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Accountant's Friend - General Ledger Ver 7b Beta
At this time, Accountant's Friend General Ledger is distributed beta or educational. The system itself is free :)
See the info below to see how to install the system. You can study it either under MS-Access (2010 or 2013) itself, or using the access runtime. AFrnd.accdb is for MS-Access, and AFrnd.accdr is for the runtime. The program has been tested under 32bit Access, and 32/64 bit Windows OS. You need to install AccessRuntime.exe before running under the runtime.
Note that portions of the system not implemented yet have red button captions. Portions of the system implemented should work. If you find a problem, email ballweiss55@gmail.com
Limitations: You need to wait 5 to 10 seconds before clicking the View/Print option box. Otherwise you might get a blank report. Also, after installing, right click the programs Windows Icon, and select Properties. Then change the Run option to Minimize. This will improve the appearance of the program by minimizing the Access execution window's appearence.
If you previosly had the wrong Fiscal Year Begin Month, change it to the correct one at the bottom of the Company Information Screen.
Introduction:
Accountant's Friend is a General Ledger accounting system that provides the basic G/L and related accounting procedures for a small business. Typical businesses might be Accounting, Law, Product Resale, Computer Programming, Website Design, Repair, Training, or others. You do the G/L Transaction Entry with the system, and at the end of the month prepare your Financial Statements. The daily system is also used to manage payments on A/R, miscellaneous income and expenses. The G/L system prints reports on all aspects of the G/L accounting.
See the Manual for more information.
Information on bookkeeping and accounting can be found in the following book:
dndlearning.com/macademysw/BkpE2.pdf
Installation:
Accountant's Friend General Ledger comes as a Windows Application written in MS-Access 2010 - 2013. It has the following directory structure held in the AFrnd.exe file: AFrnd.exe
Executing the exe file will create the following directories and files/databases.
c:\u\AFGL7b\AccBE\DatDEM.accdb
\Datbln.accdb
\Datdfl.accdb
c:\u\AFGL7b\AccFE\AFrnd.accdb
\AFrnd.accdr
\AccessRuntime.exe
\AccessRuntime_X64.exe
\AFrndMAN.pdf
c:\u\AFGL7b\readme\readme.txt
\AFrndMAN.pdf
To install the system, the AFrnd.exe file copies the BE (or Backend databases) to the following directory on the machine you are running AFGL from:
c:\users\public\applicationdata\AFGL7b\
You must put the Datbln.accdb and Datdfl.accdb databases in this directory. However, you can put any other backend databases on any directory on your computer, or network. The Signin Screen lets you select where to find, or create, a backend database.
You may put the Frontend, or program database, anywhere you want. Or you can leave it in the directory you have extracted the exe file to. If you want to look at the code, and/or run AF right from Access, just double click Afrnd.accdb and it will show up in Access. Run by double clicking AFrndmain in the form list of Access.
If you want to run in the Access Runtime, first install the runtime you want (provided in distribution), and then click Afrnd.accdr
The first time you start the program, you need to set the backend database directory to the one discussed just above. It may already be set to the directory shown above for the Backend database. The lookup button for this is at the bottom of the SignIn screen. You probably want to first either use the DatDEM.accdb demo database to play with the system. Otherwise put in a login other than DEM 999 and you will be asked if you want to create a new database (either bln or blank, or dfl fault). For example, if you name is Washington you might chose your BE database ID as "WSH" The login is always "999"
If you are transfering your data from the AFGL6d version, they are not compatible. You can send me your AFGL6d data, and I can make the database compatible and mail it back to you.
See the Help file and the Manual for further instructions. This should get you started.
Ben Allweiss, MBA
ballweiss55@gmail.com
September 17, 2021
