PROGRAM NAME: T/S COUNT
AUTHOR: Jim Payne
TYPE: Business (Accounting)
MACHINE: T/S 2068 (Printer Optional, but very useful)
PRICE: $29.95
AVAILABLE FROM: PHEONIX ENTERPRISES
1780 N Dupont Highway, No.17
Dover, Delaware 19901
I am currently finishing up a degree in Data Processing at our local community college, and about two months ago I was checking my required classes list. Oh no! It can’t be! You mean I STILL have to take Accounting I?!? “There MUST be some mistake…I don’t need to learn…if I want my degree I do, huh? Oh, well, I might as well get it over with now!”
So, I signed up for Accounting I in summer school. The class was 4 days a week, but it only lasted for 6 weeks.
About a week after I started the class (and believe it or not, I was ACTUALLY understanding it!), I received a package from Jim Payne at PHEONIX ENTERPRISES. It was a program called T/S COUNT. I couldn’t believe it! It was a complete ACCOUNTING PACKAGE for the T/S 2068! What timing!
Well, after examining the very nice folder-type packaging, I opened up the package to find a cassette tape and Instruction Manual. Also included is a registration card that must be sent back. For a 90-day period, PHEONIX will replace any damaged tape for $7.50.
Upon loading the program, a very colorful cover sheet appears with the company’s logo. A nice use of the SCREEN$ technique.
The next thing to appear on the screen is the MAIN MENU and this menu shows to me that Jim has attempted to make T/S COUNT as “user-friendly” as possible. There are 13 different choices on the Main Menu, numbered from 00 to 12. If you attempt to input any other number or letters, the input routine rejects your choice, and returns you to the Main Menu again.
Now since I’m taking that Accounting class, and this is an Accounting program…I thought I could “kill two birds with on stone” by CHECKING my homework assignments with T/S COUNT. (Now you don’t think that I would use this chance to actually do my homework with it! WANNA BET?!?)
By carefully reading the Instruction Manual provided, and knowing a few simple Accounting principles (Debits/Credits, Categories of accounts, etc.), T/S COUNT can be used to keep the accounting records for any small business or household.
T/S COUNT is complete with a General Journal and General Ledger. Once the accounts have all been entered, T/S COUNT can generate a chart of accounts, a Trial Balance, a copy of the General Ledger, and an Income Statement. All temporary accounts are closed at the end of the accounting period, and all of the information can be saved to tape for future reference, or later updating. Jim recommends that you use a printer to keep hard copy of the completed statements, and I agree.
To sum up opinion on T/S COUNT, I feel that Jim has done an excellent job translating the enormous task of basic accounting to the personal computer medium. If you have your own small business or would like to keep your household accounts straight, I highly recommend T/S COUNT. It is a well developed program, and can save anyone hours of time in the accounting cycle.