Home Budget Planning, Accounting, And Reconciliation, Software Application Designed To Be An EZ Personal Budgeting And Accounting Tool For Home And Small Business Financial Management
2. BUDGIEBOY IS A
COMPREHENSIVE
ACCURATE
EFFICIENT
PROFESSIONAL
Home Budget Planning, Accounting, And Reconciliation, Software
Application Designed To Be An EZ Personal Budgeting And
Accounting Tool For Home And Small Business Managing All Of
Your Financial Accounts With A Complete Picture In A Single
Location By Linking All Your Personal Accounts, Incomes,
Savings And Expenditures By Data Entry You Put In As Well As
Personalizing And Linking Your Accounts And Expenditures To
Their Websites
3. BUDGIEBOY HAS:
An Interface Comparable To A Cross Between A Microsoft Excel
Spreadsheet And A Cash Register For Data Input
Pay-cycles Established Based Upon Your Pay Date Frequency
Items That Can Be Set To Be Automatically Entered By Month If
They Of A Reoccurring Nature
Each Transaction Entry Can Be Modified At Anytime By Editing
The Spreadsheet Cell's Content
Each Transaction Can Be Checked Off In-process And Once
Reconciled
4. AUTOMATED FOR YOU:
Access To Your Online Accounts
Bank Accounts
Credit Accounts
Store Accounts Etc..
Customer Account Databases
Comprehensive User control
User Has Full Control Of Data Input Content For Both
Temporary And Permanent Entries
Historical Financial Outlook
Searchable Transaction History
5. AUTOMATED FOR YOU
Chart
Various Perspectives Of Accounts And Activities
Hyperlinks To Account Websites Entering The
Website Address So You Can Have Easy Web
Access To The Related Account
Help Files
Patches
6. Upon Install Budgie Will
Request A Start-up Form
This Form Enables To Set
Up Your
Personal/Home/Or
Business Account Data
You Can Have More Than
One User/Account Data
7.
8.
9. If You Have A Web Address For The Account You Should Enter It Here.
An Icon Will Appear To The Left Wherever You
See The Bank Name. You Can Then Easily Access
The Account By Clicking On It's Icon.
14. NAME YOUR
ACCOUNT
A PAY CYCLE
TRANSACTION ENTRY
WORKSPACE
ACCOUNT DETAILS AND
ACCOUNT ACTIVITY
WORKSPACE
BUDGET CALCULATOR
15. ALL NEW TRANSACTIONS AND
OPERATIONS ARE ENTERED
HERE
Bank Account
Item Description
Transaction Date
Amount
Operation
16. Prints Out The Data
From Your
Workspace Grid Of
Your Budget
17. Gives An Overview Of
All Transactions By
Various Accounts And
Pay Cycles
18. Displays Or Hides The
Transaction Entry Panel
For Entering New
Transactions
19. Each Budget File Must Have At Least
One Bank Account Established To
Enter A Transaction Against
You May Choose To Have Multiple
Bank Accounts, Savings And/Or Credit
Card Accounts That You Want To
Include For A Particular Budget
20. Transaction Descriptions Can Be Added
As Needed During The Transaction
Entry Or You Can Manually Add, Delete,
Or Modify Them At Any Time By
Clicking The
Tool-bar “Expense” Tab
21. There Is A Set Of Pre-defined Expense
Categories And Sub-categories
Provided That Describes Distribution Of
Debits And Credits These Categories
Can Be Customized For Individual
Budget Database One At A Time
22. BudgieBoy Can Be Customized To Coincide
With Your Pay Cycles
In Order To Define Or Modify The Pay Cycle
Click On The Pay Cycle Tab
Select The Frequency Of The Pay Cycle
And Then Choose The Appropriate Option(s)
As They Are Presented For That Frequency
23. FILE
Option To Save And/Or
Exit
BudgieBoy Will Prompt
You To Save Or Not Save
EDIT
Copy Transactions
Search For Transactions
Delete Transaction
Delete Transaction
Worksheet
TOOLS
Program Options
Manage Budgets
Backup
Restore
HELP
Help File
Updates
System Information
Test Error Form
BudgieBoy Home
About BudgieBoy
26. The Chart Is A Breakdown And
Distribution Of Cash Flow
Showing A Picture Of Your
Money Is Coming And Going
27. An Account Drop Down List Of
Banking Or Credit Card Accounts
28. The Refresh Button Updates
Data, (Information), The User
Enters Into The Grid Sorting And
Updating The Grid With The
New Information
29. Your Starting, Current, Or
Running Balance Reflecting Your
Available Balance
*be sure to check your bank balance or
credit cards frequently to manually
update your starting balance field to
keep your account current and
reconciled *
30. Check This Box In The Transaction
Activity Workspace When An Item
Has Cleared Your Bank Account
Affecting Your Starting Balance
31. Check This Box In The Transaction
Activity Workspace When An Item
Is “In Process,” But Has Not Yet
Cleared From Your Account Or
Starting Balance
32. The Due-Date Or Pay Date You
Enter For A Transaction To Pay
A Bill Or Some Other Expense
You Want To Make Note Of
41. We Hope You Found Our Application Easy-to-use And Helpful And Useful
Software Support
To check whether you have the most recent version of "Budgie Boy", please check the
BudgieBoy home page at www.budgieboy.com
Technical support is available at no charge as described below. The best way to report
problems is with the support forms available from the “Support” link on the BudgieBoy
home page www.budgieboy.com. You can also send e-mail to support@budgieboy.com or
postal mail to following mailing address:
Stellar Revolutions Inc.314 Baylor Rd.
