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: ************************************* * P O W E R B U D G E T 6 4 * ************************************* * * * By Jeffrey L. Jones * * * * FLEXIBLE HOME BUDGET PLANNING, * * MANAGEMENT, AND FILING FOR C-64 * * * * Presented to you by LOADSTAR * * * ************************************* * SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS * * DISK DRIVE - PRINTER FOR REPORT * ************************************* COPYRIGHT 1988 JEFFREY L. JONES -------------------------------------- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S -------------------------------------- OVERVIEW................................................PAGE 3 THE HELP SCREENS........................................PAGE 4 HOW TO ENTER DATA.......................................PAGE 5 MAKING PROJECTIONS......................................PAGE 6 PERCENTAGE CALCULATION..................................PAGE 7 SPREADSHEET CALCULATOR..................................PAGE 7 CURSOR DIRECTION........................................PAGE 8 SAVING YOUR BUDGET......................................PAGE 9 UPDATING YOUR BUDGET....................................PAGE 9 LOADING YOUR BUDGET.....................................PAGE 10 >CALC< HOW YOUR BUDGET IS ADDED UP......................PAGE 11 REPORTS.................................................PAGE 12 FIVE FUNCTION CALCULATOR................................PAGE 13 THE BANK................................................PAGE 13 MOUSE/JOYSTICK SPEED....................................PAGE 13 SENDING DISK COMMANDS...................................PAGE 14 FORMATTING DISKS........................................PAGE 14 DEFINING FIELDS.........................................PAGE 14 DISPLAY COLORS..........................................PAGE 15 LISTING THE DISK DIRECTORY..............................PAGE 15 ADVANCED DATA ENTRY & NEGATIVE NUMBERS..................PAGE 16 WITHDRAWALS FROM THE BANK...............................PAGE 16 MANAGING BANK MONEY.....................................PAGE 17 -2- -------------------------------------- O V E R V I E W -------------------------------------- POWER BUDGET is a powerful, commercial quality program. It is an expandable budgeting system that will make keeping track of your money much easier. POWER BUDGET is set up like a fixed spreadsheet, meaning you can move left, right, up or down using your cursor keys, mouse, or a joystick plugged into port #2. Items that you enter into this spreadsheet may be changed at will and the entire spreadsheet can be recalculated to update your figures. Using the REPORT feature, you can print out an extensive report for the entire year or just one month -- easy as pie. POWER BUDGET is also set up so that you can make easy projections with tentative budgets for an entire year. With POWER BUDGET you can use one of two onboard calculators to make correcting your data quick and easy. POWER BUDGET is menu driven and thus easy to use since there are no complicated commands to remember. To select any option on POWER BUDGET's main menu, move the cursor over to the desired option with the cursor keys, joystick or mouse. When the desired option is selected, press RETURN, CLICK or FIRE. -3- -------------------------------------- THE HELP SCREENS HELP!!! IN YOUR TIME OF NEED -------------------------------------- FOR HELP, WITH ANY OPTION ON THE MAIN MENU, move the cursor to the desired option but instead of pressing RETURN, press CTRL-H for help. Make sure that a POWER BUDGET disk in in the drive with all the help files copied. These help files are actually bits and snatches of this expanded manual always at hand for your convenience. -4- -------------------------------------- T H E E N T E R O P T I O N -------------------------------------- The ENTER option is already selected when POWER BUDGET boots up. When you select ENTER, the bottom of the screen becomes active. Here's what you will see: JANUARY ------------------------------------- Joystick or Cursor/ RETURN to Select EXPENDITURES 0.00 WAGES 0.00 SPOUSE'S WAGES 0.00 OTHER INCOME 0.00 DEPOSIT 0.00 TAX/DEBIT 0.00 RENT 0.00 ELECTRICITY 0.00 UP ARROW FOR MENU ------------------------------------- The categories continue through #54. As you can see, the current category will be highlighted. If you were to press CURSOR DOWN, the highlighted bar would move down to SPOUSE'S WAGES. If you press Cursor right or push the Joystick right, the month will change through to December. The numbers displayed adjacent to the category will reflect the current month's value. If you move down past category 7 then the bottom of the screen will scroll, showing the other categories. HOME will move the highlight bar to the uppermost category. Pressing HOME again will move you to the very first category in that