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Peachtree Accounting 2005
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59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Longtime PT User. Looking for Alternative!!,
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This review is from: Peachtree Accounting 2005 (CD-ROM)
I have used Peachtree Accounting since 1994. It is the only dual-entry accounting software on the market for the small business person who wants to do his own accounting. Although it is VERY difficult to use for the average person who is also not an accountant -- mainly because setting up and using it are cumbersome -- I continued to use it mainly for payroll. It is the only accounting program which allows me to manually update the payroll tax tables myself, and thus the reason I have not switched over to QuickBooks.
I have upgraded almost every year, but this will be my last! The new "registration" policy is asinine! I am no longer allowed to use the software on either my desktop and laptop. It used to allow me to do so. I run no Fortune 500 company. I simply am a small business owner who keeps his own books. I do not always want to sit at my desktop computer doing payroll. Sometimes I want to use my laptop in the living room (or on the road) and access the data file via network on the desktop in my home office. The new system does not allow me to do this. Although I am not working from both computers at the same time, they consider this a need for a multiple license. This is asinine and thus prices their not-so-easy-to-use product out of my budget. I must add that although I have used Peachtree since 1994, have a business degree and more than a few accounting classes in college to my credit, Peachtree is still very difficult and unintuitive to use. Again, the ONLY reason I still use it is the capability of manually editing the tax tables. I guess my using it on either of my two computers (nonsimultaneous) in the past makes me a criminal in their eyes. A paying one at that! Oh well .. they've lost my business forever anyway!
30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Information to Consider,
By Sonny MD (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Peachtree Accounting 2005 (CD-ROM)
If you are a Quick Books (QB) user about to switch to Peachtree; don't worry you will be alright.
I have been in the accounting field for nearly ten years now and have used a variety of accounting programs from small business to enterprise levels. My new client uses PA2005, so I reviewed my PA2002 and went to Peachtree's website to view their online demonstration of PA2005 (very nice). I have used QB extensively and have their Premier 2004 package as well. I was very surprised to see how identical the two programs are in about 99% of their respective GUI (graphical user interface) themes. PA uses a virtually indentical check book analogy and GUI navigation system as QB. They are so close as to remind me of Microsoft's (alleged) copying of Apple's OS (operating system) interface. It would be interesting to get the history on these two accounting products/companies. But I digress. Counter to prior claims, QB does have an optional traditional double-entry system if you so choose to use it. Most of the time it was not necessary except for adjusting and reversing entries. The main difference seems, at the moment, to be that PA's interface is a little cleaner and less busy than QB's. Both are essentially solid, both have problems with payroll, both have fee-based payroll services available. The biggest differences lay in product vertical integration. In other words, their upper level software. PA's parent company is Best Software, the current owners of MAS 90 and MAS 200. QB's parent is Intuit, the owner of Lacerte. Both are fine industrial-strength programs. Both companies have migration paths to the greater packages if so needed. Intuit's migration path is better and will be easier to follow if you have not yet chosen your basic accounting program. They seem to have been seriously working on this for the last three years. Best is still getting there. If I knew Lacerte I could give you a better recommendation. I thoroughly enjoy MAS 90/200 and find it very flexible, but also very, very costly. Lacerte is not cheap either, but last I knew much more affordable. In conclusion, if your boss has decided to migrate from QB to PA - don't worry. You'll be able to get up to speed very quickly. If you haven't yet bought a package your decision process should include a look at their upper tier programs if you intend to grow past $50-125M/yr. If that is an issue you chose to address later, no worries there either. Conversion to a major package is a pain no matter who you choose. If your income range is going to be pretty steady or not going to grow to mega millions, I would lean to QuickBooks at this time. They have done serious work on integrating their program with Access, Excel, and Word. They also have a great (fee-based) customer support system in place and they are, and have been for quite awhile, the #1 accounting software in the U.S. by volume of units sold and in-place. Either package is acceptable and virtually identical in functionality. It seems to be a matter of preference of the user. I will report back if something spectacular presents itself in PA2005. At this time I anticipate none. If your are in QB and thinking about a switch, I can tell you it is not worth the bother. This may also hold true if you're already in PA and considering a switch. For now competition has yielded two packages which are, at this level, completely interchangeable. I imagine if there are to be any market upsets QB will really have to screw up their customer service or PA will dramatically improve theirs; which would include the open-sourcing their code.
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Accounting Software,
By James May "creative, dedicated eccentric" (Lometa, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Peachtree Accounting 2005 (CD-ROM)
I am a user of Quickbooks Pro 2004 and have just converted one company to Peachtree. Although I will continue to use Quickbooks also (very popular in this area), I am very impressed by this software.
Pros - The installation was seemless. It only took 3 minutes to register on the 800 number. The (customizable) user interface is a real strongpoint. From My Business you can get where you want to be with one click. Reports are customizable. The user manual is very good. If you want to badly enough, you can enter your own user maintained payroll tables although I suspect the average user will do well to purchase the Peachtree updates for inhouse payroll. I am using Peachtree with the latest version of Pervasive.SQL (8.6); I was presented with a dialog asking if I wanted to do this (I do) and so far no problems at all. For those who remember the Btrieve problems of years ago, rest easy; the bugs are gone. For those who like to actually CLOSE their books (which you can't do in QB), you can; some people may see this as a con. You can see up to 2 previous years business; you might want to save pre-closing data as a separate company at years end. Cons - If you are converting from Quickbooks don't expect individual transactions to be imported. This should not be surprising given the (excessively) proprietary QB db. The account balances will come over UP TO the day you choose to begin entering data (chosen during the conversion process). The customer/vendor lists etc. did come over, but you will want to edit them before you start entering business. Subaccounts become regular accounts during the conversion, but you can set up department masking (explained in the manual). If you are converting a company using Cash Basis instead of Accrual (I was), the accounts come over, but balances have to be entered manually. All this is explained in the Users Manual. This is good accounting software. I'd much rather see them implement a registration strategy than absorb losses that could cause the excellent quality to suffer. I'm giving this one 5 stars.
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