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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 1-Nov-1995
-
- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: EASI-PLAN Lite :Financial Planner for Mid-size Business
- Version: 3.30
- Version Date: 1-Nov-1995
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
-
- Product Description: EASI-PLAN Lite: Business Financial Planner.
- Enables new & mid-size businesses to prepare
- complete 3-year financial projections for
- business plans, raising finance etc. Produces
- P&Ls, cashflows, balance sheets & ratios by
- month for 1st year & quarterly for 2nd and
- 3rd years. Incorporates facilities for
- graphing key results; undertaking "what-if"
- analyses; preparing "first-cut" 3-year
- projections; etc. etc.
- Reason for version: New features and facilities
-
- Category: Business; Business finances
- Keywords: Business plan financ project forecast
- Required Packages: EASIL330
- This Package: EASIL330
- Registration Fee: 75.00 (Pounds sterling)
-
- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 8086/8088)
- Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.3
- Standard RAM: 640K
- Hard Drive Space: 850K
- Required:
- Hard drive
- Keyboard
-
- Orders:
- Address: Invest-Tech Limited
- 27 Ardmeen Park
- Blackrock
- County Dublin
- IRELAND
- Phone: +353-1-2834083
- FAX: +353-1-2782391
- CompuServe: 100606,2665
- Internet: brianf@iol.ie
-
- Support:
- Address: Invest-Tech Limited
- 27 Ardmeen Park
- Blackrock
- County Dublin
- IRELAND
- Phone: +353-1-2834083
- FAX: +353-1-2782391
- CompuServe: 100606,2665
- Internet: brianf@iol.ie
-
-
- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
-
- EASI-PLAN Lite is a powerful easy-to-use software package which
- enables new and mid-size businesses to prepare fully-integrated and
- comprehensive 3-year financial projections for business plans & budgets,
- raising finance, strategic planning, forecasting, appraisals etc.
-
- It can also be used by professional advisers, consultants, training
- organisations and financial institutions. EASI-PLAN Lite is aimed
- at businesses, with annual sales in the range 250k to 2 million
- pounds/dollars, engaged in manufacturing, distribution or services. Its
- reports are pre-formatted to suit either sole traders or limited
- companies.
-
- Based on a user's forecasts and assumptions, EASI-PLAN compiles
- integrated financial projections (P&Ls, cashflows, balance sheets
- & ratios) for one year ahead on a monthly basis and, in less
- detail, for a further two years on a quarterly basis. It produces
- numerous management and financial reports together with graphs
- for many key variables which can be displayed on the screen or
- printed. It also produces reports detailing all the underlying
- assumptions.
-
- EASI-PLAN incorporates facilities for graphing key results; for
- undertaking 'what-if' analysis; for preparing 'first-cut'
- three-year projections; generating a textual summary report; doing
- selective or global sensitivity analysis; drilling down to underlying
- assumptions; exporting the model to a spreadsheet; rolling forward
- projections a month at a time.
-
- EASI-PLAN is very suitable for users with limited or no prior
- experience of computers or financial planning as well as for more
- experienced users who do not wish to go to the very considerable
- trouble, or waste valuable time, developing their own planning
- system on a spreadsheet.
-
- Other versions, called EASI-PLAN Micro and Pro, for smaller and larger
- businesses respectively are also available. Their file names are
- EASIM*.ZIP and EASIP*.ZIP
-
- EASI-PLAN is very friendly and menu-driven with extensive "on-line"
- context-sensitive help.
-
- EASI-PLAN is an internationally useful product. The layout of its
- reports and accounts are based on UK conventions. Its currency
- symbol can be altered by a user.
-
- The supplied software is 'shareware'. In return for registering, a user
- receives the latest fully-operational version of EASI-PLAN with a 160+
- page A5 spiral-bound printed manual (incorporating extensive tutorial
- exercises etc.) and full support. Further details are contained in the
- text files README.TXT and REGISTER.TXT.
-
- To access a text file, you can use the EDIT utility supplied with DOS or
- the NOTEPAD accessory supplied with Windows.
