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Peachtree 8 For Dummies [Paperback]

Elaine Marmel (Author), Diane Koers (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)


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0764506404 978-0764506406 August 16, 2000 1
Peachtree can save small business owners a bundle on accountant’s fees and a lot of headaches. Packed with accounting basics plus powerful business management tools, Peachtree automates many of the accounting tasks involved in running a business, and it offers valuable insights into a company’s financial performance.

Peachtree 8 For Dummies gets you quickly up to speed on all of Peachtree’s awesome capabilities. Fed up with the accounting drudgery that consumes so much of your valuable time—time that could be spent growing your business? Let this book show you how to use Peachtree 8 to:

  • Streamline your business accounting
  • Automate most daily accounting chores
  • Effortlessly keep track of all your credits and debits
  • Eliminate tax-time headaches
  • Save a fortune  on accountant’s fees
  • Keep track of your company’s financial performance

Packed with valuable inside r tips, real-life examples and practice scenarios, Peachtree 8 For Dummies shows you how to set your company up in Peachtree. In plain English, this guide tells you what you need to know about:

  • Setting up easy invoicing
  • Managing general ledger tasks
  • Creating budgets and balance sheets
  • Automating payroll functions
  • Writing and printing checks
  • Keeping track of inventory
  • Generating quarterly and annual reports and W-2s
  • Using powerful import/export features
  • Keeping track of checks and receivables
  • Customizing Peachtree for your business
  • Keeping your accounting information safe and secure

Some people like accounting—even some non-accountants. But for the rest of us, who put accounting in the same class as root canal surgery, Peachtree 8 For Dummies is a gold mine of sanity-saving how-to information.



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Discover how to:

Set up easy invoicing
Tackle general ledger tasks
Create budgets and balance sheets
Generate quarterly reports and W-2s
Use powerful import/export features

From the Back Cover

The bottom line on creating reports, handling your payroll, and more!

Find out how to keep track of checks and receivables

Make sense out of all your dollars and cents with this fun and easy guide And you thought business accounting couldn't be fun and easy. These pages are packed with tips to help you tackle the sometimes daunting chore of keeping track of all those debits and credits. You'll find this friendly guide to Peachtree 8 invaluable for simplifying your accounting tasks — so you can get down to business!

Discover how to: Set up easy invoicing Tackle general ledger tasks Create budgets and balance sheets Generate quarterly reports and W-2s Use powerful import/export features

The Dummies Way Explanations in plain English "Get in, get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (August 16, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764506404
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764506406
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,538,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Help for New Peachtree Users, March 14, 2005
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Arjay8 (Northern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peachtree for Dummies (Paperback)
Making the jump to Peachtree from Quickbooks was difficult -- not only does Peachtree do things differently than QB but it assumes and demands more accounting acumen than QB -- and I found I needed help to get everything working for my small company. Peachtree is not the friendliest piece of software I've encountered and this book helped me "tame the beast". I would recommend it to anyone who is starting to use Peachtree or even considering Peachtree for their business.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but updated edition needed, May 4, 2007
This review is from: Peachtree for Dummies (Paperback)
I bought this out of desperation--there is NOTHING ELSE OUT THERE, at least nothing worth using for learning Peachtree. AVERAGE usefulness for a help-me-I'm-dying guide.

Can be used for a read-through tutorial, but I suggest this only if you are extremely stupid and accounting-illiterate and very bad at navigating self-explanatory computer programs. I'm 17 and have only been doing this accounting thing for 6-7 months, and was totally able to skim/skip the first 3 1/2 chapters.

Don't get me wrong. I needed this book. It simply works better as an index-reference tool (although I will warn you, the setup of the book is unusual, and you will probably need to reference 2-4 different places each time you have a question).

The only thing that really bugged me was that the book is somewhat outdated and needs to be re-vamped. This book was last revised in 2004. I have Peachtree 2007 Pro. In some places, the navigation (Go Here--> Click here) was not applicable to my version of Peach and I was left on my own to find the phantasmic feature.

WOULD RECOMMEND. Although finding the exact info you need can be tricky, it's certainly faster than trying to find the answer yourself or, even worse, online.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't even bother, August 16, 2005
This review is from: Peachtree for Dummies (Paperback)
Peachtree for dummies is no better than the user's guide that comes with Peachtree. I'll give anyone my copy so they don't waste their money on it. Its basically theuser's guide, but paraphrased. It really explains absolutely nothing.
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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. Read the first page
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adjusted gross wages, payroll field, entering beginning balances, payroll tax table, data field objects, sales tax code, posting method, expense tickets, box selector, lookup list, memorized transactions, recurring purchase, retainage amounts, outside payroll service, payroll features, credit memo, cost codes, payroll year, inactive records, reformats the data, use this window, general journal entries, assembly item, recurring transactions, using payroll
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Maintain Employees, Time Tickets, Product Cost, Maintain Customers, Bellwether Garden Supply, Peachtree Complete Accounting, Peachtree Today, Apply Tickets, Payroll Setup Wizard, Peachtree Version, The Daily Drudge, General Journal Entry, Coleman Realty, Financial Statement Wizard, Select For Payment, Unreconciled Difference, Maintain Inventory Items, Reports Related, Action Items, Maintain Vendors, Purge Guide, Brown County, Click Maintain, Click Tasks, Integrity Check
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