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
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| Slide 1 | Hello and welcome to this series of spoken tutorials on Aakash Business Tool i.e. ABT |
| Slide 2
Learning Objectives |
This tutorial is an introduction to Aakash Business Tool, ABT for short.
We will also see
And learn how to install Aakash Business Tool on an Aakash tablet. |
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System Requirements |
To record this tutorial, I am using
To install ABT on your tablet, you will require
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| Slide 4 | For more information on Aakash Business Tool, please visit the following links, |
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Prerequisites |
To learn ABT, you must be familiar with the concepts of book keeping. |
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What is ABT? |
What is ABT?
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Who can use ABT? |
It can be used by an NGO as well as a Profit making organization. |
| Features of ABT
Slide 8 |
Now let us look at some of the features of ABT.
The first feature is Maintaining Organizations and User authentication and role. |
| Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. | Here is a small video clip from the ABT series. |
| 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.
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| Point to slide 11 | The next feature is how to Record, clone, and edit transactions. |
| Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. | Let us look at it. |
| 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 of how this can be done. |
| Point to slide 13 | We can view various reports such as,
Ledger, Trial Balance Cash Flow, Cash Book, Project Statement, Balance Sheet Profit & Loss Account
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| Point to slide 14 | Let us have a look at Bank Reconciliation.
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| 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 even export a report in PDF as well as CSV format |
| Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. | Let's have a look at that. |
| Point to slide 17 | Next important feature is Export organization data to another tablet.
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| Point to slide 18 | Next feature isRollover |
| Switch to the tab where this tutorial is and play it for 5-6 secs. | This is quite a useful feature. Let's have 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 Aakash tablet. | |
| Settings -> WiFi -> Advance Options | If you work behind a proxy server, please ensure to bypass localhost in proxy settings. |
| Go to Settings -> WiFi -> Advance Options | You can find the option under,
Settings -> WiFi -> Advanced Options Fill the details. |
| Add an entry of 127.0.0.1 to bypass localhost.
You can 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.
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| Point to sdcard location |
Once Downloaded, install the apk file.
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| Point to ABT application |
Open ABT application. |
| Point to the prompt | It will prompt that,
File system does not exist! Do you want to download and install? Tap on Yes. |
| Point to progress bar | This will download abt.tar.gz file in your internal memory. |
| Point to extraction | After downloading the file, it will automatically extract abt.tar.gz.
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| Point to the prompt |
After extraction, it will again prompt that the, File system is not mounted, device requires a reboot Please Reboot the tablet. This was the recommended method of installation. |
| Manual Installation
Point to web browser |
Now, we will learn how to install ABT manually. For that, Open web browser and download apk from this link, http://aakashlabs.org/ac/iitb/ We will manually download abt.tar.gz file from this link, http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/Aakash/Apps/repo/abt.tar.gz If you are unable to download the file on the tablet, please download it on your desktop. |
| Point to sdcard |
Copy the file to /mnt/sdcard of the tablet. Install apk. Open ABT application. |
| Point to extraction |
It will start the extraction of abt.tar.gz file.
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| Point to the prompt | After extraction it will again prompt that the,
File system is not mounted, device requires a reboot Now Reboot the tablet. Note: Incase there is not enough space in internal memory,
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| Point to ABT application |
Tap on ABT application. We have successfully installed Aakash Business Tool. You can see the information about ABT. Now ABT is ready to use.
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From the subsequent tutorials, we will learn how to use ABT. | |
| Slide 19
Summary |
In this tutorial we learnt
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| 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 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 |