-
-
- ===== Packing List =====================================
-
- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
-
- Filename Size Date Time CRC32
- READ_ME.1ST 171 1-Nov-1995 03:30a F9D97F00
- MASTER.ASS 16824 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 9FFF54CF
- EP.BAT 3247 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 84AC7612
- GO.BAT 7020 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 486E53C8
- READ_ME.BAT 437 1-Nov-1995 03:30a 2E5C7F19
- MSHERC.COM 6749 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 7113E8E8
- FILE_ID.DIZ 427 1-Nov-1995 03:30a 0EBCCA1F
- VENDOR.DOC 216 1-Nov-1995 03:30a 13796CEE
- EASI.EXE 277262 30-Oct-1995 03:30a F463A5DA
- MMB.EXE 10672 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 96DD9422
- SETDISP.EXE 14554 30-Oct-1995 03:30a C9CFF4AD
- PLAN.HLP 33866 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 3FD4992B
- EASIPLAN.ICO 766 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 85636F9E
- CHKLIST.MS 54 30-Oct-1995 11:22a 3BDA0E37
- PLAN.OVR 271216 30-Oct-1995 03:30a E66F153F
- MANUAL.TXT 108189 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 675A2C32
- README.TXT 34255 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 621B51CA
- REGISTER.TXT 9361 30-Oct-1995 03:30a 102B322B
- VENDOR.TXT 216 1-Nov-1995 03:30a 13796CEE
-
-
- ===== Installation =====================================
-
- The exact installation steps you should take will depend on how you
- received EASI-PLAN.
-
- Installing from Diskettes
- -------------------------
- To install from diskette(s), you need to perform the following steps.
-
- o Place the EASI-PLAN distribution diskette "Disk 1" in the
- appropriate diskette drive.
-
- o Follow the instructions presented by the installation program. The
- program will ask you for a destination sub-directory, and will copy
- the EASI-PLAN files to that sub-directory. If you are given the
- choice, call the directory EASIL3. If you received EASI-PLAN on two
- diskettes, you will need to insert Disk 2 in the diskette drive when
- asked to do so.
-
- Installing from a Hard disk
- ---------------------------
- If you downloaded EASI-PLAN via the Internet, from a BBS (or received it
- in the form of archive files from some other source), you will need to
- perform the following steps.
-
- o Extract the contents of the archive file(s) to a new sub-directory
- on your hard drive. The suggested name for this sub-directory is
- EASIL3.
- The procedure for doing this varies, depending on the format in which
- you received the package. In all likelihood, the fact that you are
- reading this text means that you already have the necessary tools and
- knowledge to perform this step. If not, you should be able to obtain
- directions for this from the same source from which you received the
- package.
-
- EASI-PLAN Lite needs 560k, or more, of 'free' conventional memory (not
- extended memory). This should not present any problem to the vast
- majority of users as it is well within the capacity of most PCs with 640k
- of RAM unless they have been specially configured etc.
-
- If a problem is encountered when loading EASI-PLAN, refer to the Section
- dealing with Securing More Memory in the README.TXT file.
-
-
- ====== Running EASI-PLAN =================================
-
- The following guidelines assume that you have already installed (i.e.
- copied, unzipped, unarchived, uncompressed etc.) the complete set of
- EASI-PLAN files onto a hard disk.
-
- a) Get into the sub-directory where you have installed
- all EASI-PLAN's files. For example, if the sub-directory
- EASIL3 was used, type "CD EASIL3" and press RETURN at the
- DOS prompt.
-
- b) Type "GO" to access an introductory menu system. If your
- PC uses a very old type of display, do not select this
- option choose c) or d) instead.
-
- *or*
-
- c) For guidance on the syntax for loading EASI-PLAN etc.
- type "EP".
-
- *or*
-
- d) Type "EP MASTER" to directly load EASI-PLAN with specimen
- assumptions contained in a file called MASTER.ASS.
-
- For more detailed information about EASI-PLAN, refer to the text file
- called README.TXT. To access EASI-PLAN's text files, you can use the EDIT
- utility supplied with DOS or the NOTEPAD accessory supplied with Windows.
