ERRORS
DURING
INPUT
10 Ge lling Sfa
rred
F
or
insta nce, if yo u use Cred it Card X fo r a
pur
ch ase. yo uw
ill
bee
nte
ring
it in th ecredit ca rd sect io n ofyour d ata fi les as a
cate
gory. Then wh en
yo u wa nt to pa ythe b
ill
, yo u wi ll beente ring th echeck in th eCHECK
En
tr
y
form
at
of
th e Rec
ord
Kee
per
mo
dule. The ca
tego
ry
of
TRA NSFER is
assigned when
yo
u ente r t he
check
wr
itt
en
to
th e credi t ca rd co
mpa
ny, so
the expe nse is recor ded and ca lc ulated o n
ly
o ne ti me . Wh en TRA N S
FE
R
is t he
catego
ry, Credi t Card Xsho uld be th e esta blished as t he sub-
category fo r you rreference.
4. Wh en
yo
uest
abli
sh a subc
atego
ry nam e, yo u canuse a co m ma
if
necessary.
S. You ca
nnot
have
more
than a
total
o f30 characte rs, i
ncl
udi ng spaces , in
th e cate
gor
y and subca te go ry names combi ned.
6.
DO
NOT
m ix i
nco
me and expense
budget
typ es u nder th esame catego ry
nam e. By d
oing
so, you
wil
l getan inaccu
rat
e anal ysis o f your i
nco
me and
expenses wh en yo u use th e
Budget
Ana ly ze r m
odul
e . For exa
mp
le, if you
own
prop
erty
w hi ch yo u
rent
, th ecategor y m ight beca
lle
d Propert y, and
t hesu bca te go ry m ight be Rent (w hic h wo u ld beanin
com
e b
udg
et
typ
e),
and ano t her subc ategory mig ht be Repairs (an expense bu dget type).
Wh
en
you
are ready fo r a b
udg
et ana lysis, and yo u requ est the category
o f Prop
erty
, t hese
two
su bc ate gories w ill com bi ne
for
the analy sis,
but
will not give you a true income versus expe
nses
situation. Another
examp le
wou
ld be a category
call
ed Investment s and th esu bca tego r ies o f
Bought and Sold . The
Bought
is
you
r expense, and th e Sold is
yo
ur
incom e. The
tw
ocom bined in an anal ysis
wo
uld n
ot
pr
odu
ce a
tru
epic-
t ure
of
t he ca tego ry.
7. To ente r a date, use th e 00/00/00 f
orm
at. However, if th ee
nt
ries have
si
ngle
d igits in t hem, it is not necessary
to
type
the leadingzeros. For
instance, Janua ry 1
,19
81
coul
dbee
ntere
d as 1/1 /81 .
8. To ent er a d
oll
ar fig ure th at has no cents i
nvo
lve
d, it is n
ot
nece ssa ry to
t
yp
e th etrailing zeros . For instance, $10.00 can beentered as 10., $5.00 as
5.. and
50
on.
9. To
typ
e the f
unct
io n yo u wa nt
to
per for m,
yo
uneed o
nly
type
the
first
let-
ter o r first fe w lette rs of the wo rd and then p
ress
pro
vid
ing th
ose
first let ters are unique
to
the li st
of
func t io ns. For insta nce, if
yo
uhave a
c
hoice
of
Edit o r Exit, ty p ing an " E" is not eno ug h fo r eit her one; yo u mu st
t
yp
e " ED" or " EX" depend ing on w hat
yo
uwan t
to
do.
W hen yo u areente ri ng
data
and ma ke ami st ake (o t her th an a spell ing erro r),
wh ich does n
ot
co nform to wh at t he syste m expects, an e
rror
resp on se w
ill
occ ur
aft
er you p
ress
• .
Ii,ii-Vi
. The indication of such an error is alow tone w ith a
message d isplayed at th e b
ottom
of
the screen (see Figure2-1). The mi stake is
erased and yo u w ill see th e curs o r back at th e
input
po
s
ition
. You ca n
dupli
cat e
theerror shown in Figure 2·' by typing E
ijii
ii@i
with your Record Keeper M enu
on t he sc reen (mak e sure th e vo
lum
eon the televi s ion setis
turn
ed up so you wi ll
hear th e sound o f th e low to ne).
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