The Personal Finance Application

This book is about a computer application created by the author, which can be downloaded from the Internet. The application was created using Microsoft Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Graphics. The author did the necessary programs to join both. Reports can be created using Microsoft Excel. The steps in general to do the reports are: 1. First, the user obtains the summary data for the month and year from the application. 2. Then use the Microsoft Excel Edit / Paste command to copy the data and the graph from the application. See Overview on pages v - xii for more information. This application has nine predefined transaction types; for example, bank checking account deposit, withdrawal—monthly fixed, withdrawal—monthly not fixed, credit card purchases and cash purchases—monthly fixed, etc. There are transactions descriptions that the user defines within the transactions types. Some of the menus are Setup, Transactions, Monthly Totals and Summary, and Inquiry.