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- Reports Instructions
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- The Reports program produces five separate reports that will
- assist you in managing your bank account. You may pull down the
- menu and select one of the following reports.
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- Reconciliation Report - This report is used to reconcile
- you bank account. If you have never done this before,
- here's how it works:
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- The idea is to provide a means for you to determine if
- the bank balance you think you have actually agrees with
- what the bank says you have. You reconcile your account
- at the time you receive your monthly bank statement.
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- To reconcile you account, enter the Checkbook program,
- and using your bank statement, locate each transaction
- listed. You may use the proportional gadget or the Up
- and Down Arrows to scroll up and down, or you can use
- the Find function. Once a transaction has been located,
- compare the amount on the statement with the amount you
- had entered in the journal. If the amounts agree,
- select the Set Recon gadget in order to turn on the
- reconciliation flag. By setting this flag you are
- indicating that the transaction has cleared the bank and
- that your amounts agree. If the amounts do not agree,
- further research will be required.
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- After setting the reconciliation flag for all the
- cleared transactions, return to the Reports program and
- select the reconciliation option. At this time you will
- be ask to enter the statement date and ending balance.
- The ending balance is normally found at the bottom right
- hand corner of the statement.
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- After doing this the program will present all
- transactions that have not cleared the bank, or in other
- words, all transactions for which the reconciliation
- flag is not set. Next, the program will present
- balancing information which includes the balance from
- the statement, deposits not processed by the bank, and
- checks or withdrawals not yet processed by the bank.
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- Next, the following computation is made: the deposits
- not credited are added to the bank statement balance and
- checks outstanding are subtracted from the result. If
- the result of the computation is equal to your balance,
- your account is in balance. If not, either you or your
- bank has made an error. Since banks seldom made errors,
- chances are you made the error. The most common cause
- of errors is that the reconciliation flag is set when in
- fact the amounts do not agree.
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- Expense Summary Report - This report presents the
- budgeted amount, total expenditures, and total
- expenditures as a percentage of the budgeted amount for
- each expense category.
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- Expense Detail Report - This reports presents individual
- check, withdrawal, and service charge transactions
- grouped by expense category. Overall and expense
- category totals are provided.
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- Deposit Summary Report - This report presents the
- budgeted amount, total deposits, and total deposits as a
- percentage of the budgeted amount for each expense
- category.
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- Deposit Detail Report - This report presents individual
- deposit transactions grouped by expense category.
- Overall and expense category totals are provided.
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- All reports provide the option for sending the output to
- the printer. Further, all reports, with the exception
- of the Reconciliation report, require that a date range
- be entered.
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