LucentHomeFinance Online-Hilfe: Das klare Haushalts-Buch

Highlights:

Quick and easy input of your daily incomes and expenses.
Any number of family-members can be administrated.
Transfers between familiy-accounts are possible.
All your incomes and expenses are clearly arranged in detail.
Monthly and annualy compositions are possible
Password protection is possible.
Standing orders monthly, weekly or any others dates.

you have only access to the settings.
In this dialog you have to edit in order Family-Name,
Family-Members and their Accounts. These parameters can be changed at any time.

Overview of all transactions:

all transactions in the period 'from' 'to' will be shown in this list. Red entries are expenses, green are incomes and blue are transfers ( between family-member accounts ). This colors can be changed in the 'Settings'.
The list can be sorted with clicking at the headline of the list. For example clicking at Amount, the list will be sorted by amount.

For every payee the program remembers the last transaction, and suggest this at the next selection. Internal the program includes a hit-list, the most selected entries come to the top of the lists.
Clicking at the headline of the list, the list will be sorted in alphabetical order.

Also Externnal-Accounts ( Supermarket, Gas-station ) can be edit here. All Transactions are parted in Categories and Sub-Categories - what makes it much more clear. This can be edit in the dialog 'Edit Categories'. Another point is the Password-Protection, you edit here.
Entries written in red, means that they are already used in a transaction.
A few Externnal-Accounts and Categories are already included in this software, you have to expand only, when it's necessary.

With the right Mouse-Key every transaction can be edited or deleted. If you delete a transaction, at first it will be shown in gray color. Clicking again with the right mouse-key it can be deleted definitely or reactivated.

Transactions will be monthly sorted in in single files: The file-name consists out of the first 5 letters of the family-name + date ( Year Month ):
Mille_200901.lhf

That's all - ready for the first transaction:

For example Paul bought for his son Peter a toy in an Online-Shop. He payed it from his Giro-Account.
So Applicant is 'Paul,Giro-Account', Payee is 'Online-Shop', and Beneficiary is 'Peter'. This expense fits into the Category 'Gifts' and Sub-Category 'Toys'.
To select this entries, just click into the lists.
If the necessary entrie is not available in the list, with the right Mouse-Key you you can edit the list.
After the input of the Amount and a Comment, if you wish that, the button Assume
is now activated. Also the transactions-Date is free selectable.
In the dialog Overview you can see all the transactions.

You want to know the monthly costs of your car with one click, or what you spend for insurances in a year - much more important, how much money is left at the end of the month ? Then you are exactly right here !!

Clicking INTO the list, e.g. at the entry Insurance in the column category, only
transactions with this entry will be shown. In the example in a period from 1/1/2009 to 1/12/2009 there are expences about 141,00 for insurances.
So the list can be sorted with every single entry. You get detailed information for every account, every person or category - for any time period.

These files will be stored to the directory C:\Programme\LucentHomeFinance 1.0\
This directory should be backed up to an external medium ( CD/DVD e.g. ) from time to time.
With D marked transactions are Standing Orders.

Standing Orders:

Standing Orders can be executed automatically monthly, weekly or at any dates in the year. This overview shows the amount of all orders ( Incomes, expenses and transfers ) in a year.
Also this overview can be sorted by any entry. Clicking at insurances in the column 'Category' you will see all insurances you pay in a year, including the amount (!) Clicking at an entry with the right Mouse-Key it can be edit.

Edit Standing Orders works in the same way as input a transaction but you need a start- and end-date, and an execution- cycle. It can be monthly, weekly or at any dates in the year ( Different Dates ). If you select 'different dates', e.g. because an insurance must be payed twice a year, you have to select month and day, and move it to the list.

Are there still questions after reading this Online-Help, do you have ideas to improve this software or found bugs, I'm looking forward to your e-mail !
Have fun !