Peachtree Premium and Peachtree Complete contain a job costing feature, but you find only a job tracking feature in Peachtree First Accounting and Peachtree Accounting. If you don't know the difference between job costing and job tracking, you probably don't need either one. Throughout the book, when we cover a feature that you find in Premium but not in the other flavors, we include notes to let you know.
And, throughout the book, when we refer to the product as Peachtree, we mean Peachtree Premium -if we want to talk about one of the other flavors, we give you the full product name. We divided this book into four parts, each made up of two to eight chapters so that you can easily find the information that you need. We explain how to get around in Peachtree, how to create a company in Peachtree, how to make an effective chart of accounts, and how to set up default information that saves you lots of time later.
Stuff like that. We also cover paying for services that keep your business running, and we cover a couple of more esoteric topics, such as billing customers for time that you spend working and tracking project costs.
Introductionto get it out and see the effects of your business habits. Then we cover reconciling the bank statement and the stuff that you do monthly, quarterly, or annually.
We also show you how to easily keep your accounting information safe -a very important chapter. Because you spend so much time putting stuff into Peachtree that it would be criminal to lose it just because your hard drive crashes or your office is robbed. This part contains a collection of ten-something lists. These products can enhance the way that you work in Peachtree. Plus, keeping books manually provides too many opportunities for human error.
Using Peachtree saves you both time and money; in addition, you can know at any moment in time your complete financial status. We know you're eager to get started.
Operating a business is a nonstop process, but to computerize your accounting, you have to put first things first. To work effectively, take some time to get comfortable with some of the features unique to Peachtree. In this chapter, you find out how to navigate in the software as well as open and close companies as needed.
We also show you where you can turn for additional assistance. If you're ready, dig in. Starting the ProgramYou have a choice: You can start Peachtree the easy way or the hard way. We prefer the easy way. When you installed Peachtree, with your permission, it placed a Peachtree icon on your Windows desktop. Assuming we know, we're not supposed to assume that you haven't thrown that icon into the Recycle Bin, you can simply double-click the Peachtree icon the one with the peachy little peach on it , and the program starts.
To make sure that Peachtree always starts in a full-sized maximized window, right-click the Peachtree icon and click Properties. In the resulting dialog box, click the drop-down arrow in the Run box, select Maximized, and then click OK to accept the changes.
If you did throw the icon away or you have so many icons on your desktop that you can't see it, okay, you can start Peachtree the hard way. Choosing opening optionsAfter you start Peachtree, what do you do with it? The Peachtree Start Screen appears as shown in Figure , beckoning you to do one of several things. One company, Bellwether Garden Supply, is a retail and service company that uses most of the features of Peachtree, including inventory and job costing.
Depending on the Peachtree edition you are using, you may have additional sample companies to investigate. You explore one of these in the steps in the following section. Peachtree helps to make the conversion pretty painless. Exploring a sample companyYou can best explore Peachtree's features by opening the Bellwether Garden Supply sample company and finding out how to move around in Peachtree.
To open a sample company, follow these steps: Click Explore a Sample Company. Click the radio button next to the sample company that you want to explore. For this example, click Bellwether Garden Supply. Click OK. As with other Windows programs, the name of the currently open company appears at the top of the window in the Peachtree title bar.
Getting around townWhen you first open a sample company, the Peachtree Today window appears. For now, click the Close box to close the Peachtree Today window. Although the main menu window of Peachtree looks pretty plain, don't skip too lightly through it. The window actually displays several pieces of information. At the bottom of the screen, the Windows-style status bar see Figure displays information about the field, window, or menu choice that you happen to be using, as well as the current date, a toolbar, and the current accounting period.
We think that the toolbar Calculator tool is especially helpful! Choosing menu commandsThe pull-down menus should be a familiar sight from your other Windows programs. For example, you can store vendor, customer, inventory, and employee information, including names, addresses, and phone numbers.
This new edition includes a complete copy of the Land's End Annual Report, which the authors have integrated throughout the text. New e-Business Insights describe how e-business technology has expanded the services provided by accountants. This book provides glimpses into the real world of business--including Ethics, Insights, International Insights, e-Business Insights, and Business Insights.
So, the internal guru gets stuck with the company's PC problems, without classroom training on hardware or software. This book is for those small business gurus. You'll quickly discover how Peachtree can save you time, effort, and money so that you no longer have to do your accounting by hand or pay someone else to do it for you.
Publishing to coincide with the latest release of Peachtree, this third edition is revised to cover the newest updates and enhancements made to the most recent version of Peachtree. Veteran authors Elaine Marmel and Diane Koers break down the capabilities of Peachtree Premium Accounting, from building an effective chart of accounts, to customizing forms and modifying reports, to setting up default information that will save you time down the line.
You'll also discover how to: Work with purchase orders Sell products and services Generate invoices Track project costs Produce income statements Back up and restore data Balance accounts Manage inventory Handle customer prepayments Pay for purchase orders with a credit card Keep your account information safe Packed with examples of everyday, real-life situations, Peachtree For Dummies, 3 rd Edition is the reference you need so that you can put Peachtree to work for you and get the job done quickly and correctly.
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