The purpose of a DATA ENTRY program is to ENTER TRANSACTIONS into the
Accounting System. The Records created are TEMPORARY and are heavily
VERIFIED, BEFORE creating PERMANANT POSTING RECORDS.

The normal process is to enter a BATCH of TRANSACTIONS, then to VERIFY the
Batch with Control Totals and PROGRAM CHECKS for Invalid Entries. An INPUT
REGISTER is printed for a PERMANANT AUDIT TRAIL (only the Final, Approved
run is saved). Then the operator can APPROVE the UPDATE of the PERMANANT
RECORDS.

UPON SELECTION of a Data Entry Program from a Menu, THE FIRST RECORD IN
THE FILE (in Key Field Sequence) will appear on the Screen.This will ONLY OCCUR
if you had PREVIOUSLY entered some Transactions, and had NOT done the Update
Step.

To FIND A RECORD or a GROUP OF RECORDS in this Input File you can user the
FILTER MENU at the top left of the Input Screen.

If the TRANSACTION FILE is EMPTY (no records in it) you will see a BLANK FORM on
the Screen with ONLY the ADD BUTTONS in the CONTROL PANEL.You can then
immediately begin to ADD NEW TRANSACTIONS.