EASY COMPUTE W4 1992 v 1.2 Written by R.B. Bartlett Accounting Service (c) COPYRIGHT 1992 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE AND INSTRUCTIONS ARE SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. GOOD DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURE DICTATES THAT ANY PROGRAM BE THOROUGHLY TESTED WITH NON-CRITICAL DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM. ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE. PRINTING THIS MANUAL Place diskette in designated drive, copy W4MANUAL.TXT to C: or at the system prompt, A>, C> etc., type the following command: PRINT W4MANUAL.TXT PRN or PRINT W4MANUAL.TXT LPT1 If neither of these commands work, try LPT2, 3, or 4 in place of LPT1. Make certain printer is on, filled with paper and is on line to the computer. PRODUCT OVERVIEW Hardware requirements for W4 1992 v.1.2 are any PC compatible computer with at least 256k RAM and one disk drive, DOS 2.0; a hard drive is optional. EASY COMPUTE W4 1992 is a stand alone companion program for any payroll application. It is designed to make the filling out of the federal W4 withholding certificate by employees easy and accurate, All guesswork is eliminated and different scenarios of taxpayer status can be computed to determine a desired withholding exemption. Retail versions of EASY COMPUTE W4 1992 will compute the actual amount of refund a taxpayer will receive at filing time. This is available for the shareware version as an add-on module and must be ordered separately. Contact the author for availability and price information. This program was developed and targeted to employers and also to accountants, bookkeepers and tax preparers who would to provide an additional service for their clients. For employers EASY COMPUTE W4 1992 provides a foolproof method for determining an employee's withholding allowance for the current tax year. For accountants, bookkeepers and tax preparers the program provides an avenue for supplementing fee income. The IRS is notorious for it's arcane and cryptic tax forms. The yearly W4 is no exception. One can certainly recall the recent four page monster that was shelved for an equally monstrous two page model that currently inhabits every business in the US. The specific intent of this W4 program is to replace the IRS questionaire and worksheet with one that only requires simple yes or no answers for the basic PERSONAL ALLOWANCES, and simple dollar estimates for the ITEMIZING and TWO-JOB questionaires. The program does the decision making and calculation then returns the proper entries for entering on the official IRS W4. The program is easy to use with screen instructions and menus. The main idea is to print the proper questionaire, have the employee answer the questions then have an operator key in the answers to the exact same screen questions. The progam calculates the proper withholding allowance and/or additional cash withholding , enters a screen result and prints out a hard copy of the results. The employee may then fill out the W4 from the hard copy and sign the certificate. The hard copy results also summarize the input data for comparison with the hand input. No disk data is recorded except the company name and address. The W4 that this program was designed for is for the calendar tax year of 1991. The program is updated annually to take into consideration all tax law changes that would affect any current employees and new employees. All updates and upgrades will be available to registered users at a discount as discussed below. PROGRAM REGISTRATION This program is distributed through SHAREWARE distributors for initial evaluation by the final user. Copies may be made only for evaluation by additional interested parties. This product may not under any circumstances be copied for commercial purposes without the express written consent of the author. Doing so is a direct violation of copyright law. If an user finds this program valuable and wishes to use it on a permanent basis, registration is required. To use this program you must pay for it. Registration will be acknowledged by the author and every registered user will receive a 40% discount on every yearly re-issue and major new versions. Also, if the user registers for the first time after November of the current year, the next yearly update for tax code changes will be issued to that registered user free of charge upon request. The current registration fee is $39.95 tax included. Send all registrations to: R.B. Bartlett Accounting Service 1421 N. Catalina #104 Los Angeles, CA 90027 An order form is provided at the end of this documentation. DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details --some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee --if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it. "Easy Compute W4" is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user- supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful and find that you are using "Easy Compute W4" and continue to use "Easy Compute W4" after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration payment of $39.95 to R.B. Bartlett Accounting Ser. The $39.95 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Commercial users of "Easy Compute W4" must register and pay for their copies of "Easy Compute W4" within 30 days of first use or their license is withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting R.B. Bartlett Accounting Ser. Anyone distributing "Easy Compute W4" for any kind of remuneration must first contact R.B. Bartlett Accounting Ser. at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors adhering to guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering "Easy Compute W4" immediately (However R.B. Bartlett Accounting Ser. must still be advised so that the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of "Easy Compute W4"). You are encouraged to pass a copy of "Easy Compute W4" along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of the "Easy Compute W4" system. R.B. Bartlett Accounting Service 1421 N. Catalina #104 Los Angeles, CA 90027 PROGRAM OPERATION EASY COMPUTE W4 1992 is designed with the final user in mind. It is very easy to use and requires very little instruction as it is self explanatory. Some details as to operation are detailed here: 1. To start the program copy the disk file W41992.EXE to your hard disk or to a working disk. Keep the original copy for use if the working copy becomes unusable. If the program is not copied to your hard disk then place the working copy in the proper drive to start. 2. At the system prompt type "W41992". This will load and start the program. 3. After the logo screen make your choices from the main menu. The PRINT WORKSHEETS option will print the questionaires to be filled out for screen entry. Advanced versions of the program will print questionaires for the DEDUCTIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS worksheet and the TW0-JOB, TWO-EARNER worksheet in addition to a list of short tax definitions that are used by the program. 4. Questionaires on screen may be edited by the backspace key for the current question. 5. The program checks for consistency of answers between different worksheets and will refuse a response that does not agree with similar responses from another worksheet. 6. CONTROL BREAK is operative. 7. The program creates a small file, W4CODATA.L, to hold the company name for the questionaires and results hard copies. No other disk information is created and this version does not save the user input information for archive purposes. It is suggested that the questionaires and results copies be kept with the signed IRS W4 form that is required to be available and on file. 8. Printer emulation is EPSON FX and IBM PROPRINTER. The printer device is LPT or PRN. 9. 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