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Revision as of 19:42, 25 March 2014

Title of script : Overview of ABT


Author: Trupti Rajesh Kini


Keywords: Applications, Features, Installation, ABT, Accounting, free and open source software, SD card, NGO, Profit making, Proxy, abt.img, ABT.apk


Visual Cue
Narration
Slide 1 Hello and welcome to this series of spoken tutorials on Aakash Business Tool i.e. ABT
Slide 2

Learning Objectives

This tutorial will give you an introduction to ABT.

We will also see

  • some applications of ABT
  • some features of ABT.

And learn how to install ABT on an Android tablet.

Slide 3

System Requirements

To record this tutorial, I am using
  • ABT 1.0
  • Android 4.2 i.e Jelly Bean and
  • Aakash Tablet

You can use any Rooted Tablet of your choice.

To install ABT on your tablet, you will require

  • a working Internet connection and
  • 400MB of free space on internal/external SD-card
Slide 4 For more information on Aakash Business Tool, please visit the following links,

https://github.com/androportal/ABT

http://aakashlabs.org/docs/abt/index.html

Slide 5

Prerequisites

To learn ABT, you must be familiar with the principles of book keeping.
Slide 6

What is ABT?

What is ABT?
  • ABT is a portable accounting tool, which runs on Android.
  • It is intended for accountants and accounts-students.
  • It is free and open source software, licensed under GNU GPL v3.
Slide 7

Who can use ABT?

It can be used by an NGO as well as by a Profit making organization.
Features of ABT

Slide 8

Now let us look at some of the features of ABT.

The first features are Maintaining Organizations and User authentications

Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. Here are small clips from the ABT series, on these features.
Point to slide 9 The next feature is Maintaining books of accounts
Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. Here is a glimpse of that.
Point to slide 10 User is allowed to change the default credit/debit settings, by prefixing a negative sign during account creation.


Point to slide 11 The next feature is Record, clone, and edit transactions.
Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. Let us look at a small clip of that feature.
Point to slide 12 Using ABT, one can record transactions under a project.
Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. Here is demo of how one can do that.
Point to slide 13 We generate reports such as,

Ledger,

Trial Balance(Net, Gross,Extended),

Cash Flow,

Cash Book,

Project Statement,

Balance Sheet(Conventional or Sources of application and funds),

Profit & Loss Account


Point to slide 14 Then we come to Bank Reconciliation.


Point to slide 15 The Next feature is Remote access to ABT server.
Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. We have a tutorial on that, too.
Point to slide 16 We can Export reports in PDF/CSV format
Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. Let's go and have a look at that.
Point to slide 17 Import/Export organization data to another tablet.


Point to slide 18 Next, Rollover
Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. This is quite a useful feature. Let's take a look at that.
So, these are the glimpses of what you will learn through the ABT series of Spoken Tutorials.
Now let's learn how to install ABT on a tablet PC.
Settings -> WiFi -> Advance Options If you work behind a proxy server, then ensure that you bypass proxy settings.
Go to Settings -> WiFi -> Advance Options To do so, go to

Settings -> WiFi -> Advanced Options Fill the details.

Also, add an additional entry of 127.0.0.1 to bypass localhost.

Skip this step for direct Internet connection.

Point to web browser Open the browser on your tablet and visit this link:

http://aakashlabs.org/ac/iitb/

Search for Aakash Business Tool & tap on Download.


Point to sdcard location

Now, from the downloads move the apk file to sdcard.

Install the apk file.


Point to ABT application

Now, open the ABT application.

Point to the prompt It will give a prompt that,

File system does not exist! Do you want to download and install?

Tap on Yes.

Point to progress bar It will download abt.tar.gz in the /mnt/sdcard location.
Point to extraction After downloading the file, it will automatically extract abt.tar.gz.


Point to the prompt It will say,

File system not mounted, device requires a reboot

Tap on Reboot.

This was the recommended method of installation.

Manual Installation

Point to web browser

Now, we will learn how to install manually. For that, Download apk from browser as we did in recommended one.

Now, here we will manually download abt.tar.gz from this link.

If you cannot download directly on your tablet, then,

  • Download them on your laptop and
  • Then copy it to /mnt/sdcard.
Point to sdcard

Place both abt.tar.gz and apk file in /mnt/sdcard location in your tablet.

Install apk.

Open ABT application.

Point to extraction

It will automatically start extracting abt.tar.gz.


Point to the prompt After extraction it will say,

File system not mounted, device requires a reboot

Tap on Reboot.

Note: If there is not enough space in internal memory, then you can place the extracted image file in your external sdcard.


Point to ABT application

Tap on ABT application.

We have successfully installed Aakash Business Tool.

You can see the information about ABT.

Now ABT application is ready to use.


From the next tutorial, we will learn how to use ABT.

Slide 19

Summary

In this tutorial we learnt
  • About ABT
  • Applications of ABT
  • Features of ABT and
  • How to install ABT.
Slide 20

Assignment

As an assignment, install ABT on any rooted tablet by recommended method.
Slide 21 Watch the video available at http:spoken-tutorial.org/

It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project

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Gives certificates to those who pass an online test

For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org

Slide 23 Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project

It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India

More information on this Mission is available at

http://spoken-tutorial.org /NMEICT-Intro

Contributors and Content Editors

Nancyvarkey, Trupti

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