month. SHIFT/CLR HOME will move you instantly to January and the first category. F1 and F7 page up and down. -5- -------------------------------------------- E N T E R I N G Y O U R B U D G E T -------------------------------------------- To enter an amount, press RETURN or fire. A window will clear. You will see a cursor which appears as a reversed greater than sign (>). You will be allowed to enter up to nine figure numbers. After entering the amount, press RETURN and the amount will be placed in POWER BUDGET. The window in the middle of the screen will constantly show you what percentage of your income is being displayed in the highlighted bar. Income is ALWAYS the sum of WAGES plus SPOUSE'S WAGES plus OTHER INCOME (or the first three categories if you have redefined them). The resolution of the percentage display is up to 1/100 percent. Thus any percentage less than one one-hundredth of a percent is represented as 0%. NOTE: (1% / 100 = .01%) If you want to change any amount already entered, just place the highlight bar at the desired location and hit RETURN. It's the same process as entering new information. The key to mastering POWER BUDGET is getting a true "feel" of "where" you are in the spreadsheet. Move around for a while and get acquainted. You can't hurt anything by moving around. ******** MAKING PROJECTIONS ********* In some budget categories, you'll already know that you'll be spending the same amount next month... or even until the end of the year. In this case you can tell POWER BUDGET to copy the same amounts through the end of the year. To do this just enter an ampersand (an ampersand looks like this: @ ) after the amount. For instance, you might know that your car payments will be $112.34 from January through the end of the year. Just enter this for January: 112.34@ The same amount will automatically be entered for the rest of the year. The ampersand MUST be placed at the end of the number in order for this feature to work. NOTE: THIS FEATURE ONLY WORKS FROM THE CURRENT MONTH. IF YOU MAKE A PROJECTION IN JULY, THE AMOUNTS WILL BE ENTERED FROM JULY TO THE END OF THE YEAR. JANUARY THROUGH JUNE WILL BE UNAFFECTED. You may also ask "what if" questions by entering a tentative amount per month in every desired category. You may then use the spreadsheet to calculate how much money you would have spent under a tentative budget with averaged monthly expenditures in selected categories. -6- ------------------------------------- PERCENTAGE CALCULATION ------------------------------------- Another auto function of POWER BUDGET is calculation of percentages. This is particularly handy when you're preparing a tentative budget. Instead of manually figuring percentages you can just assign a nominal percentage of your income to a category and POWER BUDGET will figure it for you. For instance, you might have already entered $1300.00 as wages for the month. In the "PERSONAL" category you can just type in 5% and five percent of your total income will be entered in "Personal". By typing in 5% you will have declared that you want to assign 5% of your total income to "PERSONAL" items. That comes out to $65.00. You may also set the calculated value throughout the year in that category by affixing an ampersand after the value. eg: 5%@ NOTE: IN ORDER FOR THESE FEATURES TO BE COMBINED, THE PERCENT SIGN MUST PRECEED THE AMPERSAND. EG. 5%@, NOT 5@% 5%@ automatically causes 5 percent of total income to be entered into a category and then projected through the end of the year from the current month. It should be understood that 5% of the TOTAL income will be figured. This means WAGES + SPOUSE'S WAGES + OTHER INCOME. All percentages will be calculated from the sum of these categories. NOTE: WHEN PROJECTING PERCENTAGES, THE AMOUNT PROJECTED WILL ALWAYS BE FROM THE BASE MONTH. IT IS NOT FIGURED FOR EACH MONTH'S INCOME. ---------------------------------------------- S P R E A D S H E E T C A L C U L A T O R ---------------------------------------------- Sometimes you may not want to exit the spreadsheet in order to make a calculation on POWER BUDGET's main calculator. The Spreadsheet section comes equipped with a four-function, concurrently operating calculator. Here's how it is used: Let's say you've entered 34.67 for entertainment and want to spend twice as much in that category, just enter "2*" and the amount in entertainment will double to 69.34 If you want to take twenty dollars away from that answer then just enter "20-" and 67.34 becomes 47.34 If you want to add five dollars to that amount then just enter 5+ and 47.34 becomes 52.34. If you want to divide 52.34 by 3 then enter 3/ and 52.34 becomes 17.45. NOTE: YOU MAY NOT RAISE A NUMBER TO A POWER FROM WITHIN THE SPREADSHEET. -7- The spreadsheet calculator is useful if money goes to an item more than once per month. There is only one thing to remember