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PC-AR MANUAL
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
PC-AR is an accounts receivable and sales analysis program for
small and medium size businesses. The program runs on a IBM PC or
compatible computer with one disk drive and at least 128k memory.
PC-AR is a user supported program. Your are encouraged to
give copies to anyone who might use it. If you like the program and
find it useful, please contribute $35 to:
Jerry Medlin
310 S. Jefferson St.
Napa, Ca. 94559
Your contribution will entitle you to a copy of the latest
version of the program and a telephone number for limited telephone
assistance should you require it. You will also receive a program
which will allow you to customize some features of PC-AR. A complete
description of the customizing program is contained at the end of this
manual.
The system consist of two files.
PC-AR.COM - The compiled program written in Turbo Pascal.
PC-AR.DOC - This documentation in ASCII form.
The program makes liberal use of the PC's numeric key pad both
for numbers and commands. You can have the Num Lock on all the time.
When inputting information, the plus <+> key has the same
effect as the return or enter key. Numerical information is entered
"calculator style". The decimal point is placed automatically. The
minus <-> key enters a negative number. This makes using the numeric
key pad even easier.
To run the program, simply type "PC-AR". If you want to
specify a drive and path for your data just add the drive and path
description after the program name. i.e. type "PC-AR B:AR\" to use
the directory AR on the B drive for data files.
A menu is then displayed for operator selection:
Enter or Change Sales Codes
Enter or Change Customers
Enter or Change Charges & Payments
Print Mailing Labels
Print Charges & Payments Listing
Print Accounts Receivable Ledger
Print Statements
Print Sales Summary
Print Customer Activity Report
Apply Charges & Payments
Print Customer Listing
Save Data and End
PC-AR is fast because it works with data in random access
memory, but the capacity is limited by available memory. Available
memory is shared by the data. With more customers on file, fewer
charges and payments can be entered and vice-versa. PC-AR allows a
maximum of 2000 customers and 1500 charges and payments per accounting
period with 512k of memory. With 128k the capacity is reduced to
about 100 customers and 100 charges and payments.
Each time the menu is displayed, the number of charges and
payments that can be added with the available memory (limited to a
maximum of 1500) is printed at the bottom of the screen. If this
number is less than 1500, then the number of employees that can be
added can be obtained by dividing the number by 6.
Since a power interruption will result in loosing all the data
currently entered into the program, you should occasionally save your
data back to the disk. This is done by selecting End Processing from
the menu. The current data will be saved to the disk then you will be
asked "Do you want to end ?". Just answer with an "N" and you may
resume processing.
THE PROCESSING CYCLE
Accounting is done on a monthly cycle. At the end of each
month all charges are added to the customer's balance and all payments
are deducted from the customer's balance and the new balances are used
as the starting balances for the next month.
Each time the program is run, all customer data is loaded into
memory. Also, any charges or payments entered since the last update
are loaded into memory. When all of the charges and payments for the
current month have been entered, you may begin printing reports.
Reports may be printed in any order and as often as desired. If you
discover an error in any of the reports you may correct the problem
and reprint the report. At any time you can stop processing by
choosing the End Processing selection from the menu.
The last step in processing is to apply the charges and
payments to customer balances. This is done by choosing the Apply
Charges & Payments selection on the menu. This selection does four
things:
1) Age the customer balances. All current due amounts become
30 day due, all 30 day balances become 60 day, etc.
2) Deduct the payments from the customers balance due starting
with 90 day and proceeding to current due.
3) Calculate the late charge and add it to the current amount
due.
4) Add the charges to the current balance.
You may then proceed with the next accounting period. (month)
ENTER OR CHANGE SALES CODES
In addition to being an accounts receivable program, PC-AR is
also a sales analysis program. Each charge or payment is posted to a
sales code. The Enter or Change Sales Descriptions selection allows
you to enter up to 80 of these sales codes and their corresponding
descriptions. The sales description is also printed on the various
reports including the statement.
Just enter a three character sales code (alphabetic or numeric
characters are allowed) and up to 21 characters for a description.
The directions are printed at the bottom of the screen. You may add
new sales descriptions and codes at any time, but don't change or
delete sales codes once charges or payments have been entered. Wait
until the charges and payments have been applied to customer accounts
and you are ready to start a new accounting period before deleting or
changing sales codes.
At least one of the sales codes and its corresponding
description should be for payments on account. Payments received from
customers should then be posted to that code as a negative amount
using the minus <-> key instead of the enter key.
ENTER OR CHANGE CUSTOMERS
Customer information is entered and changed using this
selection from the menu. The following information is entered
for each customer:
Customer name - Two lines of 28 characters each are available.
Customer Code - A ten character code that will be used to sort
customers and also to post charges and payments to the
customers account. In most cases you will want to enter the
customers last name, followed by as much of the first name as
will fit in the remaining characters. For instance, if the
customers name is Jerry Medlin, the customer code would be
MEDLINJERR. Notice that all capital letters are used. If you
enter lower case letters they will be changed to upper case
automatically. Also, notice that no spaces are included. The
program will prevent you from entering a previously used
customer code.
Street Address - Up to 25 characters for the street address.
City & State - Up to 25 characters for the city and state.
Zip Code - Up to 10 characters are available for the zip
code. Five characters for the regular zip code, plus a dash
and four more characters if you use the extended zip code.
Telephone - Up to 12 characters for the telephone number and
assorted dashes.
Late Charge % - Enter the desired late charge for this
customer as a percentage. If you are on a monthly cycle and
you wish to charge an 18% annual rate for balances overdue you
would enter 1.5 (18 divided by 12 months.). If you don't want
to charge late fees then press return to enter a zero.
Auto Bill Amount - Dollar amounts entered here may be posted
to a customers account