Percentage Calculations

I am currently keeping our church books on Excel but want to switch to
Access, which I have built other access data bases for other things which
worked well.
But, I am tring to build a data base for my church where a tithe amount is
imputted then the appropriate percentage of that amount would go to 6
differant accounts. It gets more complecated when I also need a way to put in
an "offering" to a particular account. Those accounts will need to be able to
know what is available, have money drawn from them for differant expenditures.
I can do this with an expression for each differant account but I cant
figure out how to add money dirrectly to one account or take money out of it.
fff

Book keeper in limbo,

I imagine you could have a Transactions table, with fields like this...

TransactionID (?AutoNumber)
MemberID (reference to the person contributing)
Type (e.g. tithe, offering, expenditure)
Account
Amount

With this model, it means that a tithe amount received would result in 6
records in this table, one for each of the split amounts for each
account. But you would certainly be able to use fairly simple queries
based on this table to provide account summaries, balances, summaries
per member, etc. You would of course need to build some suitable forms
for the user-friendly entry/editing of this data.

--
Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP


Book keeper in limbo wrote:
I am currently keeping our church books on Excel but want to switch to
Access, which I have built other access data bases for other things which
worked well.
But, I am tring to build a data base for my church where a tithe amount is
imputted then the appropriate percentage of that amount would go to 6
differant accounts. It gets more complecated when I also need a way to put in
an "offering" to a particular account. Those accounts will need to be able to
know what is available, have money drawn from them for differant expenditures.
I can do this with an expression for each differant account but I cant
figure out how to add money dirrectly to one account or take money out of it.
fff