Computerized accounting systems and methods
OwnerKermit Knudtzon, Charles Luther Schmidlinginventors
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Abstract
A computerized accounting system adapted to be used by at least first and second groups of users. The system comprises a host accounting system, an overlay system, a host report system, and an overlay report system. The host accounting system allows users to store transaction data representing financial transactions. The overlay system allows users in the second group of users to store overlay adjustment data representing adjusting journal entries related to the financial transactions. The host report system allows users to generate host reports based on the transaction entries. The overlay report system allows users in the second group of users to generate overlay reports based on the transaction entries and the overlay journal entries.
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A computerized accounting system, comprising:
- a host accounting system, where the host accounting system stores, in a general ledger database, transaction data representing financial transactions that occur over a time period;
- an overlay system, where the overlay system
- enters overlay adjustment data representing adjusting journal entries related to the transaction data stored in the general ledger database, and
- stores the overlay adjustment data in first and second overlay data sets, where
- the first overlay data set contains the overlay adjustment data related to the transaction data in the general ledger database at a first point in time during the time period, and
- the second overlay data set contains the overlay adjustment data related to the transaction data in the general ledger database at a second point in time during the time period, where the second point in time is after the first point in time;
- a host report system, where the host report system creates host reports based on the transaction data stored in the general ledger data set;
- and
- an overlay report system, where the overlay report system generates
- a first overlay report based on the transaction data stored in the general ledger data set at the first point in time and the overlay adjustment data in the first overlay data set;
- and
- a second overlay report based on the transaction data stored in the general ledger data set at the second point in time and the overlay adjustment data in the first and second overlay data sets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.