-
-
-
- ===== Warranty =========================================
-
- LIMITED WARRANTY
-
- THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE PROVIDED FOR EVALUATION ONLY, ON AN "AS IS"
- BASIS. INVEST-TECH LIMITED DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THIS
- SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. NEITHER INVEST-TECH LIMITED NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN
- INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL
- BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING
- OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE, EVEN IF INVEST-TECH
- LIMITED HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS.
- THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
- PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.
-
-
- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
-
- Limited Use License
- -------------------
- EASI-PLAN (tm) is a "shareware" program. IT IS NOT "freeware", "public
- domain" software etc. You are granted a licence to use EASI-PLAN only
- under the terms and conditions specified in this Agreement.
-
- EASI-PLAN is owned at all times by Invest-Tech and is fully protected by
- copyright throughout the world.
-
- After a free initial 30-day trial period, every user who wishes to
- continue using EASI-PLAN must make a registration payment to the author,
- Invest-Tech. If you do not register, you must stop using EASI-PLAN after
- the trial period.
-
- Once registered, EASI-PLAN is licensed for use, without any time
- restriction, on one computer or at one network node by the registered
- user. In return for registering, you will also receive a copy of the
- latest fully-operational version of EASI-PLAN with its printed manual. In
- addition, you gain access to support by mail, phone, fax or e-mail for
- three calendar months following confirmation of registration by
- Invest-Tech. After this period, the provision of support will be at
- Invest-Tech's discretion. Unregistered copies of EASI-PLAN are
- unsupported.
-
- EASI-PLAN has been supplied strictly on the understanding that the
- software and all its associated files and documentation will not be
- translated, repackaged, replicated, dismantled, reverse-engineered or
- modified in any way. It must not be copied, sold, transferred, lent,
- rented or leased to any user or third party except under the terms and
- conditions set out in the attached data record. If you copy EASI-PLAN for
- friends to try, you must include all the files contained in the EASIL*.*
- archive file.
-
- Distribution and/or use of EASI-PLAN signifies acceptance of these terms
- and conditions. Violators of the copyright terms of this agreement may be
- prosecuted.
-
- Details of volume discounts, site licences and bundling prices for
- EASI-PLAN can be obtained by contacting Invest-Tech.
-
- To register, refer to the Registration Form contained in the supplied
- file (REGISTER.TXT) and the U (for Upgrade) option in the Main Menu.
-
- Limited Distribution License
- ----------------------------
- The following may distribute EASI-PLAN, without further permission,
- provided they convey a complete and unaltered shareware version of
- EASI-PLAN and provided they claim no ownership of EASI-PLAN:
-
- * Individuals charging no fees
- * Members of ASP, STAR and other shareware associations
- * Other bona fide shareware distributors, BBSs, User Groups,
- Mail-Order Disk Vendors, CD-ROM Publishers, File-Distribution
- Networks etc.
-
- For other cases, or to distribute in modified form, you must consult the
- attached data record, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any
- distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in
- that data record is hereby authorised.
-
- Permission to distribute the EASI-PLAN package is not transferable,
- assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor wishing to distribute
- the package must independently satisfy the terms of this limited
- distribution license.
-
- Invest-Tech may revoke any permissions granted here, by notifying you in
- writing. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to
- Invest-Tech.
-
-
- ===== About VENDINFO Files =============================
-
- Each VENDINFO.DIZ file contains extensive information about a product.
- This "human-readable" section is followed by a compressed data record
- useable by automated tools. The data record allows BBSes and other
- distributors to automate package handling, and provides users with a
- wealth of product information. VENDINFO tools (free viewer for users,
- free or inexpensive processors for distributors, editors for authors)
- are available from many sources, including the originators of VENDINFO:
- Rams' Island Software Voice: 303-841-2848 CompuServe: 76244,324
- 7644 E. Lakecliff Way BBS: 303-841-6269 FidoNet: 1:104/333
- Parker, CO 80134-5904 USA FAX: 303-841-6269 RIME: 1235
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