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- OVERVIEW
-
- The Loan/Lease Log is used to track loan or lease payments for the
- initial purchase (or lease) of the vehicle. It can also be used to
- track payments for other types of loans. For example, if you took
- out a loan to pay for tires, a new engine, etc., this log will keep
- track of those loans.
-
- You can choose to include either the payments or the finance charge
- in the Cost Per Mile report.
-
- The last loan/lease record that was added will be displayed when
- you enter the Loan/Lease Log. Use the TOP, END, BACK and FORWARD
- menu selections to look at different records. TOP takes you to the
- first record and END takes you to the last (current) record.
-
-
- ADD
-
- Press the A key to add a new loan/lease record. Enter the date and
- any other information you want to keep track of. The Loan Amount is
- the beginning unpaid balance or amount financed. The Finance Charge
- is the amount charged for the loan by the lender. 12 "Term" lines
- are available for comments, loan description, etc.
-
-
- CHANGE
-
- Use this option to make corrections or to add items that were not
- included when the record was added.
-
-
- DELETE
-
- Use this to remove a record or to recall (activate) a record that
- was deleted. Deleted records and payments will not be included in
- reports. You should normally not need to use this option.
-
- EXAMPLE of when you might use the Delete option: you added a Loan/
- Lease record to CAR1 by mistake. It should have been added to
- another vehicle. You can delete the record from CAR1 so that it
- does not show on reports. Then later, when you are ready to add
- a new record to CAR1, instead of using the Add option, you can
- recall the record and Change it.
-
-
- INCLUDE
-
- The Include option lets you toggle (or switch) between including
- either the Payments or the Finance Charge in the Cost Per Mile re-
- port. As far as the Vehicle Record System is concerned, there are
- two types of loans. The first type is for the purchase of the ve-
- hicle and the second type is for everything else (tires, mainten-
- ance, accessories, etc.).
-
- The Cost Per Mile report breaks out all costs into categories, for
- example, Insurance, Tires, etc. When you enter costs for items that
- were purchased with the aid of a loan, you can tell the VRS where
- you want to put these costs. You do this by using a combination of
- Loan Codes and the Include option.
-
- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
- VEHICLE PURCHASE LOAN - If you paid cash for the vehicle then you
- will not need to create a loan record, however, you will want
- to set the Include toggle to include the purchase price in the
- Identification/Registration log. If you purchased the vehicle
- with a loan, you will still enter the purchase price in the
- Identification/Registration but you can wait until the loan is
- paid before including the price in the ID/REG category of the
- CPM report.
-
- ╔════════════╤════════════╗ ╔═════════════════════════╗
- ║ ID/REG │ LOAN/LEASE ║ ║ Costs are added into ║
- ╟────────────┴────────────╢ »» ║ these CPM Categories ║
- ║ By setting the Include ║ ╟────────────┬────────────╢
- ║ toggle to these values ║ ║ ID/REG │ LOAN/LEASE ║
- ╚═════════════════════════╝ ╚════════════╧════════════╝
- ┌────────────┬────────────┐ ┌────────────┬────────────┐
- │ EXCLUDE │ INCLUDE │ │ │ │
- A │ Purchase │ Payments │ »» │ │ Payments │
- │ Price │ │ │ │ │
- └────────────┴────────────┘ └────────────┴────────────┘
- OR
- ┌────────────┬────────────┐ ┌────────────┬────────────┐
- │ INCLUDE │ INCLUDE │ │ │ │
- B │ Purchase │ Finance │ »» │ Purchase │ Finance │
- │ Price │ Charge │ │ Price │ Charge │
- └────────────┴────────────┘ └────────────┴────────────┘
-
- Selecting the A combinations will give you a more accurate
- cost breakout per time period. When the loan has been paid
- off, you can switch to the B combination if you wish. The
- category totals will be different, but the total amount will
- be the same since payments should equal the purchase price
- plus the finance charge.
-
- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
-
- OTHER LOANS - Use the Loan Codes for items you log in the Maint/
- Access/Misc-Log, the Tires Log and the Insurance Log. Items
- purchased with a loan will still show in the totals for the
- individual logs reports.
-
- ╔════════════╤════════════╗ ╔═════════════════════════╗
- ║ M-T-I LOGS │ LOAN/LEASE ║ ║ Costs are added into ║
- ╟────────────┼────────────╢ »» ║ these CPM Categories ║
- ║ By setting │ and the ║ ╟────────────┬────────────╢
- ║Loan Code to│ Include to ║ ║ M-T-I LOGS │ LOAN/LEASE ║
- ╚════════════╧════════════╝ ╚════════════╧════════════╝
- ┌────────────┬────────────┐ ┌────────────┬────────────┐
- A │ L │ Payments │ »» │ │ Payments │
- └────────────┴────────────┘ └────────────┴────────────┘
- OR
- ┌────────────┬────────────┐ ┌────────────┬────────────┐
- B │ Y │ Finance │ »» │ cost of │ Finance │
- │ │ Charge │ │ the item │ Charge │
- └────────────┴────────────┘ └────────────┴────────────┘
-
- Example: You take out a loan for new tires and are logging
- the payments in the Loan/Lease Log. By using the A combin-
- ation, the CPM report will reflect the actual amount you
- paid during a period of time and not the total cost of the
- tires.
-
- When the loan has been paid off, you can change the L codes
- to Y and change the Loan/Lease to include the Finance Charge.
- Now when you run the CPM report, the amount borrowed will be
- added into the Tires category and the Finance Charge will be
- added into the Loan/Lease category.
-
-
- PAYMENTS
-
- Press the P key to record your loan/lease payments. Payments are
- indexed (sorted) by date. This means that your payments can be
- entered out of order and they will automatically be sequenced by
- the date. Additional help is available from the Payment menu.
-
-
- REPORTS
-
- Loan/Lease reports can be created for any period of time. You can
- run reports for just the displayed record or for all loan/lease re-
- cords (enter Y for Print ALL records).
-
- The default values assume that you want to list all payments and
- all Paid Codes for the displayed record. If you want a report that
- shows only Paid Code A, then blank out (enter a Space) all other
- codes. The FROM and TO dates default to the first and last payment
- dates.
-
- NOTE: Ctrl-End takes you to the last entry, Ctrl-Home takes you to
- the first.
-
- Printing to a file will place this report into a file named LON.TXT
- which will be created in the Program Directory (VRS90). This option
- will allow you to import this report into a word processing or a
- spreadsheet program if those programs support ASCII files.
-
- EXAMPLE: You want to create a report showing all payments for 1989.
- To do this, change FROM to 01/01/1989 & TO to 12/31/1989.
- Press Ctrl-End to go to the bottom of the screen, then
- press the Up Cursor and change Print ALL records to Y.
- Press the PgDn key.
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * END * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- ALL records to Y.
- Press the PgDn key