Club 100 Library - 415/939-1246 BBS, 937-5039 NEWSLETTER, 932-8856 VOICE GLWTB is a small program for writing a chart of accounts for use with the GL100 accounting program. In order to use any sorting program to develop accounting records you must first have a chart of accounts. This program allows you to enter account titles and numbers in the format used by the GLCHEK program and other GL100 programs for sorting and reporting. You are presented with two screens. One invites you to either make another entry, or stop. The other is an input screen. Where you input a number and account title. You can also enter an ending balance. The ending balance should be last year's balance, not an earlier period of this year which should be entered with a journal entry. Once the information is entered the program sorts sorts it in case you didn't enter it in numerical order. After exiting you will see a file called WTB.DO which stands for Working Trial Balance. You will see that in addition to the number and title there are five numeric fields which are used for accumulating the working information for reports. Once you understand the format used you can just use the M100 text editor and throw away this silly program. Just make sure you keep everything in numerical order. The following ranges are necessary for use with GL100: 100-149 Current Assets 150-199 Other Assets 300-349 Current Liabilities 350-399 Long Term Liabilities 400-499 Equity 500-599 Income 800-899 Expenses Also, two specific account number/titles are required: 104 Cash In Bank 410 Retained Earnings The mysterious missing ranges are reserved for future purposes, that I might add if I feel like it. If you prefer different ranges, feel free, but you'll have to changes the report programs that use them, though it shouldn't be too hard. Definitions (for those who need them) Current Assets: Cash, Accounts Receivable, Inventory,Pre-paid Expenses, Short term investments. Any asset readily convertible to cash or likely to become cash in the short term, meaning less than a year. Other Assets: Long Term Investments, Notes Receivable (long term promisory notes, not accounts receivable), Property and Equipment, Building, Land. Any asset that won't become cash for at least a year. Current Liabilities: Accounts Payable, Short term Notes Payable, Refundable Deposits owed. Any debt or liability due within the year. Long Term Liabilities: Just what's implied, mortgages, bonds and the like. Equity: Stock, or Ownership interest, plus retained earnings. Expenses & Income: Pretty obvious. One more note: If you need or like more accounts you can use longer number or sub-accounts i.e.: 10600 or 106.00 Cash in CD's. The accounts are treated as strings, not numbers. Any questions, drop me a note. Jon Kaplan