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US 6,486,876 B1Granted
Paperless accounting system
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsSakae Nomura, Shinji Suzuki
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Abstract
In the paperless accounting system of the present invention, even if a person is not accustomed to accounting, a slip can be easily formed by simply inputting data of necessary items displayed on menu screens having different menus in accordance with different types of slips. Input errors of input slip data are automatically checked. Even if erroneous data are input, they can be corrected on the spot. The finished electronic slip files are assigned with slip numbers, respectively.
Claims1
A paperless accounting system for processing expense reimbursements comprising:
- a host processor having an accounting information database for processing paperless accounting slips containing data relating to expense reimbursements;
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- a local processor, remotely connected to said host processor, for creating a paperless accounting slip from input data, the input data including a plurality of input items concerning expenses, said local processor including:
- an input device, having an automatic setup function, for automatically setting unentered input items of a new paperless accounting slip inferentially from previously entered input items of the new paperless accounting slip;
- a display for displaying menu screens having different sets of input items for different types of paperless accounting slips;
- a checker, coupled to said input device, for checking validity of the input data, wherein said checker performs an input item comparison check function for checking validity/invalidity based upon a correspondence between different input items of the input data of a paperless accounting slip;
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- an assignment device for assigning a slip number to a paperless accounting slip having input data determined as valid by said checker.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.