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| InfoBank |
Analyze all the facts, and find knowledge of that which you
wish to know.
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This program will permit you to manage your
finances, such as bank accounts, mutual funds, investments, and
credit cards. You keep records of each transaction. It keeps
records of all types of information: phone numbers and addresses,
doctor visits, ideas, books read, and such. They can be found
quickly and easily, using cross keys to make it better. Prepare
taxes and budgets. Deal with foreign currency. Check utility
bills by calculating the bill based upon the rates as published
in the state tariffs. Very wonderful and powerful. The program
has been tested for many years. This was originally written in
1986, and used continuously since then. Originally written in
Dbman, and now in Borland Delphi.
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In addition to the usual accounting information, you can do
things like this:
Data files are password protected!
Check numbers are updated automatically,
useful for joint accounts. You can enter zero dollars for a
voided check.
Foreign banks, exchange rates, and date
formats (mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy). The data are stored, along
with the dollar equivalent. No need to enter a menu item every
time a transaction with a foreign bank is made, in order to get
the correct date format. You now have your financial history in
both local currency and equivalent dollars at the
time.
Regular payments in the future, and
anticipated future bank balances
Reconcile bank statements
Manage your stock portfolio. It keeps records
of all transactions, using both dollar values and number of
shares. Track your profits and losses. For foreign stocks, it
keeps records of the dollar values as well as the values in the
local currency. You can enter the current value at any time, and
this record will remain. This permits you to examine your fund
history.
Monthly budgets a. Expenses b. Income c.
Investments d. Cash flow e. Credit card payments f. Net credit
card actions (charges less credits and payments) g. Statistics
(averages, sums, and standard deviations) h. Different list for
each currency, based upon exchange rate at the time
Tax report files. It will produce an Adobe
Acrobat pdf file of a tax report that you can e-mail to your
accountant.
Automatically dial bank, or any phone number.
Dials your 16 digit credit card number!
Reminders of birthdays and due
dates
Car mileage for tax and expense
reporting
Fully year 2000 compliant and valid on
Windows 2000.
Multiple users. Several people can run this
program on the same computer, without each person's bank data
interfering with the other person's.
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Queries: Any type of query, using
standard query language (SQL). Examples: 1. Find the magazines
paid by credit card last March. 2. Search by bank, date, or
budget, which are indexed items. 3. Set filters, such as check
numbers 0 and tax deductible and paid_to_from = 'Science' 4.
Change values in the tables based upon conditions.
5. Get a list of annual expenses on charity.
6. Sample
queries are given in Help|Queries, for you to cut and paste into
the query box, and modify to your needs.
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Internet access: No need to rely upon
Bookmarks in your browser. Keep lists of URL's, organized in any
way you want. Select a URL, press a menu, and you will
immediately go to the site. Received via e-mail a URL that
wrapped? No problem. Enter the URL in the program, and it will
remove blanks and line feeds, and bring you to the site.
Phone dialing: Misc|Dial Phone dials
the phone. You are prompted to enter a number. This number is
stored in the registry. The next time you can redial without
entering the number. You can dial using numbers or letters. The
program will automatically add the outside line code if any is
defined.
If Call Wait is checked, then the cancel call
wait code (usually *70,) will be added. This code is also defined
in the phone table.
An access code may be added, if any is
defined. E.g., you may want to dial 10-ATT before each call. If
Access is checked, then the access code will be dialed, except
for your local area codes. To add local area codes to the
database, do this in Phone|Setup Phone. E.g., 800 and 888 would
normally be added to the local area codes database. Once you
check or uncheck Access, it is stored in the registry for next
time the program runs.
Elapsed time is displayed on the main form.
You can reset this at any time. You can have it automatically
reset every time you make a phone call by checking Misc|Phone
Reset Clock.
If the number is busy, it will wait a number
of seconds and retry for a number of times. You set the number of
seconds and number of retries in the phone table. This happens
only when Busy is checked, and not for dialing from the list of
banks. If Busy is not checked, you have the option of dialing a
code, such as a beeper number.
Clicking Dial Code will bring up a prompt box
for you to dial the code. Dialing banks acts as if the Busy
option is not checked. If Busy is not checked, then the modem
will automatically hang up after 2 minutes. This is long enough
to enter the codes. If Busy is checked, you must hang up the
modem prior to picking up the handset, in order to avoid hearing
screeching sounds. Phone| Hang Up. The menu items, Access, Busy,
etc. are stored into the registry. When you enter the program,
the values are the same as the values set before you left the
program the previous day.
Speed dial. The speed dial menu works as
follows. After you dialed a number, you can store it in one of 10
speed dial locations. Press Input, and you will be prompted for
the name. Press a speed dial number, and this number will appear
in an input box. You can accept this, or modify it. When you
press Okay, the number is in the speed dial. The name will be the
caption. The hint is the number. Press the speed dial menu, or
Alt + number (e.g., Alt 1) to speed dial number 1.
Enter the table ch_fi, the list of banks.
Choose a bank. You can dial the bank by pressing the proper menu
item. You then can enter your credit card number or other numbers
when prompted by pressing the proper menu item. In three minutes
the modem will automatically hang up. You may continue speaking,
of course. This is a time saver, automatically dialing all your
bank codes!
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