Expensor

The easiest to use expense tracking program for the Newton
Platform

by Tony Pitman



Main Expense Screen



Description

This is the description of what the expense is for.  It is also
what will show up in the overview box if you push the overview
button at the bottom of the Newton screen.



Date

This is the date of the expense.  It is a Newton date field and
if you double tap it to get a keyboard for typing it will only
bring up the date keyboard.



Amount

This is the amount of the expense.  It is a Newton numeric field
and if you double tap it to get a keyboard for typing it will
only bring up the numeric keyboard.



Category

This is the category of the expense.  When you push the category
button you bring up the category lookup.  This lookup consists
of all those categories that you have entered on an expense
previously.  Every time you enter a new expense and exit the
program or move to another expense entry, Newton checks to see
if the category on the current expense is in the lookup yet.  If
it is not Newton adds it to the list.  There is no limit to the
number of categories you enter (only available storage space).



Client

This is the client of the expense.  When you push the client
button you bring up the client lookup.  This lookup consists of
all those clients that you have entered on an expense
previously.  Every time you enter a new expense and exit the
program or move to another expense entry, Newton checks to see
if the client on the current expense is in the lookup yet.  If
it is not Newton adds it to the list.  There is no limit to the
number of categories you enter (only available storage space).



New Button

The new button adds a new entry to the expense soup and clears
the entry areas on the screen.


Remove All Button

The remove all button removes all of the soups and other
information related to Expensor from Newton.  After selecting
this button you get to confirm that this is what you really want
to do.  If you choose OK a window comes up informing you that
all of the soups are gone and to exit Expensor and remove it. 
You may actually restart Expensor after exiting and you will be
starting as if you had just installed Expensor for the first
time with no data.



Action Button

The action button gives you the normal choices of Print, Fax,
Beam, Mail and Delete.  Printing and Faxing prints a report of
all currently entered expenses.  Expensor is designed to be use
for a period of gathering expenses (for example a trip),
printing out the reports and then clearing those expenses for
the next trip.  It is a very basic application.  This may change
in the future if there is a demand for it.  For this reason,
printing and faxing only give you two types of reports.



The first is ordered by category and the second is ordered by
client.  Both reports look the same except for the order that
the records are in and the sub-total breaks.  For the category
report they are in order by category (I hope this is not being
too obvious) and the sub-totals are after every group of
categories.  The same goes for the 'By Client' report.



As I stated before, if there is a high enough demand for it, I
may add the abilities to keep expenses by date also and then be
able to print a date range, but because of the complexity of it
(and I do claim this to be the easiest expense program for the
Newton platform), I have chosen to keep it simple for now.



Delete expense does just that.  I have also chosen to use the
standard Newton deletion animation of throwing a piece of paper
away.  I hope you like it.



Close Box

The close box closes Expensor.  All entries are automatically
saved like most things on the Newton, so you do not have to save
them yourself.



This concludes the instructions for Expensor.

