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Solution at your fingertips working with figures is faster and easier with Swift.

SWIFT is an "electronic spreadsheet" or "financial planning" package, offering the sophisticated facilities of the more expensive spreadsheet, at a very reasonable price.

As the electronic pocket calculator was developed to perform complex functions very quickly for the scientists and engineers, so spreadsheets were developed to perform business calculations, whose functions rarely need complex maths, but involve many more variables to produce the end result. Thus the electronic spreadsheet uses the technology of desktop micro computers, to produce a calculation aid designed specifically for business use.

A spreadsheet program acts like a blank  sheet of paper onto which text and numbers can be added, and from which calculations can be made or entries altered. If several calculations make use of one entry then altering that entry will cause automatic recalculation of all the results.

Spreadsheets can be used for any sort of calculation, which uses rows and columns. The most common examples being Monthly budgets, Yearly forecasts, Analysis of expenditure, Profit and loss, Balance sheets, Costing, Job quotations, Market research and business modelling.

The main benefit, apart from time saved, guaranteed accuracy and neat presentation on a printer, is that a spreadsheet program encourages you to try out the effect of changing the variable quantities or estimates - to discover the effect on the "bottom line". A special form of this is called financial modelling which involves goal-seeking or reverse iteration.





Platform : BBC Micro
Format : Cassette
Publisher : Audiogenic Software Ltd.
Authors :
Date : 1986
Product Code :

Other Software by Audiogenic Software Ltd.:

Item Manufacturer Platform Format Date
BBC Bonanza (Disk) Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disk Unknown
Power Pack Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disk Unknown
Graham Gooch's Test Cricket Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disk Unknown
BBC Bonanza (Cassettes) Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro Cassette Unknown
Amok Audiogenic Software Ltd. Commodore VIC 20 Cassette 1981
Minikit Audiogenic Software Ltd. Commodore VIC 20 Cassette 1982
Psycastria (Disk) Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25" Disk 1986
The Complete BBC Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro Cassette 1986
Spreadsheet Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro Cassette 1986
Thunderstruck 2: The Mindmaster Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Electron Cassette 1986
Psycastria Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro Cassette 1986
Grandmaster Chess Audiogenic Software Ltd. Commodore 64 Cassette 1986
Bug Eyes 2 Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro/ Acorn Electron Cassette 1986
Despatch Rider Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25 Disk 1987
Ransack Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25" floppy disc 1987
Omega Orb Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Electron Cassette 1987
Sphere of Destiny Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro Cassette 1987
Ziggy Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro Disk 1987
Shark Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25" Disk 1988
Helter Skelter Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25" Floppy Disk 1990
Emlyn Hughes Arcade Quiz Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disk 1991
Loopz Audiogenic Software Ltd. BBC Micro 5.25 Floppy Disk 1991

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This exhibit has a reference ID of CH20809. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.
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