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- ║ PERSONAL FINANCE MANAGER ║
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- ║ John A. Mac Evoy ║
- ║ 18145 Kitchen House Court ║
- ║ Germantown, Md. 20874 ║
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- ║ copyright july, 1983 ║
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- ███ If you find this program useful, please take $50 and ███
- ███ treat your husband, wife, mistress or lover to din- ███
- ███ ner because he/she is probably sick of you playing ███
- ███ with this computer all the time. ███
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- FILES REQUIRED- Copy the following files to run the FINANCES.EXE program:
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- 1. FINANCES.EXE The compiled BASIC program
- 2. FINANCES.DOC (Optional) This documentation file
- 3. CHECKING.DAT File for checks and cash purchases
- 4. INVEST .DAT File for savings accounts and investments
- 5. PURGRP .DAT File for categorizing purchases
- 6. INVCAT .DAT File for listing names of investments
- 7. FIN-EXE .BAT (Optional) Batch file for running program on an
- electronic disk (E-disk)
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- ******* NOTE: The Finances Program WILL NOT RUN without the *******
- ******* data in the four "*.DAT" files. They must be *******
- ******* copied with the main program!! *******
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- PROGRAM FUNCTION
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- The Personal Finance Manager keeps records of all purchases by Purchase
- Groups (ie, car payment, computer stuff, etc) and all investments by In-
- vestment Categories (ie, savings, money market, stocks, etc.). The var-
- ious Groups and Categories are defined by the user, and each Group and
- Category can be summarized or printed on the screen in detail if desired.
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- EQUIPMENT NEEDED
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- 1. The program will only run on an IBM PC/XT with at least 128K of
- memory,
- 2. DOS 2.0 (It hasn't been tried on DOS 1.1),
- 3. One disk drive,
- 4. For best results, speed, low drive cycles, use an electronic
- drive. The sort programs were written for an E-drive and do an
- awful lot of cycling on a mechanical drive.
- 5. If you use an E-drive, you should have 192K RAM
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- RUNNING THE PROGRAM
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- 1. Boot up with DOS, ********************************
- 2. Set the system clock, ** Ignore steps 3 & 4 if you **
- ** don't use an E-drive **
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- 3. Set up an electronic drive with enough space for all the data files
- plus the biggest file again (for sorting). Don't go above 78K on a
- 192K machine,
- 4. Use the FIN-EXE.BAT file to load the data into the "C:" drive and
- make "C:" the default drive. For single drive systems, change the
- Batch file to load the "B:" drive and make "B:" the default drive.
- 5. If you didn't use the batch file type FINANCES.EXE after the DOS
- prompt (A>),
- 6. The program will ask for "APPROPRIATE DATA" (ie, password). Enter
- "COST PLUS". You get three tries to get it right or the program
- crashes.
- 7. The Main Menu lists the functions provided by the program,
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- OPERATING THE PROGRAM
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- 1. Set up your own password using the "UTILITIES" function. Passwords
- must have 9 characters, including blanks,
- 2. While in the Utilities program put your own name on the screens
- with the New Owner's Name function. Your name will not appear on
- the screens until after you "sign on" with your password (ie, the
- next time you run the program),
- 3. Purchases may be entered, classified, and analyzed by Groups such
- as food, mortgage, insurance, etc. These Groups are established in
- the Utilities program. The same is true for the Investment Cate-
- gories such as savings accounts, money markets, etc.,
- 4. Purchases (both cash and check) are entered using the Checking
- Account Program. Cash purchases have no effect on the checking
- account balance,
- 5. The Checking Account Balance program will display an incorrect date
- until you balance the account the first time,
- 6. A general note on data entry: Each field requires a carriage re-
- turn <CR> for data entry. The date as MM/DD/YY consists of three
- separate fields. You can skip most (but not all) fields by using
- <CR> <CR>. There's always an escape before any transaction is
- written to disk, but you may have to enter some dummy data to get
- to it and cancel the transaction.
- 7. The program takes care of adding and subtracting dollar amounts.
- There is no need to enter negative quantities.
- 8. In the Investment program a Purchase will show as a positive
- amount in the account balance but as a negative amount in the
- profit and loss balance. Likewise a Sale subtracts from the bal-
- ance, but adds a positive amount to the profit and loss summary.
- 9. If you get your transactions out of order, run the sort programs
- in the Utilities program. You really should use an E-drive for
- this. It's not designed for floppies.
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- CAVEATS
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- 1. The Tax Deduction List program does not work yet,
- 2. Most fields are protected so that you can't mess up the screen,
- but the dollar amount fields will let you try to enter crazy things
- to the point of excess. It won't accept them though.
- 3. Each investment or check record is 46 bytes long, so you can fit a
- heck of a lot on each disk, but once a disk is full, start a new
- one.
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- STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS --J. Mac Evoy 7-27-83
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