Microsoft Office Accounting User

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Talking about Thomas L. Friedman: The open-door bailout - International Herald Tribune
"Dear America, please remember how you got to be the wealthiest country in history. It wasn't through protectionism, or state-owned banks or fearing free trade. No, the formula was very simple: Build this really flexible, really open economy, tolerate creative destruction so dead capital is quickly redeployed to better ideas and companies, pour into it the most diverse, smart and energetic immigrants from every corner of the world and then stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat."

We just had new elections here. Those that want the government to give them things for free won. History will repeat itself and this time the world will experience GD 2.0.

Those of us here who prepared will ride this out and will be able to recreate opportunity again.

In order to put the current economic situation in perspective one only needs to be a student of history and current events:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

Thomas Jefferson 1802

We have for the last couple of years focused on paying down debt and to date we are in a manageable situation. So much so that we are expanding our business into a different area but related to our core business plan.

That is what happened to us in the twenties. We sustained high levels of employment in that period with the aid of an exceptional expansion of debt outside of the banking system. This debt was provided by the large growth of business savings as well as savings by individuals, particularly in the upper-income groups where taxes were relatively low. Private debt outside of the banking system increased about fifty per cent. This debt, which was at high interest rates, largely took the form of mortgage debt on housing, office, and hotel structures, consumer installment debt, brokers' loans, and foreign debt. The stimulation to spending by debt-creation of this sort was short-lived and could not be counted on to sustain high levels of employment for long periods of time. Had there been a better distribution of the current income from the national product -- in other words, had there been less savings by business and the higher-income groups and more income in the lower groups -- we should have had far greater stability in our economy. Had the six billion dollars, for instance, that were loaned by corporations and wealthy individuals for stock-market speculation been distributed to the public as lower prices or higher wages and with less profits to the corporations and the well-to-do, it would have prevented or greatly moderated the economic collapse that began at the end of 1929.

Taken from:

Inequality of wealth and income

Marriner S. Eccles, who served as Franklin D. Roosevelt's Chairman of the Federal Reserve from November 1934 to February 1948, detailed what he believed caused the Depression in his memoirs, Beckoning Frontiers (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1951)

In today’s terms my interpretation is that there are too many on Wall Street using our investments to create products that have gone far beyond job creation and have been USED to create wealth for investment bankers as monetary creations that have no effect on creating wealth for small business, but only themselves.

Anyone who accepts the coming bailout of trillions of dollars to these firms should be held to the utmost scrutiny. Those that got us in this situation should be held without bond in a Guantanamo style jail system until trial.

Test machine setup:

Vista SP1
OA Pro 08 SP1

This addin would not install automatically. Had to do it this way:

From Utilities/Addin Manager

Select "Install New" then you would need to look in this file:

Microsoft Small Business. The select Small Business Accounting Addins

Open, then select SMB_UI.dll :

Small Business Manufacturing should start the install process from here. It takes what seems like a long time to install (approx 20 mins). After the installation is complete you should see Small Business Manufacturing as an available addin for OA Pro 08:

It is a top level menu option:

The addin has some problems with the above test machine configuration:

Also some user interface issues with Vista:

All lines following the name of the item are unreadable in white text until you tab over:

Cannot access the help files in any window:

If your business processes Invoices that require a field for "unit of measure" start by adding this field to an item. This can be any random item in your Inventory. Follow these steps:

Open an Item:

Select the user defined fields tab:

then new fields:

At this point select any of the options available. If you want a numeric field choose between Text and Number. If you choose number for your new field it will reflect on your invoice this way, 1,234,567. If you don't want this format select text then name the new field:

Now, open a new Invoice then select Modify Layout:

In form section select columns or anywhere you want to put the new field on your invoice:

Add it to: show these fields in order. Move your new field up or down for how you want it to show on your invoice:

User Defined Fields are for internal use...