agMIS farm management accounting in MIS mode

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The agMIS Demo -- CD and Guide

A full-powered and inter-active agMIS system pre-set for a make-believe family farm consisting of 9 cropped fields on 3 farms, 7 beef lots of cows, calves, backgrounding and finishing, monthly farrowing, nursery and hog finishing lots, the monthly output of a 100-cow dairy, plus an off-farm (IRS Schedule C) business and typical family-living as well -- all designed to demonstrate agMIS' versatility, and loaded with useful ideas.

Built to reside alongside users' own agMIS system as a handy reference and place to practice away from one's live records.  Includes 'agMIS....it's the better way', 16 printed pages describing each of agMIS' 22 input and output modules (letters 'a' thru 'v') at its Home Page.

The agMIS System

A complete agMIS system on one CD, ready to install into any Windows environment, and accompanied by two documents:

1.  'agMIS Overview and Fast Start Guide' -- a 20-page printed and illustrated text that explains how to install, and how to get a quick start posting checks and deposits -- all in 20 minutes or less. 

  2.  'agMIS, for farms and ranches' -- an illustrated and printable 56-page operators guide (pdf format), in 5 parts:  agMIS Overview and Fast Start Guide, Cash accounting, Equity accounting, Accrued cost accounting, and agMIS Utilities.

'Farm Management Accounting in MIS Mode'

This 120 printable pages of pdf text is written especially for instructors, and for use in classrooms.  Each chapter opens with explanations of its related accounting principles, followed by definitions of terms, and illustrations of related agMIS tools, ideas and techniques.  Its table of contents includes:

Chapter 1 - Managing costs of production
Chapter 2 - Managing work in process accounting
Chapter 3 - Managing accrued income
Chapter 4 - Managing cash and taxes
Chapter 5 - Budgets, plans and forecasts
Chapter 6 - Fixed assets and the balance sheet
Chapter 7 - Financial evaluations
Chapter 8 - Supporting a general ledger
Chapter 9 - Supporting other tasks
Appendix 1 - A row crops example
Appendix 2 - Livestock examples
Appendix 3 - Other product cost examples

Note to schools and educators:  Please contact us for details about this important teaching and learning aid.

The agMIS Farm Financial Evaluator

This stand-alone CD is an extract of the interactive, 4-panel graphic dashboard display in the agMIS system of the 21 key measurements of a farm's financial performance, as defined by the Farm Financial Standards Council*.  This program edition responds to users' inputs of 20 actual, estimated, pro forma, forecast, or what-if key indicators (below).  Useful to individuals, educators, instructors, advisors, lenders and others.

Key Performance Indicators

 10.  Value of all unpaid labor

'Liquidity' and 'Solvency'

 11.  Capital gains
 1.  Total value - all assets

12.  Capital losses
 2.  Total value - all liabilities

Borrow/Payback Capacities
 3.  Total value - short-term assets 13.  Net outside income
 4.  Total value - short-term liabilities 14.  Owner withdrawals

'Productivity' and 'Efficiency'

 15.  Income taxes
 5.  Total value all production 16.  Interest paid on term debt
 6.  Total cost to produce it 17.  Principal paid on term debt
 7.  All other farm (net) revenues 18.  Old-debt carryover expenditures
 8.  Interest included in above cost 19.  Payments on personal debts
 9.  Depreciation included above 20.  Unfunded capital purchases

'Financial Guidelines for Agricultural Producers', Farm Financial Standards Council, 1991-2008
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