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- THE AUTOMOTIVE
- ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE - INVOICE SYSTEM
- version 1.21
- by Len Thom
- 20 Nov. 1984
-
- These are a set of programs designed to maintain an Accounts
- Receivable system for a company in the automotive repair
- business. It can be used by other small companies as well.
-
- These programs will print invoices using pre-printed 9 1/2" X 11"
- invoice forms available from Radio Shack.
-
- Version 1.21 is configured to run on an Osborne 1 computer
- working with an Okidata Microline 82A or 92 printer. It should
- run on other printers, except that the aged trial balance report
- (which is printed in condensed print on an Okidata) will probably
- require a printer capable of 132 columns.
-
- This set of programs is user supported software. If you like
- them and find them to be useful, please feel free to send $25.00
- to:
- Len Thom
- 12126 - 102 Street
- Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
- T5G 2G9
-
- RUNNING INSTRUCTIONS
-
- The set of programs require that they run on drive A: and that a
- formatted blank disk exist on drive B:. The second disk will
- contain data files. You can in effect maintain separate complete
- Acccounts Receivable systems as easily as changing the B: drive
- diskette.
-
- To get started, put a copy of CP/M on the program diskette, using
- the CP/M utility SYSGEN. Boot up the program diskette, and put a
- blank, formatted diskette in drive B:. At the A> prompt type
- MAINMENU and hit the return key.
-
- Once you have proceeded to the MASTER MENU page, you must
- initialize your company name (item 3 on this menu). This will
- create a file (on drive B:) containing this information for
- retrieval by the program. There is a password prompt, which the
- word 'LEN' must be entered to proceed. This is to prevent
- uneducated cretins, or anyone else who has not read this
- document, from changing this information. When ever a password
- prompt is required 'LEN' will allow continuance.
-
- Next, you may change the number seed to start the number series
- for invoicing. If you do not do this, the program will start at
- 1. This program automatically generates invoice numbers in
- sequence.
- è
- To proceed to set up your accounts choose menu item 1 on
- MAINMENU. This loads the Accounts Receivable program (AR121.COM
- for ver. 1.21) and prompts you to ask for an Accounts Receivable
- file name. Call it what you like, but 200 accounts per file is
- all it can handle without making this program extremely slow in
- execution. However, when it comes to maintaining posting
- records, all files on the same diskette will be kept in one file.
-
- Then begin by adding your accounts to the file(s) you have set
- up. For account numbers you may use numbers or letters or both.
- This is item 3 on the Accounts Receivable Menu. Mistakes or
- changes can be made using menu item 4.
-
- To begin printing invoices, line up the top of the first invoice
- with the paper retainer bar (on Okidata printers) and turn on the
- printer. Choose menu item 11 and after that all invoices should
- come out lined up.
-
- Both the Sale of Goods (menu item 7) and Workorder Printout (menu
- item 8) allow direct posting to the Accounts Receivable file.
- Also, direct posting can be done (menu item 5).
-
- If the customer is paying cash simply type "CASH" when prompted
- for account number, and the program will post the transaction to
- a separate file for cash postings.
-
- The Sale of Equipment (menu item 10) routine does not post, and
- is not to be used for cash sales.
-
- Printouts of Accounts Receivable data (MASTER MENU item 2)
- allow for the printout of reports such as account list, aged
- trial balance, customer address list and a report of
- cheques and credits posted.
-
- At the end of each month, you must close out your accounts and
- age them. To do this you must do the following things in this
- order.
-
- 1. Prepare monthly statements (PRINTOUT menu item 3) for each
- Accounts Receivable file, if you wish to send out statements to
- customers.
-
- 2. Prepare Aged Trial Balance report (PRINTOUT menu item 5) for
- each Accounts Receivable file.
-
- 3. Close out accounts (PRINTOUT menu item 4) for each Accounts
- Receivable file.
-
- 4. Close out posting report (MASTER MENU item 7).
-
- 5. Close out cash report (MASTER MENU item 8).
-
- Now you are ready to start off a new month, with your accounts
- aged and your posting and cash reports safely stuffed away in
- èhistory files.
-
- Only the Accounts Receivable/Invoicing Menu Items
- 7, 8, and 10 require preprinted invoice forms. Everything else
- looks good on cheaper plain paper. This program was written in
- MBASIC and compiled using an MBASIC compiler, so please write the
- words "Portions copyright Microsoft" on your diskette so that
- neither of us ends up violating a user agreement. As far as the
- author is concerned, he could care less how often you copy these
- programs or who you give it to.
-
- This set of programs is based on the Accounts Receivable system
- found on pages 47-66 of Charles D. Sternberg's book, Business
- Programs for the TRS-80 Model I/III. Sternberg's system uses up
- much less disk space than this system, but was written for a
- single drive system and does not take advantage of the smaller
- Random Access Files possible under the newer versions of
- Microsoft Basic. For those of you running MBASIC, I would
- reccommend this book as a valuable source of listed software that
- is written in a readable straightforward manner, with little need
- of change to get running on your machine.
-
- Final hint, when you go to close up shop at the end of the day,
- return to the MAIN MENU and type ^C and you'll be back in CP/M.