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- 12.2 QUERY
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- 12.2.1 Balance
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- This screen displays the present balance in the account. It
- also provides the opportunity to change its value, if you
- and the bank disagree on the balance in the account. An
- alternative is to convince the bank to change their balance
- to agree with yours.
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- 12.2.2 Today's Balance
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- This feature is very handy if you are like me and issue
- checks in advance and then mail them as they come due. The
- balance displayed in this case will add in all checks that
- have been post dated, ie have dates greater than today's
- date, thereby telling the user exactly how much cash is
- available at that instant in time.
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- 12.2.3 Search
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- This function is perhaps the most useful one in the personal
- checking feature. It allows you to obtain and optionally
- print information for almost any or all checks and cash
- transactions. You can search for one check, a range of
- checks, cash withdrawls, check credit payments, deposits,
- and service charges for a given date range, or a range of
- checks defined by a starting and ending check number. When
- searching on a date range, you can specify a single payee to
- get all checks issued to that party.
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- All of the above transactions can be further delineated by
- tax deductible or not, or by a selected budget category.
- One extremely useful application is at tax time to print a
- report of all tax deductible checks and a report of all
- charitable contributions.
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- 12.2.4 Last
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- The last entry made into the database is displayed. This
- feature is very useful in determining where a user left off
- in recording transactions during the last PMIS session.
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- 12.2.5 Unposted
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- The unposted entries feature is used primarily for obtaining
- a current balance for comparison with a bank statement as
- described above. The user is asked if a printed report is
- needed. The report then is either printed or displayed on
- the screen. The total at the conclusion of the report is
- the sum of all unposted outstanding checks and cash
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- withdrawls less any deposits that have not been posted. The
- bank statement value at the conclusion of the report is the
- value of your account balance shown on the bank statement if
- all transactions on the bank statement have been posted. To
- use this feature effectively, the Post feature described
- below should be performed for all transactions on the bank
- statement.
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- 12.2.6 Post
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- Whenever a bank statement arrives, this feature is used to
- mark the transactions in the database as having been paid
- and canceled. Used in conjunction with the listing of
- unposted entries feature, it allows the user to quickly
- determine if the bank statement agrees with the balance in
- the program. The balance in the program added to the total
- figure in the unposted entries report should be equal to the
- bank statement balance. This is true because the unposted
- entries report sums all outstanding checks and cash
- withdrawls and subtracts all deposits yielding either a
- positive or negative number to be added to the balance in
- the account. The bank statement value displayed at the
- conclusion of the report provides the result of this
- calculation.
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- 12.2.7 Quit
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- Return to the Personal Checking Secondary Menu
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