INDEX

           1. SETUP OF YOUR PROGRAM
           2. NORMAL ACCOUNTING CYCLE
           3. DEPOSIT, JOURNAL & ACCOUNTS
              PAYABLE MENUS
           4. UTILITIES MENU
           5. CLOSE YEAR
           6. DATA FILES
           7. OTHER HELP FILES
           8. SHAREWARE CONCEPT

           1. SETUP OF YOUR PROGRAM

The Accounting 101 program (101.exe) will be
located in a subdirectory named Acct and the
data files will be located in a subdirectory
under the Acct subdirectory which is named
101. To run the program do as follows:

     cd\acct {gets into the acct subdirectory}
     101     {runs the program}
     cd\     {gets back to the root directory}

           2.NORMAL ACCOUNTING CYCLE

You may enter your monthly transactions during
the month as you like. The transaction files
will have an extension which identifies the
month to which they apply. (.jan, .feb, etc.)
Print your checks when you like. The program
will not prevent you from printing a check
twice. That is your responsibility. You may
recall transactions and amend them before
posting but not after.

After entering all of your transactions for
the month, and printing out the various
journals, you should select the End Of The
Month menu from the Main Menu.

Upon entering the End of the Month Menu, the
first thing you should do is to post your
transactions for that month. Until they are
posted, the transactions will not be reflected
in your accounts. Posting the transactions
enters them in  the current month columns in
you account.

After posting, I would suggest that you
reconcile your bank account to be certain that
your transaction entries agree with those of
the bank.

If you would like to have an activity
journal(all activity shown by account number)
and trial balance, they can be printed at this
time. You may skip these if you desire.

After reconciling the bank account, you should
print out your Income statement and your
Balance Sheet and, if they appear to be in
order, then close the month in order to
prepare for the following months transactions.

You may begin entering transactions for a
subsequent month prior to closing a particular
month, but do not post these transactions
before the previous month is closed.

3. DEPOSITS, JOURNAL & ACCOUNTS PAYABLE MENUS

Select these menu items when you are ready to
begin entering your transactions for the
month. You will be presented with another menu
from which you can enter your transactions,
print checks, print out a journal of your
transactions or inspect your transactions on
the screen.

When you display the Deposits or the Checks on
the screen, the debits or credits to your bank
accounts will be highlighted so that you can
easily pick them out. When displaying the
Deposits or Checks the totals of deposits or
checks can be shown by pressing the F2 key.

               4. UTILITIES MENU

Selecting this menu item will take you to the
Utilities Menu from which you may do such as
amend your chart of accounts and inspect your
transaction file for the year to date.

                 5. CLOSE YEAR

After the final month in your accounting year
is closed, you should close the year. This
will transfer the net amount of your Income
and Expense accounts for the year to your
equity account and zero all of the Income and
Expense accounts. You are then ready to begin
the next accounting year. Since this a
procedure that you do not want to do
inadvertantly, you are asked to confirm by
typing in "Yes" before the closure is
effected.

                 6. DATA FILES

As mentioned above, all of the data files are
kept in a subdirectory named 101 under the
Acct subdirectory. The Account file will be
named Acctfile.dat. The transaction files will
have an extension of jan through dec for each
of the months.  However, when you close a
month, the extensions will be renamed to 01,
02, 03, etc.

A history of your transactions will be
maintained for each year. The transaction file
for 1991 will be named Tran91.dat. The
transactions for a particular month are not
added to the transaction file until the month
is closed.

Your Deposit Code, Vendor Code, and Journal
Code data will be maintained in files named
Depcode.dat, Vendcode.dat, and JrnCode.dat.

You may list your data files by selecting the
Back Up Files procedure from the Utility Menu.
After the files are listed you may use the
Escape key to exit without backing up at that
time.

              7. OTHER HELP FILES

There are other help files which can be
called up from other parts of the program.

             8. SHAREWARE CONCEPT

This program is Copyrighted but distributed
under the Shareware concept. That is, you are
free to try out this program for as long as
you wish without charge. If you decide to use
it, you should send $25.00 to:

                Iddo L. Enochs
              403 Cherokee Drive
               Mc Comb, MS 39648

Also, you may make copies and distribute them
to friends and acquaintances for a nominal fee
to cover the cost of the disk and mailing
costs. You are requested to see that all files
are included with the disk.

Thanks for making the Shareware concept work.

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