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Data Processing: Financial, Business Practice, Management, Or Cost/price Determination > Automated Electrical Financial Or Business Practice Or Management Arrangement > Accounting AccountingAccounting patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/09/06 - 20060253349 - Electronic transmission and tracking of deposit information A cash control system for a business establishment having one or more cash registers includes a safe assembly. The safe assembly includes a safe for securing cash and a currency reader coupled to the safe for determining the amount of cash received in the safe. A central control unit is ... 11/02/06 - 20060247987 - Methods and apparatus for managing cash flow A method and product for budgeting and/or managing cash flow includes entry of company information, assumptions, debt schedule, borrower's certificate and monthly data into a software program. The assumptions include cash on hand, cash receipts and cash paid out, among others. The information entered into the software is manipulated and ... 10/26/06 - 20060242034 - Electronic account book generating system and method An electronic account book generating method for providing a user at a terminal device to connect to the generating system through a network to control import/export operation, thereby accelerating the speed of declaration and upgrading the ability of keeping data of the import/export commodities and materials, the method comprising the ... 10/19/06 - 20060235775 - System and method for making a payment from a financial account A system and method of collecting payments facilitates authorized generation of a payment order. In a preferred embodiment, the automated system has a simple input screen which receives the necessary information for generation of the payment order, which may be read to the system operator over the telephone by the ... 10/19/06 - 20060235774 - System and method for collecting operational loss data for managing operational risk A computer-based system and method, computer readable medium comprising software and a data structure for associating general ledger transactions representing operational losses with operational loss information, such as an operational loss event. ... 10/19/06 - 20060235773 - Posting adjustments following execution of a period-end closing process An accounting system is disclosed that provides support for posting transactions into historical accounting periods, including periods that pre-date the most recent historical period. In one embodiment, when such a transaction has been posted, corresponding closing entries are generated in order to update at least one permanent account (e.g., a ... 10/05/06 - 20060224476 - Long distance trading system The invention relates to a long distance trading system for carrying out a transaction via a platform between a seller and a buyer, wherein the seller and the buyer are far away from each other. The long distance trading system not only protects the seller of the goods by holding ... 10/05/06 - 20060224475 - Method and system for defining data in a transaction A method and system for defining data in a transaction for an accounting system. A data structure includes a transaction category entity defining an area in a business where transactions occur. The data structure also includes a transaction type entity having an association with the transaction category entity and defining ... 10/05/06 - 20060224474 - Dimension sets A computer-implemented accounting system provides user-definable transaction dimensions. An enterprise having a plurality of sub-units can define sets of transaction dimensions for use by the sub-units. Each sub-unit can specify a set defined by the enterprise for use and the display order for the set. A computer implemented method is ... 10/05/06 - 20060224473 - Adjustments to relational chart of accounts A computer-readable medium and a computer implemented method to enable a computer to provide a relational chart of accounts with an underlying data support scheme that allows for an undetermined number of dimensions to be used with an account. Dimensions can be added or removed without having to perform a ... 09/28/06 - 20060218059 - System, method, and computer program product for byte-based utility computing pricing A system, method, and computer program product for byte-based utility computing pricing. This embodiment provides a unified pricing unit for storage, network transport, and processing power, enabling the provider to efficiently and effectively charge the consumer for use of computing power and resources. ... 08/31/06 - 20060195372 - Automatic transfer of balance between balance sheet accounts A method of recording financial data is provided. The method includes establishing a first balance sheet account having a balance. The first balance sheet account is associated with a second balance sheet account. The method further includes automatically transferring the balance on the first balance sheet account to the second ... 08/24/06 - 20060190367 - Process for determining object level profitability A process for determining object level profitability includes the steps of (1) preparing information to be accessed electronically, (2) establishing rules for processing the prepared information, (3) calculating at least one marginal value of profit using established rules as applied to a selected set of prepared information, (4) calculating a ... 08/24/06 - 20060190366 - Preview period-end closing An accounting system is disclosed that provides support for an ability to preview a period-end closing process. When a preview option is activated, the system is configured to provide a view of transactions that would be generated if the period-end closing process were to be carried out. During the preview, ... 08/24/06 - 20060190365 - Electronically assisted enterprise journal system A method for processing accounting data of an enterprise is provided. The method includes entering accounting data entries associated with one or more accounts in memory of an interactive system, the interactive system capable of communicating with a batch system. At least some of the accounting data entries are copied ... 