLY CLOSING. You will have to
reformulate the General Ledger to begin a new year. However, if your
General Ledger remains stable from year to year, when you first set up your
Chart of Accounts, SAVE THE FILE GLEDGER.DBF TO A DISKETTE BEFORE ANY JOURNAL
POSTINGS ARE MADE. Next year, restore that file to the system ( you will need
to re-enter your Balance Forwards ).
FILENAMES
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Data is stored in dBASE file format as follows:
GLEDGER.DBF = The General Ledger
CR_JRNL.DBF = The Cash Receipts Journal
GN_JRNL.DBF = The General Journal
PA_JRNL.DBF = The Disbursement Journal
TRANDATA.DBF = Check #s, Payees, and Tranaction Descriptions
HISTORY.DBF = All Journal Posting for the Fiscal Year
SYS_CTRL.DBF = System Information
TSTDATA1 thru 7 = Test Data as in above
NEWDATA1 thru 7 = Empty Data as in above
BAKDATA1 thru 7 = Your Backup data while using test data
PRINTERS
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RUNCSS makes use of industry standard, IBM print codes as follows:
Decimal 10 Line Feed
Decimal 13 Carriage Return
Decimal 15 Start Condensed Print
Decimal 18 Start 10 Character per Inch
Decimal 27 69 Start Emphasized Printing
Decimal 27 70 End Emphasized Printing
The printer you use with RUNCSS must understand the above codes or
be capable of being set via a Dip Switch to IBM Mode.
A WORD ON SETTING UP THE CHART OF ACCOUNTS
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For the sake of discussion, the following accounts represent the assets of
a small church as they appear in the distributed data and test files of
RUNCSS:
Balance
Acct # Description ---------------------- Forward --- Balance
1100 *** CASH *** 9480.78 9480.78
1101 UNASSIGNED - CHECKING 4783.68 4783.68
1105 ASSIGNED RESERVE FUND 1700.00 1700.00
1110 ASSIGNED MEMORIAL FUND 2296.37 2296.37
1115 ASSIGNED HEF FUND 127.43 127.43
1120 ASSIGNED CHOIR ROBE FUND 73.80 73.80
1125 ASSIGNED MATTHEW 25 FUND 65.00 65.00
1130 ASSIGNED ANGEL TREE FUND 14.00 14.00
1135 ASSIGNED PEACE OFFERING FUND 13.50 13.50
1140 ASSIGNED AM BIBLE SOCIETY FUND 89.25 89.25
1145 ASSIGNED REHAB FUND 190.75 190.75
1150 ASSIGNED JOY OFFERING FUND 107.00 107.00
1155 ASSIGNED DEACON HEF FUND 20.00 20.00
1200 *** ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE *** 0.00 0.00
1205 A/R MEAAA ON UTILITIES 0.00 0.00
1210 A/R OTHERS 0.00 0.00
3100 ** YR BEGINNING FUND BAL'S ** -9480.78 -9480.78
3110 YR BEGINNING UNRESTRICTED FNDS -4783.68 -4783.68
3120 YR BEGINNING RESTRICTED FNDS -4697.10 -4697.10
FIRST, SOME RULES . . .
I. The first (1st) digit of the Acct # denotes the account type. The only
valid account types are:
1 = Asset
2 = Liability
3 = Fund Balance
4 = Income (Revenue)
5 = Expense
6 = Transfer
II. Type 1 (Asset), 5 (Expense), and 6 (Transfer) accounts maintain
positive balances. Type 2 (Liability), 3 (Fund Balance) and
5 (Expense) accounts maintain negative balances. The computer
signs the balances automatically during the posting process.
III. TO DECREASE AN ACCOUNT, DEBIT IT; TO INCREASE AN ACCOUNT, CREDIT;
EXCEPT FOR ASSETS WHICH ARE INCREASED BY DEBITING.
IV. DEBITS ON THE LEFT; CREDITS ON THE RIGHT !
Note that certain accounts stand out from the rest because their
descriptions are prefixed and suffixed with *'s. These are CONTROL ACCOUNTS.
Please note that the last two digits of Control Account numbers end with
zero zero (00). These special accounts are normally set up to transfer
the totals of account number groups to the Financial and Profit/Loss
(Income/Expense) Statements. In the test data, Account Number,
"1100 - *** CASH ***" maintains the total of the balances of the 1100
series of accounts. Make certain that when you set your General Ledger
that you (1) have a control account associated with every ledger item you
establish, (2) that the last two digits of each control account number are
zero zero (00), and (3) that the first character of the Control Account
Description is always an "*".
In the above example, fund balance accounts were set to offset assets
(just to get things started ...). Restricted (assigned) funds are being
handled as individual checking accounts (even though there's only one
checking account). The program will not allow journalization to a
control account, so the balance of the one checking account is reflected
in the balance of the "1100 - *** CASH ***" control account.
NOTE: The point could be made that these small fund accounts
should be reclassified as Liabilities... remember that
the bookkeeping at many churches is most likely being
done by a volunteer. Opt to keep it simple!
WARNING
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IF YOU ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH DOUBLE ENTRY ACCOUNTING YOU ARE GOING TO
NEED HELP FROM SOMEONE WHO IS!
If you are familiar with double entry accounting, everything else should
be self explanatory. Just follow the instructions on screen. Learn to
use RUNCSS first using the test data provided. Once you feel comfortable
journalizing, then formulate your own General Ledger.
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Common Sense Solutions has larger versions of this program available with
ten digit account numbers, check writing, fund accounting, and investment
pooling under network and multiuser operating systems. We also deal in
proprietary school systems and in manufacturing inventory/process control.
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LICENSE
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RUNCSS has never been or ever will be released to the Public Domain.
IT IS NOT FOR FREE! Non-registered users are granted a 30 day license to
determine whether or not the program meets their needs. Use of RUNCSS
beyond the 30 day trial period is a violation of this License Agreement.
DISCLAIMER
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RUNCSS is provided as is. Common Sense Solutions makes no warranty of any
kind, expressed or implied, including without limitation, any warranties
of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. Common Sense
Solutions shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect
or consequential arising from a failure of this program to operate in the
manner desired by the user.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL Common Sense Solutions BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST SAVINGS, OR LOST DATA ARISING
FROM YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PROGRAM OR FOR ANY OTHER CLAIM BY
ANY OTHER PARTY.
COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK, AND SERVICE MARK NOTICES
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CLIPPER is a trademark of the Nantucket Corporation
dBASE is a registered trademark of Borland International
IBM, PC-DOS and AT are registered trademarks of International Business Machines
RUNCSS is a trademark of Common Sense Solutions