FastBucks Vers 5.00 Copyright (c) Software Expressions 1992 All Rights Reserved Software Expressions P.O. Box 301002 Houston,Texas 77230-1002 DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT Users of FastBucks Home Finance Manager must accept this disclaimer of warranty: DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY SOFTWARE EXPRESSIONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT, ITS QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SOFTWARE SOLD BY SOFTWARE EXPRESSIONS IS SOLD OR LICENSED "AS IS". THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO ITS QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE IS WITH THE USER. SHOULD THE PROGRAMS PROVE DEFECTIVE FOLLOWING THEIR USE OR REGISTRATION, THE USER (NOT SOFTWARE EXPRESSIONS, ITS DISTRIBUTOR OR RETAILER) ASSUMES THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING,REPAIR,OR CORRECTION AND ANY INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL SOFTWARE EXPRESSIONS BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY DEFECT IN THE SOFTWARE,EVEN IF SOFTWARE EXPRESSIONS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Liscense: FastBucks Home Finance Manager is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, as long as you give them all the files enclosed on this disk. If you are using FastBucks Home Finance Manager and continue to use FastBucks Home Finance Manager after a period of 90 days, you must make a registration payment of $47.75 to Software Expressions. The $47.75 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of FastBucks Home Finance Manager must register and pay for their copies of FastBucks Home Finance Manager within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Software Expressions, Inc.. Anyone distributing FastBucks Home Finance Manager for any kind of remuneration must first contact Software Expressions, Inc. at the address below for authorization. FastBucks (r) is a registered trademark of Software Expressions Disk Vendors: If you wish to distribute the FastBucks Home Finance Manager program please send a written request to: Software Expressions, Inc. P.O. Box 301002 Houston, TX 77230-1002 This will guarantee that you always have the latest release of FastBucks for your distribution channel. BBS Systems: Please use the following description for FastBucks 5.0 on your BBS. File Name : FBK500.xxx xxx = (zip,arc,arj etc.) Description : FastBucks Home Finance Manager vers 5.0 If you are a member of Fidonet and wish to have the latest release of FastBucks sent to you automatically, send me a note with your fidonet zone:net/Node number and I will add you to my tick distribution list. or send me a netmail message at 1:106/3. Description: FastBucks is a Fast and "User Friendly" Finance manager for home or small business use. It supports 25 each checking,charge,savings,Miscellaneous exp., cash, other asset and other liability accounts. FastBucks has a recursive budget model to generate a relatively painless and workable budget for your home finances. It also has a financial calculation section to produce loan amoritizations, savings, and depreciation calculations. FastBucks supports three pin feed check forms and two laser printer check forms, a user definable fiscal year for both personal and business accounts. and supports international currency and date formats. It has 39 expense categories each for personal and business accounts and an additional 15 income categories for personal and business accounts, which may be edited "on-the-fly" while entering data into the program, and also supports 63 reoccurring payees so the program will "fill-in" frequently used entries for you with a couple of keystrokes. System Requirements: Memory --- A minimum of 296K Free user ram. disk --- 2 Floppy disk drives although a hard disk is strongly recommended. Config.sys --- A minimum of Files=20 statement. WHATS NEW! New Features for FastBucks 5.0X 1. More streamlined data entry procedures 2. Entry comment or notes: 1 line 69 chars 3: Income categories added to program 4. Split Income categories over 6 Income categories 5. Income & expense categories can be edited "On the Fly" 6. New Merged listings and graphics 7. On-Screen Expense Summary for individual and Merged accounts 8. Paycheck Deductions can be re-defined by user. 9. Currency "style" can be defined by user. 10. User Defineable Fiscal year for Personal and Business accounts. 11. User Defineable Date entry and Output formats. 12. User Defineable currency symbol. 13. Prints Checks 14. Supports 3 pin feed check forms and 2 laser check forms. 15. Process Re-occuring Payees with automatic check fill-in 16. Transfer funds from one account to another 17. Three new accounts. Cash, Other Asset, & Other Liability have been added 18. 100X faster out of sequence date sort. 19. All menu selections are "Hot Keys" 20. Account Reconciliation now sorts by deposit,atm,withdrawl & check number to make process more convenient. Other cosmetic, and "Internal" changes too numerous to mention have been also added to the program. WHAT YOU GET FOR YOUR REGISTRATION: Software Expressions, Inc. will always ship the most current version of FastBucks Home Finance Manager to you upon receipt of your payment. Technical support for the program is unlimited. (There is NO time limit on the technical support that you need for the program.) You will receive a bound operator manual and Software Key to turn the shipped version of FastBucks into a registered copy along with your own personalized serial number. That way you can share copies of the current version with your friends in it's unregistered form. Shareware Support Policy: Limited technical support for the FastBucks Home Finance manager for unregistered users is limited to helping you to get the program up and running. "Can-it-do" and "Will-it-do" questions will be answered. "How-do-it-do" questions are answered in the Manual.doc enclosed in this package. Please Note: Long distance calls are NOT returned by Software Expressions, Inc. to unregistered users for obvious reasons. Registered Customer Support Policy: Every effort will be made to solve your problem or answer your question over the phone, or if you prefer on the Software Expressions Technical support BBS, Or mail... However mail replys DO take a long time to answer on occasion. If your problem is determined to be a "hardware" or "software" environment compatability problem, we will make every effort to correct the problem, and send you a updated version of the program. If for some reason it is determined that it is impractical to solve the problem your purchase price less a 25% re-stocking fee will be refunded to you, if the materials are returned in undammaged condition. All returns MUST have a return authorization number before they will be accepted. Support Telephone: (713) 541-3063 Weekdays (8am-5pm CST) Support BBS: (713) 541-3910 (24 hours) INSTALLING FASTBUCKS ON YOUR SYSTEM FastBucks is supplied with a install program that will set up the FastBucks program files and sample data files for you. To start the install program simply type install and press your enter key. Carefully follow the prompts given by the program. More detailed instructions for using install are included in the Fastbucks user guide included in this package. To extract the FastBucks user guide: 1: Prepare a blank formatted diskette 2: type Install and press your enter key 3: select extract FastBucks documentation from the install menu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at: ASP Ombudsman 545 Grover Road Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 U.S.A. or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe MAIL to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.