Expense

 

 

 

 

User’s   Guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Written by

 

Klaus  CHRISTL

Switzerland

 

klaus.christl@bluewin.ch

 

Version 1.50  March  2008

 

 

 

 

1  Overview

2  Enter an expense

2  Statsitics

4  New trip configuration

5  Adding a new element (currency)

6  Setup


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  Paris

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.