REVIEW OF PERSONAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (P.F.A.S.) PERSONAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM version 1.9 is a small business/personal checkbook manager designed to make bank auto-reconciliation absolutely painless. PERSONAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM provides the necessary information to get through any bank reconciliation statement. It can handle up to 1000 transactions in one file for the full year. You can have as many as 20 working account data files in each hard drive subdirectory or floppy disk. An outstanding feature lets you define up to ten different customized charts to properly categorize all your transactions for reports. This is very much like a chart of accounts in a general ledger. Each transaction can then be included in a neatly detailed expenditure report according to the nature of the expenditure for any date specified fiscal period within the year. This is a strong plus at tax time and for budget purposes. You also have the full ability to edit, insert new or delete current transactions and sort your transactions by Date, Check#/Deposit, Issued To and even by $Amount. The current balances are posted at the top of the screen to let you know how any transaction has affected your bottom line at anytime, any place in the file. P.F.A.S. offers just enough, clear instructions to get any beginner user off the ground quickly in computing. The program has enough structure in it to guide any newcomer in computing through the program without confusion or puzzlement but not "boging" down the experienced end user. The screens look very similiar to many DBASE programs in their style of screen prompting which are the least ambiguous of any screens used. The screens switch to monochrome or color automatically when using Hercules, MDA, mono adapters or CGA, EGA or VGA color adapters. The program can search out transactions by date, check number, or by the nature of the expenditure by its "issued to" contents. If you search out by "issued to", it will list on the screen and/or printer all like transactions and sum the amounts at the bottom of screen again within any specified fiscal period within the year. This is useful if you would like an "on the spot" glance of a category expenditure without printing the expenditure report. Transactions can be listed to screen only and printer too by transaction to transaction number, date to date or total transactions in file. Comments include: "The sorts are fast" "Easy access to data by variety of options" "P.F.A.S. has the potential of managing simple or complex needs" "Great for business or personal checking" "Tidy program that leaves no assumptions about the user" "Good, quick screen action" "P.F.A.S. leaves you feeling in complete control of your finances" Review Pg.1