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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Hours/Expenses/Miles program! This program is designed
primarily for sales professionals and consultants needing to keep track
of their expenses and billable hours.
WHAT IT DOES
HEM keeps track of expenses such as meals, parking, tolls, hotel, etc.
The expenses are gathered day by day and categorized according to the
client that the expense should be charged to.
Billable time is also tracked. Simply enter the hours worked and any
miscellaneous charges. HEM will automatically calculate the taxes
and total charge.
TO RUN
Simply enter the command:
E
from the DOS prompt. The Hours/Expense/Mileage program will start
automatically.
CONTENTS
The following files should be present:
NAME DESCRIPTION
============ ==================================
e.exe actual expense program
e.set tutorial slide-show set
e.hlp Online help file (do not modify)
friend.bat Makes copies of system for friends
prorun.exe tutorial slide-show program
e.doc this file
expense.hdr Expense database
expense.dt " "
billing.dt " "
billing.nx1 " "
expense.nx1 " "
expense.nx2 " "
billing.nx0 " "
expense.nx0 " "
ebackup.bat Backup batch program
TUTORIAL
The system comes with a short slide-show tutorial. The slide-show
will give you some hints on how to run the system effectively.
To run the tutorial, press ALT-S from any of the HEM prompts.
DATA EXPORT
The REPORTS menu contains an EXPORT command that will allow you to
send the information to DBASE or a spreadsheet. The information is
dumped out in COMMA-DELIMITED format in the following order:
EXPENSE OUTPUT
1) Expense type
2) date
3) amount
4) payment
5) chargeto
6) purpose
7) location
8) memo
9) "T" if paid, "F" otherwise
10) date if paid, otherwise blank
11) categories, i.e. "ABC"
MILEAGE OUTPUT
1) chargeto
2) date
3) starting odometer
4) ending odometer
5) number of miles
6) rate of charge per mile
7) total charge
8) chargeto
9) purpose
10) location
11) memo
12) "T" if paid, "F" otherwise
13) date if paid, otherwise blank
14) categories, i.e. "ABC"
BILLING OUTPUT
1) chargeto
2) when
3) number of hours to bill
4) billing rate
5) misc charges
6) tax charge
7) total charge
8) chargeto
9) purpose
10) location
11) memo
12) "T" if paid, "F" otherwise
13) date if paid, otherwise blank
14) categories, i.e. "ABC"
USER INTERFACE
Press the ESC key at all times to exit what you are doing. Press
the F1 key for on-line help at all times.
If you have a mouse available, setup the MOUSE in the SYSTEM SETUP
MENU.
The ENTER key will allow you to "enter" a menu or update an expense.
If the prompt ends with "...", press the F10 key to bring up a
popup menu or popup calendar.
BACKUPS
Make sure that you make regular backups of your data. When you quit
the program you will be asked if you wish to make a backup. Answer
'y' and the batch file EBACKUP.BAT will be run. This batch file
will copy the data files to drive A. You may modify the batch file
to suit your personal needs.
DISCLAIMER
This program is provided AS IS, with no warranty expressed or implied.
Contact Plus Corporation specifically disclaims any and all warranties,
including but not limited to, fitness for a particular purpose.
In no event, shall Contact Plus Corporation be liable for any loss of
profit or any other commercial damage, including but not limited to
special, incidental, consequential or other damages.
REGISTRATION
This program is being distributed as shareware - meaning that you may
try before you buy the system. If you don't have use for the system,
you can simply discard it with no risk. If you decide that this software
is useful, you must register. Registration entitles you to an update
disk and phone support. The price to register this program is only $39.
To register, send a check for $39 (US funds) to :
Contact Plus Corporation
PO Box 372577
Satellite Beach, FL 32937-0577
USA
(407) 779-4900 voice
(407) 779-3311 fax
(407) 779-4422 BBS 9600 baud 24 hours
Contact Plus Corporation also distributes the following programs. Many of
which have been reviewed in major publications such as InfoWorld,
Business Marketing, and national newspapers. Versions of all the
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