JP2002007952A - Accounting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an accounting system suitable for the account business of a business body requiring the strict management of account data. SOLUTION: When a user enters dates, amounts of money, and business connections on a new data input page displayed at a Web browser and takes a transmission action by selecting remark items, input data are accumulated on the account database of a server computer in time series. The subjects corresponding to the selected remark items are automatically set by the Web browser.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an accounting system using a computer network.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An example of an accounting system using a computer network is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-274628. This system includes a database storing accounting processing data, a server computer having database management means for managing the database, a subscriber terminal connected to the server computer via a communication network, and an accounting processing terminal. A subscriber terminal is a terminal installed in a general company or office, and is obtained by inputting raw data such as a processing date, a summary, and an amount, and processing a processing menu and raw data by the input means. A display unit for displaying accounting data is provided. Raw data input from the subscriber terminal is sent to the server computer as accounting data, and stored in a database in chronological order. The accounting terminal is, for example, a terminal installed in an accounting firm or a tax accountant office,
A person with tax expertise can perform various operations (account adjustment, account adjustment, etc.) on accounting data stored in the database through the database management means of the server computer.
Reviewing journals, tallying for each account, etc.). In this system, it is recommended that the subscriber terminal be provided with a barcode reader in order to simplify the work of inputting raw data.

[0003]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]
Some people pay taxes in so-called white returns because their annual income is not very high. In this case, there is no need to maintain books and documents prescribed by the Tax Law, etc., so there is no need to strictly perform various operations on accounting data, such as adjusting accounts, reviewing journals, and summing up each account. . For such a business, the use of a large-scale system such as the above-described conventional system has almost no merit, and it is even disadvantageous in terms of cost.
The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide an accounting system suitable for accounting work of an entity in which strict management of accounting data is not required. Is to do.

[0004]

According to the present invention, there is provided an accounting system for storing accounting data, a server computer having management means for managing the database, and a network for data communication. An accounting system including a client computer connected to the server computer through the client computer, wherein the client computer has a data input unit for allowing a user to input basic data regarding a transaction;
Summary selection means for allowing a user to select a summary item corresponding to the transaction from a summary list, a subject display means for displaying a subject corresponding to the summary item selected by the summary selection means, and the basic data and the selected basic data. Data transmission means for transmitting accounting data including the identifier of the summary item to the server computer through the network is provided.

[0005]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An accounting system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an accounting system according to the present embodiment. The accounting system 1 according to the present embodiment includes a server computer 3 and a number of client computers 4 connected to a data communication network (for example, the Internet) 2.

[0006] The configuration of the server computer 3 will be described. The data storage unit 31 is configured by a storage device such as a fixed magnetic disk, in which various databases (member database, accounting database, summary database, subject database, etc.) are stored. Web server 3
Reference numeral 2 denotes a program for reading data stored in a file in the data storage unit 31 and returning the data to the client computer 4 in accordance with the contents of the HTTP request transmitted from the Web browser 43 via the network 2.
The page generation unit 33 is a program that generates Web page data in response to a request from the Web server 32. The data management unit 34 performs processing (such as reading, adding, editing, and deleting data) on various databases stored in the data storage unit 31 in response to a request from the page generation unit 33, and stores the resulting data in the page generation unit 33. Is a program that returns to

[0007] The configuration of the client computer 4 will be described. The client computer 4 is an input device 4
1 (keyboard, mouse, etc.), display device 42 (CRT,
LCD, etc.), on which the Web browser 43 operates. The Web browser 43 transmits an HTTP request corresponding to an operation performed by the user using the input device 41 to the Web server 32, and transmits the W request from the data returned from the Web server 32 in response to the request.
An eb page is generated and displayed on the display device 42. Web
The browser 43 is provided with a script execution function for executing a process described in a script described in a predetermined program language when data from the Web server 32 includes the script.

[0008] A processing procedure by the accounting system 1 will be described. First, a person who wishes to use the accounting system 1 completes the membership registration procedure in advance by a predetermined method (for example, online registration using the Internet, registration using a postcard or the like). The member database created in the data storage unit 31 records attribute information (name, address, and the like), a member ID, a password, and the like of a user (ie, a member) who has completed member registration.

[0009] The member transmits his / her member ID and password to the Web server 32 from a predetermined login page (not shown) using the Web browser 43 and is authenticated. After the authentication, the top page (not shown) of the accounting system 1 is displayed on the Web browser 43. The top page is provided with hyperlinks for calling Web pages corresponding to various functions provided by the system 1, such as a new data input page, an input data list page, and a settlement report output page.

[1] Input of New Data When a member clicks a link to a new data input page on the top page, the Web browser 43 sends a request to obtain a new data input page to the page generation unit 33 through the Web server 32. Page generation unit 33 receiving this request
Generates the data of the new data input page shown in FIG.
b Send to browser 43.

