User Guide for Assets Manager
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Accounting Rules:
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This software enforces double entry accounting scheme

Rules:

		Increase	Decrease
Asset		Dr		Cr
Liability	Cr		Dr
Income		Cr		Dr
Expense		Dr		Cr

for example, you have 4 A/C

Bank (asset)
Credit Card (liability)
Salary (income)
Rent (expense)

if you received your salary 1000, you will enter
	Dr	Bank	1000
	Cr	Salary	1000

if you pay rent 500 with cash in bank, you will enter
	Cr	Bank	500
	Dr	Rent	500

if you pay rent with credit card
	Cr	Credit card	500
	Dr	Rent		500

when you clear you credit card payment
	Cr	Bank		500
	Dr	Credit card	500

now, your credit card is zero again!!


Note: as Liability and Income are of the "Credit side", their balance 
(so the initial balance is usually -ve)


Accounts Screen:
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- all accounts will be listed according in order specified in preference
- user can select the view the current balance or the end balance

Creating and Edit A/C information:
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- choose the New A/C option in the menu
- initial balance can be entered when creating new one (not edit)
  Note: as Liability and Income are of the "Credit side", their balance 
  (so the initial balance is usually -ve)
- balance is the current balance while OS amount is the amount not 
  yet posted

To show transactions:
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- for specific A/C, select it and press Show Trans button
- for all A/C, press Show Trans without selecting any A/C
- on the transaction screen, ! means a posted transaction and 
  a * means a repeat transaction

To enter new transactions:
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- press New Trans button in the Accounts screen or
  New button in the transactions screen
- select the from A/C and to A/C
  e.g if you received your salary 1000, you will enter
	A/C	Bank
	To A/C	Salary
	Dr	1000

- all auto repeat entry, choose repeat option


Preferences setting:
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- Accounts list can be listed in alphabetic order or Asset/Liability/
  Income/Expense order
- A/C porfolio manager, to be supported in the next release
- -ve Asset reminder, if on, asset A/C that overdrawn will have an OD
  indicator
- Reset IE balance, if on, all I/E ac balances will be resetted at
  each new month (transactions will be retained for analysis purpose
  unless you purge them)
- Lock enabled, if on, the Pilot "Private" feature is activated, the
  program is locked unless you release the lock with the standard
  Security application.

I/E Analysis:
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- choose I/E Analysis option, you can view different month statistics
  by clicking the month arrows

Help for Accounting Rules:
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- choose for Help option

Purge outdated transactions:
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- choose Purge option in the transaction screen and enter the purge
  date then all transactions (of ALL ACCOUNTS) before that day will 
  be purged

Manual reset I/E balances:
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- choose option in the summary screen and balances (current) of all I/E
  accounts will be reset to zero