08/17/06 - 20060184433 - Method or application for generating postings based on transformation rules and posting classes An application or method of populating a transaction from a document using procedures associated with document type. In the embodiments described, the application or method posts a financial transaction from a financial document, such as a sales invoice or vendor bill to a financial account, such as A/R or COGS. ... 08/10/06 - 20060178960 - Process for determining object level profitability A process for determining object level profitability includes the steps of (1) preparing information to be accessed electronically, (2) establishing rules for processing the prepared information, (3) calculating at least one marginal value of profit using established rules as applied to a selected set of prepared information, (4) calculating a ... 08/10/06 - 20060178959 - System and method for controlling information flow in a revenue tracking system A mechanism and method for selectively excluding at least part of the information, such as, for example, revenue-related information, generated by one or more particular terminals or terminal types, or subsets of terminals or terminal types, from being considered or otherwise processed by revenue tracking software. More specifically, the present ... 08/10/06 - 20060178958 - Systems and methods for data processing Systems and methods are provided for data processing. In one implementation, a data processing system includes storage means for storing sets of account identifiers, each of the sets of account identifiers being assigned a set of control parameters. The data processing system may also include an account management system that ... 08/10/06 - 20060178957 - Commercial market determination and forecasting system and method Methods and apparatus for determining a value of a commercial market that can be supported by an electronic payment solution, forecasting a growth of the commercial market, and using the commercial expenditure value are disclosed. The value of the commercial market can be estimated using auditable economic data that forms ... 08/10/06 - 20060178956 - Method for the automatic integrated filing of records during recording of business events Methods and systems are provided for automatically filing records concerning business events in a computer system so that the records are accessible to a business application. An identification code is assigned to a business event having a data structure that is represented in the computer system. At least one set ... 08/03/06 - 20060173758 - System and method for providing subscribed applications on wireless devices over a wireless network A system and method for the provision of downloadable subscription-based software applications to one or more wireless devices where the applications are downloadable from one or more application download servers across a wireless network. An accounting module receives subscription-based application download data from the one or more application download servers ... 07/27/06 - 20060167771 - Financial event software engine A Software Engine that allows users to record accounting transactions in a double-entry bookkeeping system, without knowing which accounts to debit and credit. Each practical debit/credit combination is summarized by a single Financial Event Type. The potential for thousands of these Financial Event Types is made manageable by the Software ... 07/13/06 - 20060155617 - Money management education system, apparatus and method A money management training system for children or young adults providing age-appropriate training in money management skills and concepts in which a proportion of real, non-essential spending for the benefit of the child or young adult is provided to them on a periodic basis for their management and is allocated ... 07/13/06 - 20060155616 - Online reduction in repair and maintenance costs The present invention provides an automated invoice vetting, negotiation and payment system that automatically collects goods and labors hour data, sets a reasonable pricing structure for each such good and service, dynamically analyzes the price data to adjust for market changes and provides a automatic negotiation and settlement feature for ... 07/06/06 - 20060149643 - Automatic business date determination systems and methods Systems, methods, and computer program products consistent with the invention provide automatic determination of a date, such as the posting date, associated with a business document or business data that is entering into a data processing system, such as a financial, accounting, or ERP data processing system. For example, a ... 06/08/06 - 20060122918 - Method and apparatus for testing automated valuation models A method and apparatus for real time testing of automated valuation models using various indicators of accuracy. These indicators are then weighted according to their value as indicators of accuracy using individualized weighting factors or an equation. A ranking is then computed based upon the factors and their weights. This ... 06/01/06 - 20060116938 - Method for the electronic payment of a merchandise or service by using a mobile radio network, and arrangement for carrying out said method The invention relates to a method allowing a client to electronically pay at least a minimal amount for a merchandise or service to a retailer by using a data network and/or telecommunication network with the aid of an accounting system server. An unambiguous process identifier is generated for the payment ... 05/18/06 - 20060106688 - Program interface for a business management application and an accounting application A program interface which provides access from a business management application to an accounting application to share account information. As described in illustrative embodiments, the system includes an interface module to instantiate and invoke an interface from the business management application to generate an accounting record from an opportunity or ... 