These files have been inherited from Pocketinfo, reproduced by kind permission from Steve Litchfield of 3lib
Finance
Foreign expenses manager (Source: Jack Sheldon)
A small spreadsheet for maintaining travel expenses. The use of the "Lookup" function to calculate exchange rates provides much flexibility. Brief instructions are given at the bottom of the sheet.
Expense manager (Source: Phil Rosengarten)
Multi-currency expense record sheet, with local currency total.
Bank account manager (Source: Phil Rosengarten)
Transaction records and balance summaries for up to 3 accounts.
Dividends Calculator (Thanks to David Salgueiro)
Assists would-be contractors (mainly IT) to assess the financial implications of becoming a contractor with an own limited company. It can also be of use for basic Dividends and Salary calculations. (Added to Pocketinfo 11th October 1999)
Retirement financial planner (Thanks to Wayne Geary)
A guideline for financial planning towards retirement or other milestones. Enter data applicable to yourself in the left columns:
- bank account name/number details into column B,
- quantities of accounts/shares etc into column C,
- item values (price per share or account) into column D, and
- other details (ages, lump sums, interest/tax rates, etc) into column E.
You'll also enter typical interest rates, inflation rates, taxation rates, annual savings from salary while working, current cost of living, frequency for car and major white goods purchases and the frequency for major holidays. Your cash worth from your current age up until age 99 is then calculated. Usual disclaimers apply. (added to pocketinfo 9th August 1999)
Easy 'Euro' converter (Thanks to S. Vazzana)
Another easy converter to all currencies from the 'Euro'
'Euro' currency converter (Thanks to Michael Schober)
Easy converter to all currencies from the 'Euro'
Rate-per-period salary checker(Thanks to Dave A Kolmer)
Comparison of rate-per-period for two different base salaries
Business annual cashflow analysis
Month-by-month cashflow analysis based on projected receipts and disbursements
Weekly timesheet calculator (Thanks to Austin Mitchell)
Enter daily hours on each of up to 10 tasks and let the spreadsheet do the rest!
Contractor timesheet (Thanks to Sean Luke)
Daily and weekly totals, including VAT
Currency convertor (Source: Ian Hinton)
Currencies and rates in a many-to-many spreadsheet
Value Added Tax (VAT) inclusive/exclusive calculations (Source: Simon Williams)
Simple grid of calculations
London Stock codes(Thanks to Jason Wong)
Three letter codes for all companies and stocks listed on the London Stock Exchange (added to pocketinfo 8th April 1999)
Share summary analysis(Thanks to Raphael)
Logging of individual share summaries, with calculation of Net Profit and IRR
Simple share rolling analysis
Template for tracking a stock or share, with a 5 day rolling average flagging up good times to buy or sell
Amortization glossary (Thanks to Vojta)
Many mortgage-related and legal terms, with definitions
Car:
Daily business/private mileage logger (Thanks to Ben Cook)
Use a copy of this each month to keep complete control of your claimable business mileage
Vehicle economy
Miles per gallon (current and all-time averaged) calculations. Information is entered as vehicle mileage and fuel quantity in litres.
Formal
Copyright contacts (Thanks to: Martin White)
Contacts in the world of British copyright and intellectual property law (added to pocketinfo 7 Apr 99)
Trading terms (Thanks to: Wolf Hagen)
A dictionary of terms and abbreviations used in trading. It covers English, German, French and Spanish as well as some Incoterms (1990) in English and German.
ISO 14001/EMAS - EMS Preliminary review report, template (Thanks to: George Richardson)
Template to help your company complete an ISO 14001 environmental review
Doing Business:
Daily loggers (Thanks to Ken Wallace)
Daily loggers, for 1 2000, to log daily units of just about anything, with weekly totals, targets and variances. (Updated 24th Aug 1999)
Time management tips (Thanks to Glenn Davies)
A collection of time management tips picked up over the years. Many of the tips are very simple but putting a few of them into practice will save lots of time!
Vacation accrual (Thanks to Laurie Jane Kern)
Vacation logger, keeps track of balance of hours remaining and held over
Financial Times Top 500 companies(Thanks to Mark Anderson)
Listed in order, with many facts and figures
Decision-making spreadsheet (Thanks to David Salgueiro)
Decision-making aid. Enter factors, weightings and ratings - and get percentage scores for each choice. A Psion format example is also supplied below. (Updated 21 Apr 1999)
Six steps to a winning Business Plan (Thanks to: Thomas Heiden)
Gives an overview of how to develop a business plan.
Professional Business Plan template (Thanks to: Thomas Heiden)
A template for you to use in developing your own company business plan.
Little Book of Business Lessons (Thanks to: Richard Lyon)
"Never confuse a memo with reality". A database by Richard A Moran, adapted by Richard Lyon for the Psion. Lots of useful tips, hints and adages for the businessman.
Invoice management system
Track your company invoices with this spreadsheet. A cell at the top of the sheet tells you at any time how much is still outstanding (i.e. owed to your company).
Simple stock handling
Prototype stock-handling, with minimum levels and reorder quantities
Communication
Worldwide AT&T, MCI and Sprint access numbers (Thanks to Matt Podowitz)
Over three hundred international access numbers for holders of AT&T, MCI and Sprint calling cards. Fields contained are Country, Carrier, Access number and Notes (special dialling instructions and usage limitations). Added 22 Feb 1999
Worldwide AT&T Direct access numbers (Thanks to Joseph Schlosser)
Added to pocketinfo 7 Feb 1999
Telecoms achronyms
GRIC access points worldwide (Small version) (Thanks to David De Silva)
Internet access points worldwide which may be accessed by GRIC members. GRIC is a consortium of ISP's which allows users to travel the world but still using a local ISP to log-in to their home ISP
GSM roaming (Thanks to Dave van der Klink)
Countries, networks and numbers (for manual programming if needed), with extra info for Dutch users.
Common acronyms used in email
All those abbreviations spelled out in full!
British Telecom Chargecard international access codes
Computing
Research web sites(Thanks to: John Mitchell)
A starter database of useful business research web sites. Fields are: Name, URL, Category, Login, Password, Date formed, Founder, Notes. (added to pocketinfo 30th November 1999)
Internet Ports and Protocols (Thanks to: Graeme Findlay)
All the protocols and services listed in Internet RFC 1060 (plus a few others that aren't in there but are in general use). Fields are Service short name, Service port, Service long name, Service aliases, Service protocol, Protocol short name, Protocol number, Protocol long name, Protocol aliases and Description. (added to pocketinfo 13th Sept 1999)
"Netscape" safe color palette(Thanks to Gordon McGowan)
The "Netscape palette" hexidecimal color codes for Web developers. (added to pocketinfo 22 June 1999)
Emoticon dictionary
emoticon: n. a figure created with the symbols on a keyboard that is read with the head tilted to the left. Used to convey the spirit in which a line of text was typed. Also known as 'smileys'. (added to pocketinfo 16 Feb 1999)
Internet glossary (Thanks to Francis Reddy)
144 terms concerning the Internet and networking, from ARPAnet to X.400 (added to pocketinfo 16 Feb 1999)
Domain names(Thanks to: J McLaughlin)
All the generic and country-specific top level domain names
HTML tags (Thanks to: Igor Akaev)
HTML tag library, with options and brief descriptions