• Enter the names of the accounts that are participating in the event in the "Accounts" view.
  
  
• Create an event in the "Events" view.
  
  
• Add the currencies you need in the "Currencies" view.
  
  
• Start adding expenses in the "Expenses" view.
  
  
• Check the balance in the "Balance" view.
  
  

• Accounts
  
  
• Events
  
  
• Currencies
  
  
• Expenses
  
  
• Balance

Eric, Paul and Ken are going on a skiing trip together. Eric decides he will use 'Expense Sharer' to keep track of their expenses.

He starts out by creating three accounts with the names 'Eric', 'Paul' and 'Ken'.

Paul pays 150$ for the train tickets for himself and Eric. Ken wanted to join them by car the next day. Eric adds an expense where he selects 'Paul' in the 'Who paid' field and he puts both 'Eric' and 'Paul' in the paid for list. He also fills in 'Train tickets' in the 'What' field as well as the right currency and the amount in the 'Amount' field.

Eric now goes to the balance view and can verify that he owes Paul 75$.

On the second day, Paul is short of money, so he borrows 100$ of Eric. Eric creates an expense where he puts himself in the 'Who paid' field and 'Paul' in the 'Paid for' list.

The last day, they have a dinner together, which Ken pays 30$ for. Eric creates an expense where 'Ken' is in the 'Who paid' field and all three of them are in the 'Paid for' list.

When they get home Eric has thought about a new way of using 'Expense Sharer'. He wants to keep track of his own expenses and creates the accounts 'Food', 'Fun' and 'Sport' which he puts, together with his own account, in the new event 'Private Budget'. He buys a pair of new skis and put 'Eric' in the 'Who paid' field and 'Sport' in the 'Paid for' list. He has promised himself to spend 1000$ on sport equipment this year, and Expense Sharer now helps him sticking to his budget !

Business trip example:

A few years later, Eric has got a new job as a sales manager for a small ski company called 'Great skis'. He is sent on his first business trip, and of course he brings 'Expense Sharer' with him.

He adds an account which he calls 'Great skiis'. He calls the event for 'My first business trip' and adds his own and the 'Great skis' account to it. To get to the airport, he takes a taxi, and adds an expense where he puts himself in the 'Who paid' field and 'Great skis' in the 'Paid for' list.

To edit an account, select an account from the list and press the "Edit..." button. The same view that appears when you select to add an account will appear, but the fields will be full of the previous information you entered for that account - for you to edit.

You can delete an account by selecting him/her in the list and then push the "Delete" button.

To add a new event, press the "New..." button. An "Event" view will appear where you should decide for a name on the event as well as which "Accounts" participate in the event. The name of an event can for example be "Denmark Sept 2002". Note that you will not be able to change the name of an event once you have started adding expenses to it, so you might want to select a proper name straight away !

To edit an event, select the event you want to edit from the list and press the "Edit..." button. The same view that appears when you select to add an event will appear, but the fields will be full of the previous information you entered for that event - for you to edit.

You can delete an event by selecting it in the list and then press the "Delete" button. If expenses has been added for the event, you will be warned that all the expenses for the event also will be deleted. If you get this question, you should press the "Ok" button if you want the expenses to be deleted or "Cancel" if you suddenly changed your mind and do not want to delete the event anymore.

If you have created several events, you might want to set one as "Default". This means that this is the event that will come up as default in other views of this program.

Example:

Let's say your reference currency is NOK, and you have given it the value 1.00. If you have to pay 6.93 norwegian kroner for a US$, the rate for US$ will be 6.93.

You can add, edit or delete a currency. You can also set a currency as the default currency. The default currency will be the default choice in the expense- and balance view.

To add a new currency, press the "New..." button. A "Currency" view will appear where you should decide for a name off the currency. It might be a good idea to keep the currency names to its standard three letters which you will find in most news papers.

To edit a currency, select the currency you want to edit from the list and press the "Edit..." button. The same view that appears when you select to add a currency will appear, but the fields will be full of the previous information you entered for that currency - for you to edit.

You can delete a currency by selecting it in the list and then press the "Delete" button. If expenses has been added that makes use of the currency, you will not be allowed to delete it. You must then delete the expenses that makes use of the currency first.

If you have created several currencies, you might want to set one as "Default". This means that this is the currency that will come up as default in other views of this program.

You can add, edit and delete an expense.

To add a new expense, push the "New..." button. A "Expense" view will be displayed. In this view, you specify

• Who has paid for the expense.
• Which accounts the payer paid for.
• The amount.

To edit an expense, you press the "Edit..." button, and edit the fields as neccessary.

To delete an expense, you select the expense you want to delete and press the "Delete" button.

You then specify the account that pays in the "Who Paid" field, and in the "Paid For" field you specify the account that receives the money.