05/18/06 - 20060106687 - Modified cash-basis specifications and grid A method of automatically converting from accrual based accounting to cash basis accounting using a computer is disclosed. The method may include reviewing an entry in a general ledger, determining whether an entry in the general ledger is for a transaction between general ledger accounts that are treated differently in ... 05/18/06 - 20060106686 - Audit procedures and audit steps An audit system includes a library of controls adapted to mitigate risks. A library of audit procedures is associated with the set of risk controls. Each audit procedure includes one or more actions that evaluate the effectiveness of an associated control. The audit system includes project templates for performing audit ... 05/04/06 - 20060095350 - Funds collection tools and techniques Tax collection tools and techniques automatically and electronically separate tax amounts from other funds in a commercial transaction, and divert the collected tax into a holding fund. The holding fund bears income, at little or no risk. Funds collected are tracked, as are their payment due dates, and tax payments ... 04/27/06 - 20060089889 - System for visualizing financial data A system for visualizing financial data of an organization comprises a database for storing and processing the financial data, a dynamic rules based engine, a graphical interface for depicting the financial data as instruments that are part of an instrument panel within a vehicle, such as an airplane, and a ... 04/20/06 - 20060085302 - Flexible cost and revenue allocation for service orders A method and system handles cost and revenue allocation for service orders. For a service order, there is allowed to be created planned rules for allocation of costs to one or more service providers and for allocation of expected revenues to be received from one or more service receivers, which ... 04/20/06 - 20060085301 - System and method of cost distribution and invoice management for products having time-based benefits The invention provides a method, system and machine readable program for managing cost distribution. The method, system and machine readable program are each configured to receive information relating to the total cost of a product and generate a multiple cost structure for the product by generating an acquisition cost of ... 04/20/06 - 20060085300 - Systems and methods for auctioning government items Systems and methods to support an electronic market place include a communication network to communicate purchase requests; one or more buyers coupled to the network to issue a purchase order specifying items from two or more suppliers; and a server coupled to the network to receive the purchase order, the ... 04/06/06 - 20060074779 - Accounting and account reconciliating system An accounting and reconciliation system includes a seller terminal that receives credit data guaranteeing payment, and payment data. A buyer terminal for a buyer sends purchase request data containing transaction information which specifies purchase transaction conditions. A reconciliation unit mediates a purchase transaction between the buyer and the seller in ... 03/02/06 - 20060047588 - Cash flow projection tool A method of projecting cash flow is disclosed which may include the steps of displaying a position date at which a cash flow position is to be calculated, displaying a beginning cash balance total amount as of the position date, displaying a forecast sales total amount as of the position ... 02/23/06 - 20060041488 - Method and system for migrating messaging accounts between vendors A method and system for providing messaging services to subscribers. The services are provided such that message accounts can be migrated from one vendor to another. Service data relating to performance, costs, and other factors reflective of the vendors servicing of the messaging accounts is tracked and monitored for use ... 02/23/06 - 20060041487 - System and method for managing account receivables A system for managing account receivables is provided. The system comprises a rules module or engine for receiving at least one encounter from a first party and for assessing the at least one encounter based on rules associated with a payer; and a transactions module or engine for outputting at ... 02/16/06 - 20060036519 - Method and system for sales and use tax administration allowing for online and real-time compliance monitoring and assurance The present invention provides a method and system for sales and use tax administration comprising the steps of: 1. Transferring sales and use tax rates in electronic form into a business' accounting system; 2. Reconciling a business'a. Sales and use tax obligation based on the rates transferred in step 1, ... 02/16/06 - 20060036518 - Methods and apparatus for performing resource tracking and accounting at an end node Utilization of resources used to provide a service, and/or costs associated with providing system resources for a service, are tracked in a system where the available resources vary depending on a variety of conditions including resource utilization by other users. The methods are well suited for systems such as mobile ... 02/02/06 - 20060026082 - Method for processing account information using network The present invention relates to an accounting information processing method using a wireless communication network, and in particular to an accounting information process method using a wired communication network which is capable of classifying an accounting information input work into a work which may need an accounting knowledge and a ... 01/19/06 - 20060015418 - Enhanced trade compliance system: audit processing, payment balancing process and amendment processing Methods and systems for auditing invoice and payment records are disclosed. A computer system may receive a plurality of invoices and payment records, compare one of the invoices to a matching one of the payment records to identify a discrepancy between the invoice and the payment record, calculate an error ... 01/12/06 - 20060010049 - Regulatory auditing methods and systems Techniques for conducting a regulatory audit are described. A computerized audit-administrator is coupled to one or more terminals located at various sites via a network, such as the Internet. Accordingly, the audit-administrator can coordinate a regulatory audit having one or more questionnaires to one or more operators located at the ... 