Venture program update 3.01   29/01/2002

This update includes the following improvements and bug fixes to version 2.21:

Invoicing module.
    Update 3.01 sees the release of the Venture invoicing module. This module
allows the user to generate invoices within Venture. There are many useful
features - see the manual for more information.
Please note that this is an add-on module and is not a part of the basic venture
package. It can be purchased from the CSY Venture web site. It is included free
with all trial versions, but is deactivated when the trial version is upgraded
to the full version, and must be purchased if continued usage is required.

Batch entry programs:
    Functional and cosmetic changes have been made to the edit batch program.
    Facility to delete a line has been added (by changing nett amount to zero).
    Sales ledger batch entry programs now show the customer's credit limit and
outstanding balance.

Customer and supplier details programs:
    Fixed a bug which could cause new accounts to appear to have outstanding
balances.
    Additional telephone number, E-mail and web address fields are now available
and the program layout has been changed accordingly.
    Lower case caracters can now be used in the name and address details.

Customer statements:
    Various improvements to the statement layout have been made.

Maintain cost centres program:
    The operation of this program has been changed to make it easier to use.

Prepayments and accruals:
    A prepayments and an accruals control account have been added, so that these
do not have to be entered for each prepayment or accrual.

Sales, purchase and nominal ledger transaction history programs:
    Various cosmetic and functional changes have been made to improve function
and user friendliness.

Disputes facility:
    The facility to mark invoices as disputed has been added. Disputed invoices
can be excluded from statement or remittance printouts as required.

Cost centres for balance sheet accounts.
Previously the system theoretically did not allow cost centred nominal accounts
on the balance sheet, but in practice, it was possible to generate such
accounts, which led to some problems. This release clears up this anomaly.
Balance sheet accounts can now be cost centred with the exception of bank
accounts and control accounts, and the system correctly prevents you from
setting such accounts to use cost centres.
If you have experienced problems as a result of creating cost centres bank
accounts, simply run the data verification program and this will correct these.
This change also necessitates changes to a few other programs to allow for cost
centres where entering balance sheet nominal accounts, for example some of the
fixed assets programs.

Sales and Purchase analysis programs
    have been revised to make the information displayed more relevant and to
allow the user to sort the list by whichever field is required.

Where appropriate, when entering customer, supplier or nominal account codes,
pressing F4 now allows you to create a new customer, supplier or nominal
account.

The system has been improved cosmetically by allowing lower case characters in
nominal account and cost centre names.



Venture program update 2.21   22/03/2001

This update includes the following improvements and bug fixes to version 2.0:

Assets system.
    This update sees the release of Venture's assets system.
Please note that this is an add-on module and is not a part of the basic venture
package. It can be purchased from the CSY Venture web site. It is included free
with all trial versions, but is deactivated when the trial version is upgraded
to the full version, and must be purchased if continued usage is required.

Prepayments and Accruals system
    This update also sees the release of Venture's prepayments and accruals
system. 
Please note that this is an add-on module and is not a part of the basic venture
package. It can be purchased from the CSY Venture web site. It is included free
with all trial versions, but is deactivated when the trial version is upgraded
to the full version, and must be purchased if continued usage is required.

Data conversion from Sage
    There is now a program to convert data from Sage for Windows v.7 (see the
manual for further details).

Customer and supplier account balances programs
    When viewing aged balances, the wrong customer or supplier name was
sometimes printed against the customer or supplier code, and the drill down
customer / supplier history showed the wrong information. These bugs have been
fixed.

Chart of accounts program (multi user versions only)
    The program now warns you that it requires exclusive access to some files.

Edit purchase invoices program
    A bug that prevented postings from this program has been fixed.

VAT system
    The VAT system has been revised to allow more flexibility for users who make
use of the facility to report VAT due and reclaimed on EU supplies and
acquisitions in their VAT return, and the VAT return program has been revised in
order to make it more flexible and easier to use.

Trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet programs
    A bug which could cause errors in the figures when a narrow range of dates
was used has been fixed.
In the balance sheet and profit and loss programs, the facility to drill down to
a nominal account transaction history has been added.

Sales receipts and purchase payments programs
    You can now print remittance advices from the purchase payments program.
    The auto-allocation function now, as stated in the manual, automatically
allocates credits with invoice dates less than the last invoice allocated.

Reverses and error correction
    A program to post reverses and error corrections has been added (you will
find it on the utilities manu).

Bank receipts program:
    an error in the printout, where postings to the sales VAT control account
were shown as postings to the purchase VAT control account has been fixed.

Nominal accounts maintenance program:
    An error in the layout of the set budgets screen has been corrected.

