E X P E N S E R E P O R T 9 8 ================================== Thank you for buying Expense Report 98! Expense Report 98 is a very easy to use Expense Report program which you can use to create great looking Expense Reports with very little effort. Expense Report 98 is suitable for most business expenses. You can either select one of the many pre-existing report templates which are included with the program or customize any of them to suit to your needs. You can then add these customized templates to the library of templates available to you everytime you create a new Expense Report. FEATURES (New features marked as 'New Feature') =============================================== A very intuitive and popular spreadsheet-like WYSIWYG interface is used to make the task of entering your expenses very simple and quick. The program has several pre-defined templates to suit most of your needs. For the users with very special needs the program offers a simple customization function to just reword the expense items or advanced customization to add/delete expense items. You can track cash and company paid expenses and also specify the cash advance taken for your expenses. Using this information the program calculates the exact amount owed to you by the company. Itemized Expenses: You can itemize any of the expenses to include details as the city where the expense was incurred, the people who were entertained, and any other comments you might want to include. A separate itemized expense list is printed for attaching with your expense report. Budgets (New feature): Using the budgeting feature built into the program you can set budgets for various expense items and categories and then use budget analysis to see how your actual expenses compare to the budgets. Account Codes (New feature): You can specify account codes to various expense accounts. This is very useful if you wish to transfer information from your expense report directly into any accounting program. Export (New feature): You can export your expense reports in HTML format to publish of the company Intranet or sending to someone who does not have access to Expense Report 98. You can export in tab-delimited text format that can be opened by most spreadsheets and database programs. Payment Status Tracking (New feature): You can track your expense report by storing additional information with your report such as when it was submitted for reimbursement, when was it paid and what amount was paid. Security: You can secure your expense reports by password-protecting the files. This is especially important if you send your expense reports via the Internet. Only the people with correct password (set by you) can open the expense report. Email from the program: You can directly email the expense report from the program. No need to start you email program, composing a message and attaching the expense report file as an attachment - the program does all this for you automatically. Goods and Services Tax for Canadian users (New feature): The program can calculate Good and Services tax GST for tax purposes. This feature is very useful for Canadian users who can claim GST credit on their tax returns. SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK ==================== We appreciate all user feedback to make our products better and more useful. Please send your feedback to us at: Mail: Zoom Systems, 1025 N. Central Expwy. Suite 300-111 Plano, TX 75075 USA Email: zoom@saxena.com World Wide Web: www.saxena.com/zoom