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- From: johnboyd@OCDIS01.OC.AFLC.AF.MIL (John Boyd;LAHDI;)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
- Subject: Spreadsheet/financial application
- Message-ID: <9208312003.AA17832@ocdis01.oc.aflc.af.mil>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:03:12 GMT
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- I havve been asked by a friend of mine to help put together a (possibly)
- spreadsheet/acctg application for some offices of a volunteer group that he
- works with.
-
- What it amounts to is that the original info could be input into a
- spreadsheet model easily enough; BUT he wants to hang onto that a screen
- display that 'looks like' a check, into which they would enter the
- necessary info to represent paying a check.
-
- Now, I know how much effort it would take to write this thing from scratch;
- so as an alternate, what I'm trying to do is to come up with a couple
- pieces of software that when working together, would give him what he
- wanted.
-
- At first I thought that it would be easy enough to get a product called
- 'Dave' to make the checkbook analogy and to handle the GUI, but I can't
- seem to find it anywhere.
-
- I have decided that once the spreadsheet portion was written, we'll compile
- it with Baler, to lock the formulas, etc, and it'll only do what it needs
- to do at the multiple user sites in order to produce the necessary output,
- that'll then be forwarded back to my friend @headquarters. That way they
- won't have to have, or even run a full-blown spreadsheet program. BUT, that
- doesn't give me the checkbook entry form analogy.
-
- The individual field offices really don't need a full-blown, or even
- mini-accounting package for this, and that's why I landed on the
- spreadsheet function in the first place.
-
- Also, I need to be able to 'get at' the data occasionally with either a
- database, or spreadsheet program, so going with something other than an
- accounting pkg, assures that the data will be in one of those two formats,
- instead of an accounting pkg's native (proprietary) format.
-
- Does anyone know of a pkg, or pkgs, either commercial or shareware that'll
- give us the functionality described?
-
- Thanx!!
-
-