Nominal account categories maintenance program:
    The operation of this program has been completely changed to make it easier
to use.

Maintain cost centres program:
    Minor cosmetic improvements have been made.

Batch entry programs:
    an obscure bug which could occur when the cost centre field was entered
and the right arrow key then pressed has been fixed.

Restore from backup
    Fixed obscure potential problem with licensing following restoration from
backup.

Customer and supplier account turnovers.
    For various reasons, these are now calculated using the invoice rather than
the posting date of invoices and credits. This will only affect you if you have
invoices or credits that were posted in this financial year, but have an invoice
date within the previous financial year (or vice versa). If your turnover
figures appear wrong, run the check data integrity program and these figures
will be corrected. Note, therefore, that the check data integrity program may
find errors in your supplier and customer turnovers the first time it is run
after installing this update - this does not indicate data file problems, but is
purely a result of this change.

Help
    You can now move the cursor to the next highlighted 'link' by pressing the
TAB key.




Venture program update 2.00   28/09/2000

This update includes the following improvements and bug fixes to version 1.2:

Pop up calculator
    A pop up calculator has been added to the system. This can be accessed at
    any time by holding down the ALT key and pressing 1.

Set budgets
    Now allows you to set budgets for nominal accounts that do not use cost
    centres.

Invoice batch entry and editing programs:
    Now correctly applies customer's or supplier's default nominal accounts.

Refund program
    Very minor cosmetic improvements.




Venture program update 1.2   05/09/2000

This update includes a number of improvements and bug fixes to version 1.1:

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VAT reports
    A problem with the way bank payments and receipts were reported has been
    fixed. You should not use the old VAT reporting program.
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Customer / supplier account details :
	Added the facility to print a customer or supplier list.

Trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet programs :
	Substantial modifications to give better and more flexible 
	reporting.

Year end procedure :
	Important changes to year end procedure to allow more useful
	nominal ledger reporting functions after year end procedures.

Chart of accounts program :
	Minor changes to prevent some accounts being misassigned.

Utilities menu :
	Fixed problem which caused the year end program to display an
	error message stating that other users were using the system.

Data verification program :
	This program no longer generates a "File has not been opened yet" 
    error messsage. It now also checks for certain errors in the nominal
    account layout. Improvements have been made where cash accounting is
    used.

Default nominal ledger accounts set up program :
	The previous program incorrectly set up the discount control accounts.
	This then causes error messages in the payments program. This has been
	fixed. If you have experienced this problem, check the venture web site
	(www.csyventure.com) for instructions on how to correct this.

Cost centres set up program :
	When new cost centres were added using this program, the account
	category was not being recorded. This has been corrected.
	This also now shows the cost centre coding correctly.

Sales and purchase ledger transaction history programs :
    Now ages by period correctly.
    An obscure bug that can occur while scrolling through subsets of
	customers and suppliers has been fixed.

Sales and purchase ledger account balances programs :
    Now ages by period correctly.

Sales receipts and purchase payments programs :
    Various improvements and new facilities.

System Accounts set up program :
	Minor modifications to ensure nominal accounts cannot be set up
	without being assigned to categories.

Company details program :
	The user is now prevented from changing the company name and thereby
	locking themselves out of the system.
	Fixed bug concerning modifications to financial year start date.

Set passwords program :
	 Cosmetic improvements have been made and help information added.

VAT analysis programs :
	Corrected a bug in the way the program flagged items as having been
    included in a VAT return and an error in the way the program treated 
    EU sales and acquisitions.

Bank details program :
	Amended to prevent setting of current balance through this program.
	The current balance should be set if required by making a nominal 
	ledger posting.

System configuration program :
	Fixed obscure bug which could prevent the user from switching to a
	cash accounting system or vice versa.

Contra charges :
	This has been modified to correctly process contra charges where VAT
	cash accounting is in use.

Bank reconciliation:
    This program now allows you to fully reconcile any number of unreconciled 
    items.

Refunds programs:
    Cosmetic improvements.

Bank transaction history:
    Now prints out in the correct order.

General :
	This version prevents the user from posting data before setting the 
	year start date.

    The user can now call up a pop up nominal accounts list in many
	programs by pressing ctrl+N. This will be available throughout the
	system shortly.

    The help system has been very substantially expanded and improved.

    Occasionally the key help failed to display when the F1 key was pressed.
    This has now been corrected.

    The presentation of the nominal account structure has been changed to
    make it simpler to use.

Note : there is an error in the default control accounts on early versions
of Venture, in that the discounts allowed and recieved accounts are mixed up.
If you have this error, you can either move the accounts to the appropriate
category using the chart of accounts program or you can change the control
accounts.