Watsontown, PA. 17777
When reporting problems, please include the following information:
1.Is the problem reproducible? If so, how?
2.What version of Windows are you running (Windows XP, Windows Vista, etc.)?
3.What version of ‘BudgieBoy’ are you running (to see what version ‘BudgieBoy’ you
have, choose About BudgieBoy from the Help menu)? Please include the entire
“version” line in your problem report.
4. If a dialog box with an error message was displayed, please include the full text of
the dialog box, including the text in the title bar.
Note: You can press F1 at any time while ‘BudgieBoy’ is active for context sensitive help.
Editor's Notes
This is where you register all of your account identities and pertinent information. For example:Your household accountYour business accountIndividuals’ accountsYou will also choose a location on your PC to store you active and backup data; BudgieBoy recommends that you store it where you saved your BudgieBoy application.
You can have multiple banking and credit accounts each having their own budget for the same Pay Cycle.To create or modify a banking account click on the “Accounts” button.Add oredit the name for the banking or credit account in the grid to the left .All other fields are optional and for your information only.
Depending on how often you get paid, you will be presented with 4 different screens:Every week - Define the day of the week to begin each Pay Cycle.Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc....Every other week – Define the day of the week to begin next Pay Cycle.Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc.... And then define theLast Pay Date used to establish the correct start date of next Pay Cycle. Once per month – Pay Cycle begins on certain date or day and week once per month,establish what day of the month;1 – 31, establish the week; first, second, third, fourth, or last, and establish the day of the week; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc....Twice a month – Pay Cycle begins on a certain date or day and week twice per month. Establish which days of the month your Pay Cycle beginsand ends; first day of the month1 – 31, and then the second day of the month; 1 – 31. Establish which weeks of the monthyour pay cycle falls on; first and third week, or second and fourth week. Whichday of the weekMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc....
For expense items that are frequently used you should create an expense account item for them. This will allow you to select them from a drop down list the next time you need to add a new transaction item for it.To create or modify an Expense Accounts click on the “Expense” button.To edit the name of an existing Expense Account click on the item in the grid to the left.Or To add an Expense Account click on the last row in the grid to the left and enter a name for it .Select the Distribution Category.All other fields are optional and for your information only.If you have a web address for the expense account you should enter it here.An icon will appear to the left each time this item is used in the grid for your budget transaction items.You can then easily navigate to this web page to make a payment by clicking on it's icon. Click on “OK” to save your changes and close the window.This returns you to the “BudgieBoy” main window.
There Is a set of pre-defined expense categories and sub-categories provided that describe the distribution of your debits and credits. These categories are unique to, and saved within each individual budget database. Altering one does not effect the other.Click on the Categories button to edit the list of defined Categories.You are then presented with the following screen. The Default Expense Category is used for items that you do not anticipate frequently using and do not want to add them to your list of Expense Categories. In that case the transaction items are distributed to the "Default Expense Category". You can change the "Default Expense Category" by selecting it in the Tree View below it and the clicking on the "Set Default Category" button.You can edit the name of a Category or Sub-Category by left clicking on them twice pausing briefly between clicks.You can add or delete Categories and Sub-Categories by right-clicking on them..
The Expense Distribution Chart is useful to provide you with a visual overview of the distribution of your funds. The Chart defaults to the current select Pay Cycle or may be redrawn based upon a date range which you may specify. The Bars on the Chart are color coded with the Legend to the right. Each main Category will have it's own color. To egt a break down of the Category you may click on that Category in the Legend. By clicking on the Category in the Legend a new window will open providing you with of all the Transaction items and their Sub-Categories. If you see an item that is questionable or misallocated you can easily navigate to that item by double-clicking on it.
If the new information affects the pay cycle or bank or credit card account the refresh button updates the grid which would be found on its own grid or new pay cycle
A transaction memo/note can be created to describe, notate, or remind you what the transaction was for/about. If created, there will be an icon two columns to the right of the description field in the mainTransaction Grid If a Memo is present it will appear below the Main Grid in the text box with the Yellow background.