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Day Analysis Sales and Purchases A
list of all sales or purchases for each
day of the week.
Trading This shows all Sales.
Purchases and Expenses during this
period, and then produces a calculation
of your Gross and Net profit.
Balance Sheet A balance sheet for
your business.
VAT Report A VAT report can be
printed at any time though you only
need one when you are required to fill
in a VAT form each quarter.
That just about covers the cash
book operations of the program. As
you can no doubt see it is extremely
comprehensive and obviously far
easier to use than a number of books.
The number of different reports that
can be produced should definitely keep
your accountant quiet for quite some
time.
Bits and Pieces
I have covered the main sections of the
program above, however there are
quite a number of smaller but very
useful facilities available within the
program. I have already mentioned the
use of the HELP key and that it gives a
brief description of whatever you are
doing together with the page number
of where to find more information in
the manual. As well as the help key
many others have functions.
I will allow you to access the
programs disk functions. From within
this option you can Display the files on
the disk in the drive that are relevant to
the section of the program you are
using. You can print a full list of all the
files should you require. Free Space
will tell you just how much room is left
on your disk and you can format new
disks when the need arises.
F2 calls up the printer options.
Here you can set the size of the paper
that you are using, tell the printer to
move to a new page, check that the
printer is on-line and ready to use.
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Page Pause will set the program up in
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after each page, this will allow you to
use single sheet paper.
The Printer Yes/No option is quite
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program can be forced to produce all
printouts to the screen rather than to
the printer.
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Function Key F3 gives you access
to what is probably one of the most
useful facilities, that of the electronic
jotters.
Electronic jotters allow you to use
all or part of the screen as a form of
notepad. This means that you could
take telephone messages, notes etc.
and place them in a jotter, just as you
would do with a writing pad, The
contents of a jotter can be recalled at
anytime and reproduced on the
printer.
The jotter can also be used to
'capture' whatever is on the screen
when the F3 key is pressed. This means
that you can copy the screen from one
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program, : then using the paste function
you can then place this information
into another program. For example
you may take a record from the
database and then paste it into a wordprocessor
tile. Function key number 4
allows you to set the date, call up a
calculator, handy for quick calculations,
and use the printer as a typewriter,
ie. you can type a single line on
the keyboard and then send it to the
printer.
A diary is available on the F5 key.
This will display a calendar for the
current month on the screen. You can
then set up a diary page for any month
allowing you to set up appointments
for the month etc.
Should you ever require a copy of
the screen the F6 will provide you with
a copy on the printer.
While you are in the accounts
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mode of Micro-Clerk you can examine
any Analysis Heading, change the
VAT code etc. This allows you to gain
instant access to the amount of money
in your Bank Account, or how much
money is owed to you.
Verdict
Because this package is so comprehensive
it is impossible to give you
more than just a taste of what it can do.
The package is continually being expanded,
with new modules becoming
available all the time In fact I have just
received Sales Ledger and Purchase
Ledger programs that can be used with
the program.
Because of the complexity and
versatility of the program it is being
given to an accountant and to someone
who is just setting up a small business
to use in a practical application. I hope
that in a month or so I will be able to
report their reaction to the program
together with more details about the
Sales and Purchase Ledger.
Amstrad and Alan Sugar have
made a killing in the small business
market with their range of small
business computers that come
complete with software. Micro Clerk is
superior to that supplied with those
machines and I am sure that the C128
and Commodore would have, and may
still, get a larger share of the small
business market if this software was
given away with the machine. Even so
since it is possible to purchase a
complete CI 28 system with two disk
drives and a printer for under E1000
this product is well worth taking a look
Touchline
Commodore UK: 1 Hunters Road,
Weldon, Corby, Northants. Tel: 0536
205555.
JCL Software: 1 Sheffield Road, Southborough,
Tunbridge Wells. Kent TN4
OPD. Tel: 0892 27454.
Prices Inc VAT
Microclerk: £99.99
Extensions Packages
Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, Payroll:
f 75 each
Special Offers
Microclerk plus 1 extension: £150
Microcierk plus 2 extensions: £200
Microclerk plus extensions: £250
Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger:
£125
Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger and
Payroll.. 1'175.