Abstract: A desired money-amount management apparatus includes a control unit and a display unit. The control unit includes (i) a setting unit that sets a group goal for an amount of money for a group composed of a plurality of users registered in a household-accounts management application, (ii) a summing unit that sums remaining amounts, registered in the household-accounts management application, of all member users being the users constituting the group, (iii) a checking unit that checks a progress status of the group goal based on the group goal set by the setting unit and the remaining amount summed by the summing unit, and (iv) a progress-display executing unit that displays the progress status checked by the checking unit on the display unit.

Abstract: An information distribution system that includes an information reading apparatus reading out data distributed from an information medium and an information display apparatus having an information acquisition unit for acquiring the data distributed from said information reading apparatus, a display for displaying the data acquired by said information acquisition unit, and a display limitation unit for imposing display limitations on the data acquired by said information acquisition unit according to the state of connection between said information reading apparatus and the information display apparatus.

Abstract: An information distribution system that includes an information reading apparatus reading out data distributed from an information medium and an information display apparatus having an information acquisition unit for acquiring the data distributed from said information reading apparatus, a display for displaying the data acquired by said information acquisition unit, and a display limitation unit for imposing display limitations on the data acquired by said information acquisition unit according to the state of connection between said information reading apparatus and the information display apparatus.