CASHAC
– from 6o6oSoftware
CASHAC is software for personal Cash Accounting. You enter details of all your income and expenditure, across all your various external accounts (eg cheque account(s), credit card(s), store cards, etc – the most basic external ‘account’ being hard cash). With each transaction you include an indication of what the transaction was for, for example the spending or income category (such as “Groceries”, “Electricity”, etc). These categories can be gathered into groups (such as “Recurrent spending”, “Non-recurrent spending”, etc) to assist in the setting and monitoring of budgets. Groups can themselves be grouped, with nesting to any depth. Over time you can then track where all your money is going. Along the way the software assists you in checking your bank statements, reminding you when regular spending is due, and keeping track of what you owe and are owed. I wrote the software to assist with my own book-keeping, and over several years I have continuously refined it so that the chores of transaction entry and statement checking are now as streamlined and as painless as possible.
Cashac runs under all versions of Windows up to (& including) XP. I have not tested it under Vista (see also below under “BDE”).
Software
download (version 26.08, October 2009, 680 kB)
The
software is in a zip file which you will need to extract to a folder of your choice
– I suggest C:\Cashac. If you are upgrading from a previous version of Cashac,
then extract to a temporary folder and copy just CASHAC.EXE to your Cashac
folder. All a bit clunky, apologies, one day I’ll wizz it up.
You
will need the “Borland Database Engine” (BDE) to run Cashac. You may already
have this, for example if you have downloaded other database programs from me
or from other authors that have been developed using “Delphi” from Borland. You
can find out if you already have the BDE by searching your C: drive for a file
named IDAPI32.DLL. Or you can download & run this
small utility. The BDE needs a couple of tweaks to run under Vista, which
are described in various places on the internet, for example here
or here.
If
you do not already have BDE you can download it from here
or here
or here.
Other
programs which I have written can be found here. All my software is
written primarily for my own use, so please do not expect the same standards as
professional software. Contact me at charlie dot thomas at sixtysixtysoftware
dot com for help or suggestions – include the application name in the
subject line so that you stand a chance of being noticed in the blizzard of
spam.
Charlie
Thomas
6o6oSoftware
October
2009
PS - I am proud to be listed on NoNags, a huge repositary of free software for Windows.
