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- B U D G E T T R A C K E R
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- by Barbara Schulak
-
- I've seen budget programs and so have you, probably. Some of them are
- written for Trump wannabees and some are written for those whose financial
- situation consists of an allowance and a big Friday night at the movies.
- BUDGET TRACKER is THE budget program for anyone with 80-columns, a
- reasonable number of incomes and outgoes, and a desire to keep track of
- finances without spending a couple of days poring over a manual.
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- This program is so straightforward that even though it has instructions
- built-in, you probably won't even need to read them. You can save and load
- each month's budget from the main menu. There's a sample file on the disk
- called "sample". Load it and you'll see what a typical budget looks like.
- It's set up like a spreadsheet, with three pages for the year -- four months
- to a page. To get from Jan-Feb-Mar-Apr (page 1) to May-Jun-Jul-Aug (page 2)
- just press 2. Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec is page 3.
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- Down the left side of the screen is where you'll have your categories,
- like RENT, GAS, CAR, etc. You can modify these to suit your own situation.
- Just select the line where you want a category to be and press C. You'll be
- asked for the name of the category.
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- You move the cursor with the CRSR keys and can change any "cell" by
- using the +, - and = keys. If the current cell is $0.00 then you press =
- and can enter the value. If there's already a value there and you want to
- add $20.00 to it, just press + (plus sign) and enter 20. If you want to
- subtract from a cell, just press - (minus sign) and enter the amount to be
- subtracted. See what I mean by straightforward?
-
- After you've entered all of your month's figures, you press ^ (the UP
- ARROW) and everything is calculated and your totals, by month and by
- category are displayed. You can print out your "spreadsheet" anytime you
- want. There's even a disk utility submenu in case you want to look at the
- directory, rename a file, scratch a file, etc.
-
- But all of this is in the program. The 80-column screen was made for
- programs like this and programs like this are made for users like you.
- Barbara Schulak's name is on it and that says a lot. Use it in good health
- -- and wealth.
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- FT
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