RECORD
KEEPER
FUNCT IO NS
Whe
n t he Rec
or
d Keepe r
Mai
nMenu appears ( Figure4
-1
). de
cid
e w
hat
subf
unc-
tio
n yo u wa nt to per for m, type th e
keywo
rd fo r t hat fu
nctio
n, and press i;ijiii;iti.
Then ref er to th eappro pria t e d ire
ct
i on s on t he fo
llo
wi ng pages
of
th is sect io n.
ENTER
Format
Toente r
inf
orm
ati on into the co mp
ute
r and onto th e Data D isk
ett
e. yo u mu st
t yp e th eappro priate d at a and th en pr ess t he 'fiiii;lt' key. Pressing the i;liilli;lfi key
tell s t he p rogra m toente r t he d ata i
nto
th e system .
All
in fo r
matio
n mu st beentered in t he pr op er ti me seq uence. That means
you
canno t enter da ta
for
Ma
rc h and then go back to ent er
data
for
January. Plan
you
rwor k sessio n eac h ti me
befo
re
you
begin .
1. Type t he keyword a nd press ';Ijiii -it'.
2.
After
th e message INSERT THE DAT A DI SK ET T E, p ress ' ·Ijiwli' to co n-
ti nue .
3. The Transact ion Typ es M enu (Figure 4-2) wi ll app ear o n th e scree n. You
n
ow
have to se
lec
t a fun
cti
on
fro
m this menu : CHECK.
AUTO
Dedu
cti
o n.
WITHDRAWAL
, Sa vi ngs. CASH Expen
ditu
re. DEPOSIT . Chec k. SAVINGS
Deposit . CREDIT Card. and
INCOME
.
T
20 Reco rd Keeper
Fi
gur
e 4-2 Transact ion Types M enu
Man
y
of
yo ur entries. regardless of w hat m enu yo u are using. may be tax-
d edu
ctibl
e
it
em s. You sho ul d co nside r y our
catego
ry/subca tego ry nam e selec-
t ion s toa
cco
m
mo
da te th ese entries ahea d o f time. The f
oll
owin
g paragraph s are
o
nly
asugges
tio
n.
Let's ass ume yo u a re a sa lesperson who can
de
d
uct
seve
ral a uto
mobile
expe nses
ove
r the yea r. If yo uma ke eig
ht
fuel purchases a week ,
five
of
th ose purch ases
mi ght be business rela ted . and th eother
thr
ee fo r p lea sure. You co uld esta blish
th e ca tego ry as A
uto
mo
bile
. You r su bc ategories fo r f ue l
cou
ld be set up as
FuelTO f
or
the
pur
ch ases th at are tax dedu ct ib le, and Fuel fo rno ndeduct iblepur-
chases. In ot her
wo
rd s, t he TO is yo ur f lag ind ic at ing a tax-dedu
ct
ibl
e expense.
Th is m
eth
od could be
app
li ed to all cate go ri es and subc ate go r ies w
ith
th e same
se t o f circ umsta nces.