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  • Welcome to the Acumen User Guide
  • Beginning
    • Overview
      • The Basics
      • Quotes and Customer Orders
      • The Sale
      • Stock On Hand
      • Purchasing, Transfers and Manufacturing Orders
      • Supplier Accounts
      • Customer Accounts
      • Cash Book and Bank Reconciliation
      • General Ledger
      • Security
      • System Structure
      • Master Files
      • Sales
      • Orders
      • Debtors
      • Stock
      • Purchases
      • Creditors
      • General Ledger
      • Cashbook
    • Getting Started
      • Security
      • Point Of Sale
        • Products
        • Customers
        • General
        • Advanced
      • Debtors
      • Purchasing
        • Suppliers
        • Supplier Catalogue
      • Stock Control
      • Creditors
      • Till Banking
      • Cashbook
      • General Ledger
  • The Acumen System
    • Sales
      • Overview
      • Point Of Sale
        • Document Numbering
        • Elements of a Sales Document
        • Document Processing
        • Invoices
        • Cash Sales
        • Cash Refunds
        • Credit Notes
      • Orders and Quotes
        • Revisions
        • Expiry Date
        • Estimate Due Date
        • Reviewing Stock Availability
          • In Stock
          • On Order
          • Late Order
          • Part Ordered
          • Late Part Ordered
          • Not Ordered
          • No Supplier
        • Supplying a Customer Order
          • Regular Supply for a Customer Order
          • Exclusive Supply for a Customer Order
        • Picking An Order
        • Printing a Picking Slip
        • Taking a Deposit
    • Master Files
      • Sales Areas
      • Customers
        • Miscellaneous Customers
        • Charge Accounts
        • Credit Control
          • Trading Terms
          • Credit Limits
          • Credit Stops
          • Security and Credit Control
        • Credit Checking
        • Customer Pricing
          • Price Category
          • Club
          • Tax Exemption and Wholesalers
      • Product Groups
      • Products
        • Barcoding
        • Product Import
        • Product Categorisation
        • Miscellaneous Products
        • Surcharges
        • Long Descriptions
        • Dimensions
        • Bulk Buying
        • Bulk Selling
        • Product Classes
          • Kits
          • Factory Classes
          • Auto Use
        • Material Lists
          • Shrinkage
      • Prices
        • Price Categories
        • Special Prices
        • User Input Prices
          • Maximum Margin
          • Price Limit
          • Price Authorisation
          • Price Markdowns
        • Managing Price Changes
          • Product Pricing
          • Price Monitoring
          • Quick Response to Changes
      • Staff Members
      • Suppliers
      • System Options
        • Configuration
          • General
          • Address
          • Debtors
          • Creditors
          • Stock
          • Printers
        • Company Settings
          • Preferences
        • Pulldown Lists
        • Security
          • Base Access Level
          • Specific Access Level
          • Access Objects
    • Debtors
      • Overview
      • Debtors Balances and Integrity
      • Account Balances
      • Transactions
      • Receipts
        • Receipt Allocation
      • Journals
      • Allocating Credit Notes
      • Sales Files
        • Customer Sales File
        • Product Sales File
        • Sales Area and Product Group Sales File
        • Branch, Department, Product Group Sales File
        • Tax File
        • Master Batch File
      • End of Month
    • Stock
      • Stock Control
        • Opening Balance
        • Variations
        • Purchases
        • Production
        • Transfers
        • Sales
        • Usage
      • Stocktaking
        • Counting Stock
        • Spot Count
        • Live Stocktake
        • Backdated Stocktake
          • Variations in Stock
      • Stock Adjustments
      • Stock Transfers between Branches
    • Purchases
      • Overview
      • Stock Requirements
        • Sales Requirements
        • Customer Order Requirements
      • Tracking Customer and Purchase Orders
      • Placing Purchase Orders
        • Manual Purchases
        • Fully Automatic Purchasing
          • Regular Purchases
          • Catch Up Purchases
          • Urgent Purchases
          • Product Group Range
          • Branches
          • Shelf Stock
          • Customer Orders
          • Ignoring Later Deliveries
          • Utilising Overstocks
          • Split by Percentages
        • Semi Automatic Purchasing
          • Branch
          • Preference
          • Utilising Overstocks
          • Split by Percentages
        • Purchase Order Approval
      • The Supplier Product Catalogue
        • Product Group Entries
        • Product Entries
        • Preference
        • Lead Time
        • Percentage
        • Minimum Order Quantity
        • Reviewing Supplier Prices
      • Deliveries
        • Discrepancies in Deliveries
          • Back Orders
          • Short Delivery
          • Missing and Damaged Stock
          • Wrong Item Supplied
          • Purchase Returns
    • Creditors
      • Creditors Balances and Integrity
      • Supplier Account Balances
      • Transactions
      • Supplier Documents
        • Entering a Supplier Document
        • Approving a Supplier Document
        • Releasing Supplier Invoices for Payment
        • Allocating Supplier Credit Notes
        • Credit Claims
      • Payments
        • Making Manual Payments
        • Semi Automatic Payments
        • Fully Automatic Payments
        • Processing Payments
        • Printing Cheques
        • Printing Remittances
        • Journals
      • End of Month
    • General Ledger
      • Overview
      • An Example
      • Ledger Code Structure
        • Ledger code Segments
      • Chart Of Accounts
        • Statement Levels
        • Accounts
        • Sections
      • Ledgers
        • Finding a Ledger
      • Journals
        • Standing Journals
        • Completing Journals
        • Entering Journals for Alternate Years
        • Repeating or Copying a Journal
        • Manually Reversing a Journal
        • Automatic Reversing Journals
      • Transactions
      • End of Month
        • End of Year
          • Creating New Ledgers
          • Transferring Opening Balances
          • Carrying Forward Child Statement Balances
          • Carrying Forward Balance Sheet Items
    • Banking
      • Cashbook
      • Cheques
      • Till Banking
        • Tills
        • Balancing a Till
        • Banking a Batch
    • Distributed Systems
      • Overview
      • Effects of a Distributed Machine
        • General Files
        • Batch
      • Off-Line Operations
      • Remote Operations
        • Branch Stock Control
        • Remote Customer Orders
        • Branch Purchasing
        • Transfer Orders
          • Transfer Request
          • Transfer Send
          • Transfer Receive
          • Transfer Reconciliation
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  1. The Acumen System
  2. Distributed Systems

Effects of a Distributed Machine

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A Distributed machine has two extra requirements over the standard version of Acumen. These are:

  • a downloaded copy of the master files (General files).

  • a batch for storing documents until they are uploaded.

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General Files
Batch