01/12/06 - 20060010048 - Flexible assignment scheme for financial statement items in an automated accounting system An automated accounting and reporting system supports flexible assignments of accounting objects to financial statements. At a reporting time, financial statement items may be generated from accounting objects by surveying the stored accounting objects and copying and aggregating key figures from the accounting object to the financial statement items. The ... 01/12/06 - 20060010047 - Sarbanes-oxley anonymous reporting system This invention relates to information escrow and anonymous reporting systems and methods, but more specifically, to an independent information storage and retrieval system that escrows information anonymously reported under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The present invention aims to provide public companies with a system and method to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley ... 12/29/05 - 20050289026 - Online revenue sharing Online billing includes determining if a third party referred an online buyer of a good not requiring physical delivery to an online seller of the good not requiring physical delivery and apportioning revenue from sale of the good not requiring physical delivery between the online seller and, if a third ... 12/29/05 - 20050289025 - System and method for expense management A method for expense management. An expense data record is retrieved from a trusted source and two or more sub-transactions are identified. The expense data record is then added to an expense report as two or more expense items corresponding to the two or more sub-transactions. ... 12/29/05 - 20050289024 - Automated transaction accounting processing engine and approach Accounting data is classified to facilitate transaction processing and management. According to an example embodiment, data based rules are implemented for classifying transaction-related data into accounting categories. Accounting information is processed as a function of the data based rules and accordingly classified. This approach involves, for example, the identification of ... 12/29/05 - 20050289023 - Transaction accounting payment and classification system and approach Accounting data is classified to facilitate transaction processing and management. According to an example embodiment, data based rules are implemented for classifying transaction-related data into accounting categories. Accounting information is processed as a function of the data based rules and accordingly automatically classified. This approach involves, for example, the identification ... 12/22/05 - 20050283413 - Unified antitrust analysis Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 USC § 18, prohibits mergers that substantially lessen competition, which has generally been interpreted to prohibit mergers that reduce consumer welfare. Determining whether consumer welfare is reduced in any particular market requires a balancing of the procompetitive and anticompetitive effects of the transaction. ... 12/15/05 - 20050278232 - Invoice transaction lifecycle software The invoice transaction lifecycle software is a snap-in for a customer relationship management (CRM) software package that includes full invoice transaction lifecycle processing, allowing customer request initiation, fulfillment, accounting, and completion to be performed through a common single user interface. The invoice transaction lifecycle software employs a program and database ... 12/08/05 - 20050273403 - System and method for document processing operation accounting A system and method for accounting for document processing operations. Notification data is received from a networked document processing device, which indicates the presence on the network of the document processing device. Accounting data is then communicated to the networked document processing device in response to the notification data. The ... 12/08/05 - 20050273402 - Method for allocating financial values across multiple accounts using precise values A method for allocating financial statement values across multiple accounts using precise values is provided. The method creates an n×m array of rounded allocation values, which are appropriately scaled according to share values for each account. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method generates rounded allocation values ... 12/01/05 - 20050267825 - Systems and methods for creating a database for accounting purposes A database is created for accounting purposes, which can be used to prepare financial statements according to various statutory accounting principles. According to one method, document data records are saved from posting documents to a document database. The document data records include a document header and a data part. The ... 12/01/05 - 20050267824 - Matching resources of a securities research department to accounts of the department Systems and methods for allocating limited resources of a securities research department to accounts of the department are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the system includes an account scoring module and a resource matching module. The account scoring module is for generating a score for each account, and the resource ... 12/01/05 - 20050267823 - Balance processor for automated accounting system employing merging and consistency checks A balance processor is provided in an automated multi-protocol accounting system. Given accounting objects generated according to a first accounting system, the balance processor generates new accounting objects that represent underlying transactions according to requirements of a second accounting system. This permits the system to reuse the first accounting system ... 11/24/05 - 20050261994 - Systems and methods for inserting active sale listings as advertisements into a pending buyer presentation A system and method for enabling sellers to have an automatically created advertising message placed into a pending presentation opportunity such as an email or web page targeted to a known buyer based on matching seller specific parameters to known buyer attributes. The system also creates a promotional offer to ... 