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Reproduction or copying without express permission of It's Your Money, Inc. is prohibited.ڇ }V [ PAӨ procedure (you can delete them). Otherwise, the installation procedure is noninvasive, copying the appropriate files from floppy diskette to your hard drive in the directory you specify, at a total cost of 725 kilobytes of space. Empty data files sets take another 80K for each company to be handled. XThis is no ordinary Windows program. While Windows ah  veterans will be unimpressed, the fact that you can use to move from field to field within a dialog box, besides the standard will make newcomers to the environment happy. This is made possible in Bookkeeping By ah  Design by the elimination of the familiar clickor ah Ԫactivated "OK" button. While key combinations will do the trick, the best method for committing choices to file is to use a mouse to choose buttons marked "Save" and "Exit" in a two step procedure invoked when you are finished working in a box. Yes, we said you pretty much have to use a mouse with Bookkeeping By Design. If you're one of the few ah  Windows users operating without the benefit of such a rodent, ah  you've got a decision to make. XOther elements of the environment are nonstandard, as well. For example there are separate "Print" and "System" menus from which many (but not all) parameters for operation are specified. You change files and directories from two side by side boxes instead of from a single list, if you use a standard twobutton mouse, at least one action requires keyboard input !?! , and the context sensitive help system is invoked by pressing , but is in no way compliant with the new hypertextlike system encouraged by Microsoft for Windows 3.0 products. ah  XAs an accounting system, Bookkeeping By Design earns some ah  high scores, others not so. This system is truly integrated, requiring no set up of individual modules, but supplies only Accounts Payable and Receivable, General Ledger, Payroll, and limited Budgeting capabilities. No Inventory module exists, an intolerable inadequacy for manufacturing and distribution operations, but if you are primarily a service provider, the tools included in the package should be satisfactory. There is no attempt made to familiarize users with accounting practices (although there's a short Windows ah  $88!88!$tutoria!l), and !general!ly, the !"tour" !section !of the !manual !is dif!ficult to !read !and !follow. !Book!keeping !By De!sign is ah  !present!ed in !an in% 40P#c2$"!%Ԯtuitive fashion that should alleviate most problems with its documentation; menus titled Maintain, Journals, Post, and Display join the Print and System mentioned above. Play around a little, check the command reference section of the user's guide for the really sticky questions, and you'll be OK in just a few hours. y!a L, WyjddPROFILEy" 1 ! 1 NAA(<<ddx$( 3t> XA  Product Name  3 [ PA  :=  Bookkeeping By Design $695 Accounting By Design 2140 Shattuck Avenue #501 Berkeley, CA 94704 (800)5489179NHIYou have the option of setting up a customized chart of accounts for each company introduced to Bookkeeping By ah  Design, or copying one already being used. The sample data ah  $%%9 !%$included with the product !%will serve quite well for !%many users' needs, so if you !%don't mind changing the !%A%entries for widgets, doodads, !%A%and the like, start there. !%A%Importing data from other !%A%programs is via delimited !%A%ASCII data files, as is ex!%A%porting. !%A%HIAccounting By Design !%A%offers forms for use with !%Bookkeeping By Design ae  !%Ԛthrough a third party, and !%annual updates to the pro!%gram's tax tables directly. In !%both cases, you're free to _%%strike out on your own; the forms are fairly standard fare, and there are provisions for entering new tax data manually. You will, however, have to get used to some operational idiosyncracies that fall somewhere between deviation from the norm and implementation of what the authors thought was appropriate in the absence of industry standards. When you enter account data for a new customer, you must assign a customer number manually, and since the list of those already in your database is sorted by customer number only, making a decision can be tricky. At other times, such as when entering invoice data, you can look up information by customer name or number, but there's no indication given on screen that this is possible, here or in the case of the other !lookup situations scattered through Bookkeeping By Design. ah  !If you like, sales journals will increment transaction numbers !automatically. !HIAdd a customizable set of nearly forty reports, and Book ah ԭ!keeping By Design is a solid performer. If you're service ah  !oriented, need little hand holding, and are enamored of !Windows but not insistent on strict adherence to its standards, ah  !Bookkeeping By Design is definitely worth a look. ah  ! !HLb ToolBook ă !HL\Asymetrix Corporationă ! !HIWith all the hoopla surrounding Windows, perhaps the ah  !single most focusedon application has been ToolBook. And ah  !with good reason! As the first product from a (not so) new !company organized by Microsoft Chairman William Gates's !childhood friend (and Microsoft cofounder) Paul Allen, and !with a codistribution deal that so far has seen a readonly !version of the program included with every copy of Windows, ah  !ToolBook merits attention. Now the question is: do you care?