[0011] The data entry page includes a summary table 21 displaying accumulated income, accumulated expenses, and deducted profit calculated from data entered so far, an entry table 22 for entering new data, and an entry table 22. Clear button 23 for clearing all input data and input data We
A transmission button 24 for transmitting to the page generation unit 33 via the b server 32 is provided. The input table 22 is provided with five rows of input fields each having five fields corresponding to a transaction date, a transaction amount, a business partner name, an abstract, and a subject, respectively. And transmission is possible. It is needless to say that the number of rows in the input table 22 is not limited to 5 and may be increased or decreased as appropriate.

The input of data in the input table 22 is performed in the following procedure. The user selects the month (1-12) and day (1-31) of the transaction from the two selection lists provided in the date field, and inputs the transaction amount and the customer name in the amount field and the customer field, respectively. I do. Further, the user selects a description item most suitable for the contents of the transaction from the selection list of the description field. When the summary item is selected, the Web browser 43 sets the value of the selection list of the subject field so that the value of the subject field becomes the subject corresponding to the selected summary item. in this way,
In the present system 1, the user only needs to select a summary item, and a subject suitable for the summary is set as a value of the subject field. Not done. The automatic setting function of the subject by the Web browser 43 can be implemented by, for example, a script program.

The selection list of the summary items and the selection list of the subjects are created by the page generation unit 33 based on the summary database and the subject database stored in the data storage unit 31. FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the summary database, and FIG. 4 shows the configuration of the subject database. In the summary database, the description of the summary item and the subject ID are recorded with the summary ID as a primary key. The description of the summary item should be such that even those who do not have specialized knowledge of accounting can easily understand the contents (for example, "go out of work", "garage fee", etc.).
In the subject database, subject notations and tally categories are recorded using the subject ID as a primary key. The summary database includes a subject ID, which is a primary key of the subject database, as an external key, and thereby the summary items are associated with the subjects. Only one summary database and subject database may be prepared for all members, or a personal summary database and subject database may be prepared for each member.

After inputting data into the input table 22, the user clicks the send button 23, and the Web browser 4
3 transmits a data storage request to the Web server 32 together with the input data. Web server 32 receiving this request
Passes the input data to the page generation unit 33. The page generation unit 33 performs various checks on the received data, and if there is no problem, transfers the data to the data management unit 34 and instructs the data to be stored in the accounting database. The data management unit 34 writes the received data into the accounting database. FIG. 5 shows the configuration of the accounting database. When the writing of the data to the accounting database is completed, the page generation unit 33 generates the data of the page notifying the user of the completion of the data storage, and transmits the data via the Web server 32 to the Web.
Send to browser 43.

[2] Input Data List and Data Correction When the member clicks a link to the input data list page on the top page, the Web browser 43 obtains the input data list page to the page generation unit 33 through the Web server 32. Send request. Upon receiving this request, the page generation unit 33 reads out the input data from the accounting database of the member through the data management unit 34, and calculates the accumulated income and expenses and the deducted profit up to that time. Then, the page generation unit 33 generates the data of the input data list page including the calculation result table 61 and the input data list table 62 as shown in FIG. 6, and transmits the page data to the Web browser 43 through the Web server 32. Send to

The rightmost column 63 in the input data list of FIG. 6 is a check column for data correction. When the user checks the check box of the data line to be corrected and clicks a correction button 64 provided below the table 62, the We
The b browser 43 transmits a data correction request to the Web server 32 together with the data ID of the checked row. Upon receiving this request, the Web server 32 generates a page
To generate a data correction page. The data correction page has a configuration in which a data ID column is added to the input table 22 of the new data input page in FIG.

[3] Output of the Financial Statement When the member clicks the link to the output page of the financial statement on the top page, the Web browser 43 displays the Web server 32
To the page generation unit 33 through the request for obtaining the settlement report output page. Upon receiving this request, the page generation unit 33 reads the input data from the member's accounting database through the data management unit 34, and calculates the total amount of money for each subject. Then, the page generation unit 33 generates data of a settlement report output page including a list 71 of calculation results as shown in FIG.
To the Web browser 43 through

[0018]

As described above, in the accounting system according to the present invention, when the user inputs a date, an amount, and a business partner, selects a summary item and performs a transmission operation, the accounting database of the server computer is stored in the accounting database. The simple configuration in which the accounting data is accumulated in a time-series manner enables the present invention to be suitably applied particularly to accounting work of an enterprise in which strict management of accounting data is not required.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an accounting system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 New data entry page.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of an abstract database.

FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a subject database.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram of an accounting database.

FIG. 6 is an input data list page.

FIG. 7: Output page of financial statements.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Accounting system 2 ... Network (Internet) 3 ... Server computer (server) 31 ... Data storage part 32 ... Web server 33 ... Page generation part 34 ... Data management part 4 ... Client computer 43 ... Web browser

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An accounting system comprising: a database for storing accounting data; a server computer having management means for managing the database; and a client computer connected to the server computer via a data communication network. Data input means for inputting basic data relating to the transaction, a description selection means for allowing the user to select a description item corresponding to the transaction from a description list, and a subject corresponding to the description item selected by the description selection means. An accounting system, comprising: a subject display means for displaying; and a data transmission means for transmitting accounting data including the basic data and the identifier of the selected summary item to the server computer via the network.