11/17/05 - 20050256789 - Real-time consolidated accounting systems and real-time consolidated accounting program The invention provides a real-time consolidated accounting system, by which consolidated accounting processing of the business group can be performed more accurately, and by which the consolidated financial position at any point in time can be grasped regardless of the closing date. When individual journal data, that corresponds to individual ... 11/03/05 - 20050246252 - Method and apparatus for new accounts program A method for opening an on-line brokerage account includes the steps of opening an on-line brokerage account for a user based on account information received from the user, the on-line brokerage account having one or more restrictions, generating an application based on the account information; requesting that the user submit ... 11/03/05 - 20050246251 - Method and system for automated delivery-versus-payment settlements The present invention provides an automated settlement system and method for receiving appropriate information, monitoring and controlling the timely interaction between the participants to settle trade and to guarantee the irrevocable and inseparable exchange of cash against securities. Two market participants which have agreed to exchange securities against cash forward ... 11/03/05 - 20050246250 - Accounting system An accounting system with pre-configured client modules. Each of the modules has interface forms for entering transaction records, pre-assigned transaction category codes stored on a storage medium, code selectors for selecting a pre-assigned category code to associate with a transaction record, and a client chart of accounts for selection of ... 10/27/05 - 20050240500 - Systems and methods for improving investing Users of a simulator gain skills for investing using a simulator. The simulator simulates a business system that conducts a market transaction. The simulator selects a set of factors from a plurality of sets; selects a current factor from the selected set; and determines a price in accordance with the ... 10/20/05 - 20050234787 - Enterprise service architecture platform architecture for multi-application computer system Centralized process context and information context are provided for a computer system having an enterprise service architecture platform. The process context is a centrally accessible object storing and providing status data generated during performance of a process flow. The process context permits firm personnel to review performance of the process ... 10/20/05 - 20050234786 - General ledger maintenance in an inventory accounting system In a method of maintaining a general ledger and a computerized inventory accounting system utilizing a perpetual average inventory valuation, an inventory sales transaction is posted to the general ledger having a first amount that corresponds to a first rate for items in inventory. Next, an inventory purchase transaction is ... 10/13/05 - 20050228729 - System and method for analyzing tax avoidance A system and method are provided for analyzing tax avoidance of a taxpaying entity. A taxpaying entity's financial information may be analyzed and used to compute a set of one or more financial ratios based at least in part on the entity's return on assets, capital, sales, and/or operating expenses. ... 10/13/05 - 20050228728 - Extraction, transformation and loading designer module of a computerized financial system An extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) designer module of a computerized financial system that is used to configure an ETL package for loading data elements from a financial table of a financial database into a reporter table in accordance with a predefined format. The ETL designer module includes a transformation ... 10/13/05 - 20050228727 - Method and apparatus for accommodating quality review in an automated account statement generation process A computer-implemented quality review process is introduced in which account statements may be individually selected from a batch printing run. Selected statements may then be viewed, edited, approved and released for printing. Account statements may also be unapproved, unreleased, purged or regenerated after one or more reviews are conducted. The ... 10/06/05 - 20050222923 - Disbursement system An internet based disbursement system allows all interested parties to a project contract, including, in the case of a construction project, the buyer, lender, disbursing agent, title company, and general contractor, to follow the progress of the project and separate tasks making up the project as well as the disbursement ... 10/06/05 - 20050222922 - Method for calculating ibnp health reserves with low variance The present invention is a method and system for estimating liability reserve amounts for incurred but not yet paid (EBNP) insurance claims by means of projecting paid claims (either gross or per exposure) by lag time based on adjusted average monthly paid amounts in historical data. Two versions of this ... 09/29/05 - 20050216378 - Method and apparatus for mapping dimension-based accounting entries to allow segment-based reporting A method and apparatus are provided for mapping dimension-based financial data to allow segment-based reporting. The method includes selecting a set of dimensions from the dimension-based accounting data and defining an order for the selected dimensions to define a segment-based account code structure. The segment-based account code structure and the ... 09/29/05 - 20050216377 - Method for transferring user data objects Disclosed is a method for transferring user data objects, wherein a data providing component provides user data objects. According to the method, the data providing components are called up by a first telecommunication device in order to transfer a selection of certain user data objects to a second telecommunication device. ... 