about this function: That is to place the operator AFTER the number if you enter +20 then POWER BUDGET's calculator will assume that you're entering the positive number of 20 and not that you want to add it to the number already there. If you enter /20, it will assume you're entering the word "/20" which has a numeric value of zero. SO BE CAREFUL: YOU CAN ZERO OUT AN EXISTING NUMBER BY PUTTING THE OPERATOR FIRST. TO ADD TWENTY YOU MUST USE 20+ TO DIVIDE BY TWENTY YOU MUST USE 20/ ETC. NOTE! AMAZINGLY IMPORTANT: IN ORDER FOR THE SPREADSHEET CALCULATOR TO BE ACCURATELY USED, THE DATA, AT LEAST FOR THE CURRENT MONTH, SHOULD BE LOADED!! ---------------------------------------------------- * * * C U R S O R D I R E C T I O N * * * ---------------------------------------------------- When entering large amounts of information, it may be desirable to have the cursor move down automatically after each entry. Or you may want it to move left, right or even up. To set this automatic function simply move the window to STASIS on the MAIN MENU and press RETURN. STASIS will change to LEFT. Press it again and it will change to RIGHT. Press it again and it will change to UP, and lastly DOWN. Now when you enter your wages, the cursor will automatically move down to the next label... or UP if that's the way you've set it. NOTE: WHEN THE CURSOR AUTOMATICALLY MOVES, YOU WON'T SEE THE PERCENTAGE OF YOUR LAST ENTRY UNLESS YOU MANUALLY MOVE BACK TO IT. -8- -------------------------------------------------- **** S A V I N G Y O U R F I G U R E S **** -------------------------------------------------- To save your figures to disk you MUST HAVE FIRST CREATED A FILE using the CREATE FILE option. The CREATE FILE option makes a RELative file on your disk that only POWER BUDGET can access. All you have to do is give the file a name. Don't worry about the CREATE FILE option accidentally formatting a disk. THIS OPTION WON'T ERASE ANY DATA ON A DISK... but you WILL need a data disk with at least 57 blocks free. The name that you choose can be the current year or anything you want. Just make the name something that you can remember. If you've forgotten the name of your budget file then just use POWER BUDGET'S "DIRECTORY" option to list the files on the disk. Select the DIRECTORY option and POWER BUDGET will list the directory of any disk. POWER BUDGET files will appear highlighted in the listing. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE! CREATE A FILE ONLY ONCE! ONCE YOU'VE CREATED A FILE, THERE IS NO NEED TO CREATE IT AGAIN. THE FILE CAN BE WRITTEN TO BY THE UPDATE OPTION. ANOTHER NOTE: RELATIVE FILES CAN'T BE ACCURATELY COPIED BY MOST PROGRAMS UNLESS THE ENTIRE DISK IS COPIED. SO IF YOU TRY TO COPY A POWER BUDGET DATA DISK, DON'T MAKE A BAM COPY! -------------------------------------- T H E U P D A T E F E A T U R E -------------------------------------- After a file has been created, you may write to it by using the UPDATE option. Just move the window to UPDATE and HIT RETURN. Don't be concerned if UPDATE sometimes doesn't ask for a filename. If it doesn't, it is because you've already entered the filename during a LOAD or when CREATing the file. AFter you've used the name once, POWER BUDGET remembers. UPDATE is easy to use. All you have to do is select it, enter your file name (if it asks for it), and insert your data disk. Everything else is automatic. Since the file is random access, you don't have to worry about file management. All you have to do is remember your file name. NOTE: TOTALS ARE NOT SAVED. ------------------------------------- A T T E N T I O N ! ! ------------------------------------- There is no need to LOAD old data in order to enter new data. If you want to add or change something in NOVEMBER, just RUN the program, move to November, enter the figures and use the UPDATE option. Now isn't that good news? -9- ------------------------------------- *******LOADING YOUR BUDGET******* ------------------------------------- To load what you have previously saved, select the LOAD option. POWER BUDGET will ask: "Through month (1-12)?" Enter a month between one and twelve. POWER BUDGET then asks: "Filename:>" Enter your file name and hit return. You'll see POWER BUDGET LOADing each monthly file. NOTE: IF THERE IS ONLY ONE POWER BUDGET FILE ON A DISK, YOU CAN LOAD IT WITH AN ASTERISK WHETHER OR NOT IT IS THE FIRST FILE IN THE DIRECTORY! ------------------------------------- A T T E N T I O N ! ! ------------------------------------- There is no need to LOAD old data in order to enter new data. If you want to add or change something in NOVEMBER, just RUN the program, move to November, enter the new figures and use the UPDATE option. Since your file is random access and not sequential, the data will be placed quickly and correctly. Haven't you heard this before? If not, then you missed page 9! -10- -11-