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Endowment Accounting System
Copyright
1995 © by Larry Hanson, PBS, Inc.
A Comprehensive, Windows® based
Endowment Accounting System
Designed for the Development Office
Overview
EAS, Endowment Accounting System,
copyright 1995, is a Microsoft Windows based application designed to handle the
unique requirements of Endowment Funds and their associated pool of
Investments. The application is written in Microsoft Visual Basic and uses
Microsoft Access databases. Neither Visual Basic nor Access are required.
Main
Menu Screen
Easy
to Use
The intuitive and logical screen
design makes it easy for you to successfully track and monitor your Endowment
Funds and the associated pool of Investments.
Endowment
Information
Have at your fingertips the status
of each Endowment including allocated dividends and appreciation. Also, review
the dollars available for distribution as determined by your organization's
spending policies.
Investment
Information
The system allows you to update
investment data as frequently as required. Investment status may be reviewed on
demand. Provides for printing reports for the Investment Committee and for
Board Meetings.
Additional
System Features
Password Protection
Special Administrator
Functions
Fiscal
Year Update
Support
and Updates
Rates
of Return
EAS
Benefits
ICAS was developed to meet the unique
accounting requirements of Endowment Funds and their associated pool of
Investments. It provides for managing a single Endowment fund of up to $999
million dollars and an associated single pool of investments.
In addition to the regular
Non-Unitized version, a Unitized edition of the program is also available.
Networking and multiple fund editions of the system are available for
additional license fees.
Investment
Update Screen
Investment
Management Features
Interest earning investments
Equity
and mutual fund investment with gains or losses, dividends, shares and NAV and
share prices
Managed
investment accounts
"Escrow"
accounts for temporary storage of funds committed for distribution
Add
new investments
Add
new funds to existing investments
Transfer
funds between existing investments
Withdraw
funds from existing investments
Print
monthly statements
Print a
"summary page" for each investment
Print a
"data entry form" to aid in collecting and entering data for the new
month
Maintain
a "time stamped" audit trail of every transaction
Print
Information required for Title III Endowment Challenge Grant reports
Calculated Rates of Return
Update
Endowment Screen
Endowment
Management Features
Provides
up to 7 different spending policies
Add
new contributions
Add
new Endowments
Transfer
funds between existing endowments
Calculated
Rate of Return for each Endowment
Collect
an Administrative Fee
Calculate
funds available for disbursement for each Endowment including unused funds from
prior years
Create
a notice of available funds for each Endowment
Perform
distribution accounting
Print
monthly statements
Print
a "summary page" for each Endowment
Print
data entry forms to aid in collecting and entering new data
Maintain
a "time stamped" audit trail of every transaction
EAS
Requirements
EAS requires a PC with Microsoft
Windows 95 or higher ® and approximately 2MB space for the program and database
on the hard disk.
The Development
of EAS
Larry Hanson, who worked for IBM Corporation for 32 years, designed and developed EAS. Other products include EAS-T, a Donor Tracking System and ICAS, an Investment Club Accounting System.