Expense
User’s Guide
Written by
Klaus CHRISTL
Version 1.50 March
2008
5
Adding a new element (currency)
1
Overview
The purpose
of the program is to track expenses during any trips, business or vacation.
Main
screen:
List of the expenses.
Date: date of the expense
Val: amount
Cat: category, kind of expense
Place: place of the expense
Currency:
Payment: payment mode
> shows
the selected expense
Sum of the expeses
Editing
features
Toolbox
selection of
reference currency
move an
expense up or down
delete an
expense
insert an expense
at the selected position
add an
expense at the list end
edit an
expense
new trip
standard
expenses display
statistics
on expenses
load a trip
file or a setup file
save a trip
file or a setup file
configuration
of the trip
setup and help
2
Enter an expense
Click
on to add an expense.
Press 
to validate or press 
to quit
Date of the day is automatically displayed
The amount field is empty, enter 67 , the value
Select
Select Restaurant
Select Cash
The currency
is automatically selected according to the selected place, € in this case.
The soft
keyboard is directly displayed.
The expense
is added
The total
is updated.
It is also
possible to insert an expense at the selected place with .
To look and or modify the data of an expense with .
Or delete
an expense with .
Move up an
expense in the list 
move down an expense in the list 
3
Statistics
Press
All the
expenses are displayed
Select
Category Hotel
The sum of
all the Hotel expenses,
in CHF (swiss francs) .
You can
select in Ref any other currency to convert the sum.
The filters
are cumulative.
You get all
the expenses for hotels.
4
New trip configuration
Press to create a new trip with it’s
configuration.
You are
prompted to define if you Enter
a name, a comment and select
want to
enter a new trip, modify a
setup file if there exist some.
the current
one or cancel. New
means a complete new configuration.
Press
to validate or to exit.
Enter the
different currencies for the
trip with
their change.
Press 
to add a currency
Press to validate a modification
Press 
to delete a currency
Press 
or 
to move up or down
Press ‘Place’ and Press ‘Cat’
do the same
for the different places. For
the payment categories.
Press ‘Payment’ The
trip is configured. It can be modified
For the
payment modes afterwards.
Press to exit
You can
save the config in a file with .
Enter the
parameters The
expense is in the list.
And
press to validate. You
can save the trip with .
As soon as
the first expense is entered, the config screen
changes.
The delete and move buttons disappear and the load button also to avoid incompatibilities.
5
Adding
a new element (Ex. currency)
You can at
any time add new elements to the different categories.
Ex. New currency Brazilian
Real R$
Click
on 
configuration and select Currency
Enter R$ in the Currency field
Enter 2.67 the change of the new currency
according to your
reference
currency, the euro in this example
Click
on 
to add the new currency at the end of the
list.
That's it !
Don't
forget to save 
the modification either
- in the trip
- or as a new config file, you can save it as the Default.cfg
file.
6
Setup
Press
Select your
language
Select if
you want to be prompted before exiting the program.
Select if
you want to load the last file used instead of the default one.
The program
is designed for 7 languages, 6 are implemented, 1 is
not Spanish
It is
possible to add these languages in translating one of the text files:
ExpenseE.txt ExpenseF.txt ExpenseD.txt ExpenseI.txt
English French German Italian
And save it
under
ExpenseS.txt for
Spanish
The program
checks the presence of these files and allows the selection of the language.