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Welcome to Money Maestro!
The Money Maestro home banking
system is intended to relieve you of
the troublesome details of financial
record keeping and to provide you with
the information you need to manage your
money well. This system is designed to
be used entirely without documentation
and you will easily learn to run it.
Simply follow the directions as they
appear on the screen. Most prompts
will be very clear, but if you get
stuck, type ? and you will usually get
further instructions. If you want to
stop what you are doing, type the ESC
key and MONEY MAESTRO will attempt to
gracefully back you out of
whatever situation you are in.
Remember, all of your answers
should be followed by pressing the
RETURN (or ENTER) key to let the
machine know you have stopped typing.
If you would like to run the system on
the sample data we have included, stop
the system (by typing END) and restart
it by typing MAESTRO PRACTICE rather
than just MAESTRO.
If all else fails, the manual
includes a practice run based on this
data as well as notes on some of the
more sophisticated uses of the system.
Basic input to the system consists
of all the financial transactions you
make. This would include all the
transactions normally recorded in your
checkbook (deposits, check written,
charges incurred, etc.), as well as
transactions made in cash or by charge
card. These are entered through menu
choice 1. You will want to record this
income and expense by category for
later reporting. We have included a
typical category list, but don't feel
constrained by it. If you don't use a
catgory - delete it. If you have
income or make payments that don't
fit - make a new category. Since you
may reference the categories by name,
the numbers are not too important.
When entering checks you will
also be asked for a PAYEE name. Here,
you may just enter the name of the
company or person you want to pay, or
from whom you are receiving money.
However, if you think you may later
wish to get histories of payments to
that payee, you will want to enter the
name on the payee list. This will also
save you the trouble of typing the
whole name every time. Add to or amend
the payee list through menu choice 10.
While paying bills or making de-
posits, you will also be asked to re-
cord a memorandum of the transaction.
This is just a space (25 letters
or numbers long) to help you remember
what you were paying for. Some people
use the invoice numbers of their bills,
some write things like "June phone
bill". This space is for your con-
venience, use it as you like. You may
also show payments and deposits that
have not directly affected your account
balance. These will be payments made
by MasterCard, Visa, or Cash.
Probably the best way to get to
know the system is to run it.
Don't worry about budgeting,
tax reporting, and stockpiles just yet.
You will get plenty of use from the
system without them.
Enter some payees!
Change a category!
Enter some transactions!