09/29/05 - 20050216376 - System for managing control codes System (1; 10) for managing control codes, comprising a database (2), interface means (3) for receiving a telematic communication from a user, means (4) for automatically identifying the user's telematic address, means (5) for automatically acquiring a control code, recording means (6; 60), apt to record data matching the control ... 09/22/05 - 20050209938 - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for providing financial accounts with conditions Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for providing a benefit credit card products to customers are disclosed. A financial account provider provides a consumer with a benefit financial account that having conditions associated with it to be used to compare against purchase transactions. The financial account provider applying different account ... 09/22/05 - 20050209937 - Methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing web-based reporting services for telecommunications entities Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing web-based reporting services to a telecommunications entity. The method includes providing a user interface to a client system in response to a request for a report which includes a report type. A requester is provided with a template and ... 09/15/05 - 20050203815 - Trust administration system and methods of use and doing business An automated trust administration system and method of doing business. The trust administration system and method includes the ability to automatedly maintain trust asset data and update, revise, or transfer the data, including among one or more trusts, by ledger adjustment and verification. The system can automatedly issue third party ... 09/15/05 - 20050203814 - Litigation cost management system The litigation cost management system (FIG. 1) provides modules for outlining the process of litigation (12), establishing pricing variables to each step of the litigation (14), all at the outset of the case. A case budget (16) is then generated and the case is managed by outside counsel based upon ... 09/08/05 - 20050197932 - Method for displaying accumulated interest A computer-implemented method for displaying the amount of interest that has accumulated on an account since a predetermined time in the past is provided. The method includes the steps of: selecting an account; calculating the amount of interest accumulated on said account since a predetermined time in the past; displaying ... 09/08/05 - 20050197931 - System, apparatus and method for standardized financial reporting Standardized financial reports are automatically generated from company financial reports using a taxonomy library that maps company-specific terms to corresponding standard terms. Line items in the standardized financial reports include standardized terms derived from company-specific terms in the company financial report as well as corresponding financial information obtained from the ... 09/01/05 - 20050192876 - Software application for teaching cost accounting A software application teaches cost accounting using a simplified cost system. The main screen of the software application is a schematic flowchart of inventory-related accounts and their supporting liability accounts. Each account is displayed in an X configuration. Each account is related to at least one other account on the ... 09/01/05 - 20050192875 - Methods and systems for exercising stock options Methods and corresponding systems are provided for exercising employee stock options between an employee and a company. The stock option exercise generally includes the steps of establishing a plurality of escrow accounts including a company escrow account, a third party escrow account, and an employee escrow account, receiving notice of ... 09/01/05 - 20050192874 - System for maintaining party and communication point data According to one embodiment of the invention, an architecture is provided for a data processing system that processes data for a service provider itself or a client of a service provider as in the case of a third party processor. The elements of the architecture can be managed separately. For ... 08/18/05 - 20050182699 - Partial waiver of copyright pursuant to 37 c.f.r.§ 1.71 A method and system for budgeting is provided that includes: providing, on a networked computer, a worksheet including an arrangement of a funds total, an expenditure, a maximizable cost, and a cumulative cost; determining the funds total from at least an income amount; identifying the expenditure representing a predetermined amount; ... 08/18/05 - 20050182698 - Report generation and distribution system and method for a time and attendance recording system A computer system records when employees enter and exit a workplace, thereby producing time and attendance data for each employee. Each supervisor is able to configure computer generated reports that contain designated information about the employees for whom a respective supervisor is responsible. A separate summary data file stores report ... 08/11/05 - 20050177475 - Method for accessing an account in an account management device The invention relates to a method for accessing an account in an account manager device, where the method involves the following method taking place when a billing request arises which relates to a first sum value in the account. An access device reads a second sum value, which is buffer-stored ... 08/11/05 - 20050177474 - Method and apparatus for price setting The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for setting a selling price of each of a plurality of items to be subsequently offered for sale to a plurality of prospective purchasers, the method including: accepting a plurality of expressions of interest in the items, each of the expressions ... 08/11/05 - 20050177473 - Process for incorporation of exchange traded portfolios (a.k.a. exchange traded funds) into life insurance or annuity policies with an optional principal protection feature A process for Incorporation of Exchange Traded Portfolios (a.k.a. Exchange Traded Funds) Into Life Insurance or Annuities with an Optional Principal Protection Feature with the steps of: Establishing variable life insurance and /or annuity products; Make available the various ETF's instead of or in addition to mutual funds; and the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177472 - Method and system for backfilling transactions in an account A financial data management application sets up a placeholder entry for entered current holdings information in which all the historical transactions that led to the current holdings have not been accounted for. Backfill transactions may be entered later on to update the placeholder entry with all or part of the ... 