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- Home Accountant Info
- The Windows Home Accountant program allows you to keep track of your household
- expenses, incomes, bank accounts, and credit cards. You define three types of objects to
- the Home Accountant: Accounts, Transactions, and Categories. Accounts represent
- either bank accounts, cash, or credit cards. Transactions define a movement of funds
- into or out of accounts: a transfer is a movement from one account to another; an
- expense is a payment made from an account; an income is a deposit into an account
- from an external source, such as a salary. Categories are a way of classifying
- transactions. There are two general types of categories: Expense and Income.
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- Expense and income transactions must define both an account and a category. Expense
- transactions name an account from which the expense is being paid, and the expense
- category. Income transactions define an account into which the deposit is made and an
- income category. Transfer transactions define two accounts: the 'from' account, where
- funds are withdrawn from; and the 'to' account, where funds are deposited into. An
- example of a Transfer transaction might be the payment of a credit card bill, where
- money is transferred from a bank account into a credit card account.
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- A handy feature of Home Accountant is the ability to memorize commonly-entered
- transactions and recall them at a later time. For example, monthly payment of the rent or
- mortgage could be a memorized transaction. You store a model for the transaction
- within the budget file. When you want to use the model as a live transaction, use the
- recall function to bring the model to the screen for entry as a real transaction. The
- model transaction can contain all transaction detail with the exception of date and time,
- which are automatically updated with the current date and time when the transaction is
- recalled.
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- Three different reports can be generated by Home Accountant: an Account Status
- report, a Transaction report, and a Trends Report. Two types of charts can also be
- created. All reports can be viewed on the screen or sent to your printer via the Print
- option.
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- Simply execute the HOMEACCT.EXE program under Windows 3.1. Make sure that all files,
- including the three DLLs and the HLP file, are located in the same directory. Once
- you enter Home Accountant, pull up the Introduction under the Help pull-down menu and
- read the help screens.
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- Registration for Home Accountant for Windows is $15, and it entitles
- you to unlimited use of the product, a hardcopy user's guide, free upgrades, and technical
- support from the program author. Register through CompuServe Shareware
- Registration service.
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