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V Page 6A - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Thursday. January 21. 1988 Brains Can Work Well With Computers Well, we survived the Big Snow. The new year Is well under way and things are looking up, right? That's what President Reagan says. He said the Big Crash was no Indicator of trouble In the economy. It was the fault of computers. Mr. Reagan also said the huge trade deficit Is a bless ing in disguise. Seems it attracts foreign capital to our shores. O.K.—if we believe the Chief, let's saddle-up and ride off into the golden economic future. This Is the time of year when people In business think of caplt^ out lay for equipment and other things to upgrade their opera tions. For a couple of columns we'll talk about computers. I know, I know. Some of us have to take off a shoe to count things up sometimes. Don't wor ry-computers aren't as com plex as the salespeople in com puter stores make them seem. You know the type. They talk fast like a car salesman, and everything they say Is about as understandable as an apart ment lease. Before taking the plunge, ana lyze what your business will need. Do you want to computer ize accounts payable? Billing and collections? Your general ledger? You might not necessar ily need a computer capable of handling an NASA moon shot. And a small computer can do many other things. Such as word processing or patient schedul ing, If you are, say, an advertis ing guru or a sawtones. Regardless, don't make the Big Mistake almost everybody does. After making your basic analy sis, don't rush right out and pur chase a computer. I know Apple, IBM, Compaq and all the other computer companies constantly bombard us with sales pitches that are the envy of an appli ance store.’ Resist that. Get your software first, then go looking for a computer system that will run It best. There are two basic kinds of Main Street by Jimmy Brock accounting software-- customized and packaged. Cus tomized will cost you more mon ey, and requires a computer pro grammer to modify It to fit your needs. The average small-to- medium business can do very well with packaged software. It offers a wide range of options that are already coded into the software package. There are packages today that have the same capabilities and features that a $50,000 custo mized system had ten years ago. And they cost a lot less than you might think. Many affordable software packages will handle the usual business accounting functions, including Inventory and payroll. There are also packages that will handle specialized things like order entry. Job costing or real estate management. You can get a good mix of software capabilities by purchasing packages from several vendors. Next time we'll talk about how to analyze what software is out there and how to sound like you know what you're talking about. So don't throw this column away. Computers will be a part of our lives from now on. There's no way those little devils can out-figure us, right? The brain of a three-year-old human being is capable of handling more com plex operations than the com puter that brings the astronauts home from space. So hang In— we can ace these things. Workshop On Creating Low-Income Housing RALEIGH-The North Caroli na Housing Finance Agency (NCHFA) is sponsoring six workshops this month to ex plain the Low-Income Tax Cred it Program, a financing tool created by the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The program encourages both for-profit and nonprofit or ganizations to buy, construct or rehabilitate housing for low In come persons. Developers from across the state are Invited to attend and to apply to receive more than $7.91 million In tax benefits in 1988 and 1989. Twenty percent of this amount is reserved for nonprofit organi zations. The tax credit allows investors a maximum federal tar deduc tion of four percent or nine per cent of the cost of housing rent ed to low-income occupants. The credit may be used each year for 10 years, as long as the rental units remain occupied by low-income persons for a mini mum of 15 years. "Low Income" Is defined as pro jects with at least 20 percent of the units reserved for families earning no more than 50 per cent of the area median Income; or, 40 percent or more of the units occupied by families with Incomes at 60 percent or less of area median Income. Income limits are adjusted for family size. The tax credits are allocated to qualified projects on a first- come, first-served basis. Once 60 percent of the year's credits are reserved, projects are ranked and selected by the North Carolina Federal Tax Re form Allocation committee. NCHFA provides administrative support for the tax credit pro gram and reviews developers' Lewis Dr. Lewis Establishes New Dental Practice ay Herb White Post Staff Writer Marcia Lewis, an associate dentist who has joined Gwyn Davis's Charlotte practice, brings an impressive resume to theji^. Ms. Lewis opened her practice last week and will concentrate on general dentistry, which In cludes extracting teeth and per forming oral maintenance for patients. Lewis, 32, Is a native of Zanes ville, Ohio and attended Central State Unlverstly In Wilberforoe, Ohio, where she graduated in 1977 with a bachelor of science degree In chemistry. She received an M.S. from Vir ginia State University in 1981 and received her D.D.S. from Ohio State University last year. Lewis, who has two sisters In Raleigh, settled on Charlotte af ter hearing about an opening in Davis's office. "I heard Dr. Davis was looking for an assistant and I checked Into It," she said. Lewis is an avid sports fan, and stays quite active during her free time. She played basketball at Cen tral State, where she was a four time most valuable player. She also plays softball. "Right now. I'm just looking for a team to play for," she said. proposals for committee ap proval. 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