08/11/05 - 20050177471 - Joint venture accounting method and system Embodiments of the present invention relate to software for adjusting the accounting records of a business venture to reflect a new allocation of shares in the venture among a plurality of entities. ... 08/11/05 - 20050177470 - Global account reconciliation tool A global reconciliation software tool is provided to standardize reconciliation processes across various corporate lines of business. The reconciliation tool provides standard templates for entering transaction and account data. In this manner, open accounting items are more readily identified and reconciled. The software tool includes a plurality of components allowing ... 08/04/05 - 20050171876 - Wireless asset management system The present invention relates to a wireless asset management system method for the identification, monitoring, and tracking of people or objects. More specifically the invention relates to a wireless data gathering network, whereby the data is processed and delivered to a predetermined number of devices for visual or automated reading. ... 08/04/05 - 20050171875 - System and method for synchronizing commitment updates A method and system for maintaining consistency of financial commitment information across a plurality of financial systems. According to one embodiment, a contract accounting system receives from a billing system a commitment update posting a liability of a business partner, the liability having been and remaining posted to a credit ... 08/04/05 - 20050171874 - System and method for apportioning commitment updates A method and system for apportioning financial commitment updates of business partners. According to one embodiment, a contract accounting system receives through a user interface criteria for selecting a subset of business partners whose financial commitments are to be updated, calculates an updated financial commitment of each of the subset ... 08/04/05 - 20050171873 - On demand accrual system and method A system and method for posting tracking accrued revenue and costs. The system includes an accrual system that causes each inputted accrual event to be posted at the same time (e.g., on the same day) that the accrual event was received; and a reversal system that, on demand (e.g., daily), ... 07/28/05 - 20050165664 - Electronic accounting-document system, electronic accounting-document processing method, accounting-document creation unit, and accounting-document processing unit An electronic accounting-document system, an electronic accounting-document processing method, an accounting-document creation unit and an accounting-document processing unit are provided in which the time that is taken to transmit and process accounting-document data can be shortened. An accounting-document creation section creates accounting-document data on an accounting document; an accounting-document data ... 07/21/05 - 20050160017 - An apparatus for consistent linking of rates of return Available accounting, trading, investment performance measurement and analytical systems and apparatuses calculate precise rate of return for a single period. An apparatus for consistent linking calculates precise overall rate of return from rates of return of smaller periods composing the overall period. It can be used for calculating rate of ... 07/14/05 - 20050154657 - Condition scoring for a property appraisal system An appraisal system obtains reliable information relating to subjective property characteristics of a property and quantifies the contributions of such subjective characteristics on the value of the property. An appraiser enters subjective property information regarding a subject property into the appraisal system, which evaluates other properties using property data obtained ... 07/14/05 - 20050154656 - Ranking comparable properties for appraisal In support of an appraisal process, comparable properties are ranked using an algorithmic approach that considers multiple property characteristics of multiple properties to find and order the most similar properties to a subject property. In one implementation, a deterministic linear dissimilarity algorithm is used to compare multiple characteristics of multiple ... 07/14/05 - 20050154655 - System and method for the sale of franchise real estate A method and system for the sale of franchise real estate is provided in which characteristic data corresponding to the characteristics of a franchise real estate is stored in a system server. The system server is accessed from remote computers. A user accesses the system server to obtain stored characteristic ... 07/14/05 - 20050154654 - Apparatus and method for automatically improving a set of initial return on investment calculator templates A method for updating the return on investment (ROI) templates used by business consultants. The present invention comprises a Template Evaluation Program (TEP) and a Template Analysis Program (TAP). The TEP compares the default template to the templates modified by the consultants for the customer's ROI analysis and assigns an ... 07/07/05 - 20050149415 - Method and system for processing transactions The present invention discloses a system and method for processing business transactions between trading partners using a central interactive platform. The processing may include comparing purchase order data and invoice data to identify matching information and non-matching information. If the information matches, the invoices are processed for payment. If the ... 06/30/05 - 20050144097 - Method and apparatus for accelerated payment of client costs According to one example embodiment, the daily (business days for accelerated) operation of a collection server provides for nightly downloads of out-of-pocket cost file from accounting system, wherein this file shows all out-of-pocket costs entered into the accounting system in the prior period (e.g. day) that are going to be ... 