Aakash-Business-Tool/C2/Overview-of-Aakash-Business-Tool/English

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	Visit http://aakashlabs.org/ac/iitb/ from your web browser. Search for Aakash Business Tool and tap on Download to download the APK. Download a compressed image file from http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/AakashApps/repo/abt.tar.gz
Point to extracted image file	Extract image file. Image file name will be abt.img.
Point to sd card	Copy abt.img and ABT.apk to sdcard(internal or external) of 'your tablet. Using a file browser, install ABT by clicking on ABT.apk file. When prompted, say Yes.
Point to reboot option	Reboot the device
Point to ABT application	ABT application is now ready for use.
	In the subsequent tutorials of ABT series, we will learn how to use ABT for accounting purposes.
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 your tablet.
Slide 21	Watch the video available at http:spoken-tutorial.org/ It summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it
Slide 22	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials 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

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