06/30/05 - 20050144096 - Financial visualization and analysis systems A method and system of financial analysis for use by trained and untrained users which provides improved visualization, understanding, and analysis of companies' financial performances. Particularly, it allows the end user to prepare a sophisticated financial analysis by creating an effective bridge between financial analysis and the underlying financial information. ... 06/30/05 - 20050144095 - Multiple-platform estimating and automatic quoting for network-based parts resale A part location system is described that utilizes computer-based techniques for bringing together repair facilities and suppliers to increase the efficiency of locating recycled, used or aftermarket parts using a computer network, such as the Internet. The part location system receives an electronic estimate from one of the repair facilities, ... 06/23/05 - 20050137947 - Enterprise management application providing availability control checks on revenue budgets A budgetary control system limits revenue generating transactions that may be entered in an enterprise management system. When a new revenue posting is proposed to the system, various AVC rules are evaluated. The evaluation compares the revenue posting against predetermined budgetary limits. The AVC rules may address various nodes within ... 06/23/05 - 20050137946 - Use of separate rib ledgers in a computerized enterprise resource planning system Enterprise management applications perform a “revenues increasing the budget” (RIB) operation on general ledger data and store elements of the general ledger data that have a RIB effect in another ledger, called the “RIB ledger”. RIB ledgers may include sets of RIB rules, storage for documents reflecting all relevant delta ... 06/16/05 - 20050131782 - Method of reposting transactional documents A method of modifying an original transaction document of a computerized accounting system that includes a general ledger having original transaction postings corresponding to transactions contained in the original transaction document, a new transaction document is generated in response to a command to edit the original transaction document. Next, the ... 06/16/05 - 20050131781 - System and method for auditing A Computer-implemented system and method for auditing that allows an auditor to comment on responses made by an audited entity. The comments are classified according to the subject matter and content of the comment for use in processing and monitoring correction of the comment. ... 06/16/05 - 20050131780 - Computer system for managing accounting data The object of the invention id to provide a computer system for managing accounting data which avoids the aforementioned paper handling for the benefit of the receiver of invoices. The system aims at the automation of the treatment of the invoices, credit notes or delivery notes in view of facilitating ... 06/09/05 - 20050125319 - Methods and systems for validating the authority of the holder of a digital certificate issued by a certificate authority A method for a financial services provider to securely process corporate payment requests includes a step of issuing a primary digital certificate to a primary certificate holder of a corporation. The primary certificate authorizes the primary certificate holder to designate a plurality of holders of secondary digital certificates that are ... 06/09/05 - 20050125318 - Methods and systems for accurately representing corporate financial results in light of equity-based compensation and contingent transactions A method to appropriately account for employee stock options is disclosed. The method is designed to handle all types of equity-based compensation. The current prior-art paradigm of expensing equity-based compensation is shown to be misguided, thus potentially misleading investors. Besides correctly accounting for equity-based compensation, the invention offers a simplier, ... 06/09/05 - 20050125317 - Method and apparatus for automatically reloading a stored value card To facilitate the sale of merchandise using a stored value card (SVC), a method and system are provided to automatically reload an SVC in accordance with automatic reload preferences associated with the SVC account. The preferences include the pre-authorized reload amount, payment method, and the circumstances under which to automatically ... 06/09/05 - 20050125316 - Method for creating and delivering customized compliance information A method and system to create personalized investor information packages, based on investor information, to be delivered to the investor to satisfy both compliance regulations and investor preferences. The method and system may deliver information in a paper or electronic format. ... 06/09/05 - 20050125315 - System for account management and method therefor An account management server stores and operates on a plurality of accounts. Each account includes account user information and an account balance representing a measurement of communication time. The account manager is configured to transfer of at least a portion of an account balance associated with a first account to ... 06/09/05 - 20050125314 - Resource usage metering of network services Process accounting information is recorded, together with service request logs written by e-service applications. These two sets of information are aggregated and correlated, to generate usage metrics relating to resource usage for individual service requests. Such per-request information can be used as a basis for charging users making such requests. ... 06/02/05 - 20050119952 - Expense receipt diary with adhesive strips An expense receipt diary of a notebook-type including a front cover, a back cover, and a plurality of interior pages, secured together by binding on one side. The front of each interior page includes a mounting area that contains a plurality of adhesive strips. Each strip is comprised of a ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |