Peachtree Premium Accounting For Manufacturing 2006

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Product Features

• Multi-user-ready accounting solution for small to large manufacturers
• Assembly and inventory management features; robust core accounting
• BOM revision history tracking and management for up to 300 companies
• Indented BOM report; work tickets; enhanced customer fulfillment tools
• 75+ sample company charts of accounts; easily convert from QuickBooks

Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009JQRUY
• Item model number: VERDSTM2006RT
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 29, 2005
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #23,568 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Whether you're a smaller job shop or a larger make-to-stock manufacturer, you face many of the same business challenges: efficient management of the assembly process, constant optimization of inventory levels, and fulfilling customer orders--all while maintaining a firm grasp on key financial details.

Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2006 combines powerful assembly and inventory management tools, advanced operational reporting, and the rock-solid core accounting features that have made Peachtree the choice of hundreds of thousands of small businesses. The result--an accounting solution tailor-made for the challenges of operating a profitable manufacturing business.

Easy Startup, Easy to Learn

With Peachtree Premium Accounting 2006, you get the tools you need to start working immediately. Helpful features like a Setup Guide and Preparation Checklist, Navigation Aids, Wizards, and a Guided Tour make it easy for you to hit the ground running!

New! Instructional Demos
Choose from over 20 short instructional demos to help you learn about key functions in the product such as how to make a backup, drilling down on reports, changing accounting periods, closing out the year, and more!

Learn With the Guided Tour
Quickly learn how to enter customers, vendors, employees, and more with the Guided Tour! Plus, learn how to handle basic accounting transactions.

Use the Navigation Aids
With illustrations designed to match the way you work, Navigation Aids make it easier for you to understand how your transactions are processed, while giving you instant access to the features you use the most.

New Company Setup Wizard
Walk step-by-step through setting up your company with the New Company Setup Wizard and get started quickly.

Choose from Sample Company Charts of Accounts
With more than 75 sample company charts of accounts to choose from, simply select the company that most closely resembles your own, and your books are instantly set up to fit your business.

Check Off Setup Tasks as You Complete Them
Let the Setup Guide walk you through the process of setting up your company information, record data, and beginning balances, and then check the task off your list and track your progress.

Easily Convert from QuickBooks
Use the QuickBooks Conversion utility to convert from QuickBooks version 4.0 - 2005, Basic through Enterprise.

Assembly Management Features

Advanced Indented Bill of Materials (BOM) Processing
Create advanced sub-assemblies of up to 300 components each that can be modified even after an assembly item has been sold--meaning there's no need to set up a brand-new assembly just because some components have changed. And all BOM changes are automatically logged in an on-screen revision history. View and print up to 10 sub-assemblies deep for each assembled item.

Work Tickets
Allows for detailed tracking of the labor and materials needed to complete assembly jobs. Track due dates, completion times, and avoid over committing components by removing in process components from inventory.

Assembly Planning Report
Displays bill-of-materials components for a selected assembly item and a specified number of units to assemble.

Production Schedule Report
Helps prioritize build jobs by detailing assembly items on open sales orders.

Component Pick List Report
Details bill-of-materials information for a selected assembly item.

Deficient Components List for Assemblies Report
Displays deficient bill-of-materials components for a selected assembly item and a specified number of units to assemble.

Inventory Management Features

Order or Sell Using Vendor Part Numbers
Peachtree now allows you to store an additional part number for inventory items. You can select to use the existing Item ID, the new Part Number field, or the UPC/SKU field when printing inventory reports, Purchase Orders, Quotes, Sales Orders, Invoices, Credit Memos, Receipts, or Payments.

Track Item Detail
Track extensive detail on each of your inventory items, such as price levels, tax types, weight, cost method, item type, and more!

Serialized Inventory Tracking
Assign serial numbers to specific individual inventory items when creating transactions and maintain detailed records for tracking, recall, and warranty purposes. You can also track actual cost of each serialized item for more accurate profit measure.

Item Attribute Sets
Easily create and track inventory items in a product line by defining attributes such as size, color, or any attributes you define. With this functionality, you can automatically create and maintain Item Attribute sets, and your reports and lookups will reflect this for easy cross-selling, tracking, and maintaining.

Auto-Creation of Purchase Orders based on Stocking Levels
You can automatically create purchase orders based on minimum stock levels, re-order quantities, and quantities on sales order. You no longer have to manually fill out purchase orders every time your inventory gets low!

Inventory Trend Analysis with the New Inventory Section in Peachtree Today
This feature allows you to see information on inventory without running multiple reports. You will have the ability to see fastest/slowest selling items as well as an inventory cost trend graph which displays revenue, cost, and gross profit percent by period.

Buy and Sell in Multi-Quantity Units
You can buy and sell inventory in units other than one. When it comes time to purchase components or ship finished goods, you can now set up shipping units that match the way you do business, which can save time and improve the accuracy of your inventory counts.

Multiple Costing Methods
You have the flexibility of tracking your inventory with a choice of various costing methods including Average, LIFO (last in, first out), and FIFO (first in, first out) costing as well as specific unit costs for serialized items.

Integration with UPS
Eliminates mis-typed address labels and forgotten shipments by coordinating your shipping through UPS from within Peachtree. Designed for customers who have moderate shipping needs, and want to calculate shipping costs, print labels, track packages, and notify customers.
(UPS functionality is subject to UPS terms and conditions. Internet access required.)

Stock Status by Location Report
This more detailed report shows the current quantities on hand, current quantities on sales orders and purchase orders, and a history of the item.

Item Sales by Customer and Purchase Order Number Report
This report displays item sales by purchase order number.

On-Hand Detail Report
Details purchase information for inventory items.

Core Accounting Features

Standard Accounting

General Ledger:

Archive Company Data
Increase your day-to-day performance levels by archiving your historical data and purging your active company. Plus, retrieve a copy of your company data to report on historical data or reprint forms such as old invoices.

Prior Period Locking
Improve data integrity by preventing an unauthorized user from entering or modifying a transaction in a previous accounting period.

Gain General Ledger Control
With Peachtree, you can have up to 13 periods in a fiscal year, and keep transaction detail open for two fiscal years. You can also easily maintain and report on budgets, as well as show or hide your GL accounts on task screens.

Quick Entry Account Register
Account transaction entry is easier and faster with the new Account Register. The new format looks as familiar as your checkbook register with the ability to drill down for more detail.

Accounting Behind the Screens
See what you want to see with the "Accounting Behind the Screens" function. With one mouse click, you can view the double-entry accounting going on, or click again to hide it, so you don't have to hassle with it.

Year-End Wizard
Save time and follow the correct steps during the critical process of closing your fiscal year.

Keep an Audit Trail
Record and report on any changes made to your transactions! Turn the feature on and off as needed, and control who has access to do so. When coupled with Peachtree software's password security, you can monitor each employee's activity within a company data file, including who made changes and where.

Safeguard Your Data
You decide who has access to your accounting and at what level. Choose to give employees access at the module level, or drill down to five screen levels of access for more specific security needs.

Accounts Receivable:

Generate Customer Quotes
Quickly and easily provide your customers with estimates for their orders by printing quotes! Your quote does not actually update your accounting information until the quote is converted to a sales order or invoice.

New! Exclusive to Peachtree Premium Progress Billing
Better manage your cash flow with Progress Billing. Bill your customers during the job cycle calculated on either of the following milestones: a percentage based on the total estimated job revenue, percentage completed, or percentage based on the job proposal. Peachtree will now allow you to create invoices based on the job's current progress.

Create and Track Sales Orders and Back Orders
Track your sales from order to invoice. Easily enter orders and track partial shipments, and always know what is on backorder with the onscreen "Out of Stock" warning or review the Sales Order Report. Plus, make sure you accurately fulfill your shipments by using the Pick List Report.

Track Your Payment Statuses
Instantly know which purchases or invoices are paid in full, partially paid, past due, or unpaid so you can easily stay on top of who owes you and who you owe. Plus, use payment status tracking to view partial payment information and net due for any invoice.

Customer Statements
Use statements for billing your customers with detail from invoices, credit memos, and payments automatically printed on the statements.

Receive Payments
Track each invoice until it's paid, even drill down to the detail in one click, and see how your receipts affect your balance. You also have the ability to print receipts detailing items sold and payments received upon recording Time of Sale payments.

Easily Void Invoices
Voiding invoices is as easy as voiding checks! Voiding an invoice reverses out the transaction instead of deleting it. It will automatically update your balances and aging reports, while keeping an audit trail of the original transaction.

Credit Memos
Easily create Credit Memos for your customers by linking to outstanding invoices. Just choose the invoice to apply to, record the amount returned, and you're done! You can even track Return Authorization numbers.

Accounts Payable:

Display Vendor Balance
Gain easy access to balance information and prior purchase detail by reviewing what you owe your vendors directly on purchasing screens, drilling down to detail level with just one click.

Bill Payment--New! Online or using your standard method.
Write your checks and pay your bills as if you were working in your own checkbook. Simply select which vendors and bills to pay, even review the invoice detail in one click, and print the checks-task done! New! Pay your bills online with Peachtree Bill Pay*. *Subject to approval and to Sage Software terms of service. Additional fees, Internet access, and checking account required.

Write Checks Fast
Write checks with a simplified screen that looks like the manual checks you're used to. And the split-screen feature shows "behind the screens" allocations for multi-account tracking just like a personal finance system.

Purchase on Time
Receive partial shipments and put items in inventory before receiving a bill! Easily handle drop shipments and review reorder reports for a quick glance at quantity-on-hand, quantity-on-order, and backorder information.

Vendor Credit Memos
Track returns to your vendors with easy-to-use Vendor Credit Memos. Just choose the invoice to apply to, record the amount returned, and you're done! You can even track Return Authorization numbers.

Inventory:

Serialized Inventory Tracking
Assign serial numbers to specific individual inventory items when creating transactions and maintain detailed records for tracking, recall, and warranty purposes. You can also track actual cost of each serialized item for more accurate profit measure.

Auto-Creation of Purchase Orders based on Stocking Levels
Set it up so that Peachtree software automatically creates purchase orders for you based on minimum stock levels, re-order quantities, and quantities on sales order. You no longer have to manually fill out purchase orders every time your inventory gets low!

Create a Purchase Order from Sales Order
Purchase orders are automatically created right from the sales-order screen while placing new customer orders so that you can eliminate double entry and potentially fill customer orders faster!

Powerful Inventory
Know how much inventory you have, how much you've sold, and how much it's all worth. Peachtree will even automatically update your inventory after you invoice your customers or purchase new stock from vendors.

Multiple Costing Methods
You have the flexibility of tracking your inventory with a choice of various costing methods including Average, LIFO (last in, first out), FIFO (first in, first out) costing, or Specific Unit costing.

Create Assemblies
Easily build assembly items by defining the Build of Materials in the Maintain Inventory Items screen. Simply choose the items you want to make up the assembly and everything is tracked together.

Item Attribute Sets
Easily create and track inventory items in a product line by defining attributes such as size, color, or any attributes you define. With this functionality, you can automatically create and maintain Item Attribute sets, and your reports and lookups will reflect this for easy cross-selling, tracking, and maintaining.

Track Item Detail
Track extensive detail on each of your inventory items, such as price levels, tax types, weight, cost method, item type, and more!

Enhanced Item Pricing
Ensure bottom line profitability with flexible, user-defined, formula-based pricing calculations, such as basing a price level on a percentage above average cost, and store them for use across all your inventory items. There are 10 Item Price Levels, and you have the ability to custom name each level, which show on reports and data-entry windows. The Item Price Levels can be stored at the customer and item level.

Item Price Changer
Because your business' costs rise and fall constantly, we make it easy to update pricing. You can update prices by an amount or percent for all or part of your inventory. With a simple point and click, you can globally increase or decrease prices, rounding up or down to a specific cent or dollar.

Payroll Solutions:

Payroll is a crucial element of doing business. To help you better focus on growing your business, rather than on tedious, time-consuming payroll activities, let Sage Software make your payroll processing easier and simpler!

Whether you choose to outsource your payroll, or prefer to do it in-house, Sage Software has reliable, cost-effective, time-saving solutions:

• Full-Service Payroll with Peachtree Payroll Service(a): It's like having a whole payroll department at your fingertips. Let payroll professionals at Sage Software do the work for you!
• In-House Payroll with Peachtree Payroll Tax Update Service(b): handle your payroll in-house using tools already in your Peachtree software with the help of Peachtree Payroll Tax Update Service.
• Peachtree Direct Deposit(c): add Peachtree Direct Deposit and make payday easier for everyone in your company.

(a) Available with Peachtree 2004 or higher products. Not available with Peachtree First Accounting. Additional fees apply. Subject to approval. Internet access and credit card required.
(b) Subscription period for Payroll Tax Update Service runs from December 1st through November 30th. Regulatory format changes for tax forms are updated annually at the end of the calendar year. Registration is required. Additional states available for a nominal charge. Not available with Peachtree First Accounting 2004 or higher.
(c) Subject to approval. Additional fees, Internet access and credit card required.

Time and Billing and Job Costing:

Time and Billing

Comprehensive Time Tracking
Easily track time using the time card features, and never enter information twice! Employees simply enter hours on daily or weekly forms and the time information then flows automatically into both invoices and paychecks.

Flexible Billing Rates
Choose from multiple rates--Employee, Activity, and Flat Fee--or choose to override the rate.

Flexible Billing Status Options
Choose from multiple billing status options the moment you enter a time ticket--Billable, Non-billable, Hold, or No Charge.

Instant Expense Tracking
Track all job or project costs and streamline your billing procedures by keeping track of expenses like travel, copies, meals, and more! Your expenses can then be linked automatically to your customers' invoices.

Job Costing

Always Know What a Job will Cost
Know in an instant if a job is worth starting, before you even begin! Easily determine which jobs are more profitable by comparing all job expenses versus revenue. Create job and project estimates by breaking down jobs to the phase level, and then review cost codes by breaking each phase down to a particular type of cost.

Fixed Assets:

Manage Fixed Assets
Calculate depreciation easily, quickly, and accurately! The Peachtree Fixed Assets system--FAS for Peachtree--allows for seven books of information, including Financial and Tax, all in full compliance with government rules and regulations(1). Track up to 200 assets(2).

Regulatory Compliance
Subscribe to the Fixed Assets Tax Service to ensure regulatory compliance.

(1) Regulatory compliance requires paid subscription.
(2) Additional fees apply for more than 200 assets.

Analysis and Reporting:

Peachtree Premium Accounting 2006 provides the reporting and analysis tools you need to always know where your business really stands!

Crystal Reports for Peachtree
Get the information you need the way you need it with Crystal Reports for Peachtree. Take advantage of the new features in Crystal Reports 9.0 for Peachtree such as exporting reports to Adobe format, 12 predefined reports, Report Alerts to monitor business conditions, easier formatting with the Template Export, and much more!

Get Finances in a Flash
Get a snapshot view of your business's overall financial performance with the Financial Manager function! Obtain a business summary and key balance information so you see the full picture in minutes, without creating reports. You'll review such popular ratios as Cost of Sales, Profit Margins, and more, as well as up-to-the-minute balances on cash, accounts receivable, and other vital information.

Check Out Your Cash Flow
Quickly and easily perform "what if" analysis to understand the impact of changing business conditions with the Peachtree Cash Manager. It displays the projected cash status for your company for a selected period of time. See balances for receipts, payments, payroll, and other cash broken down by dates due.

Collect from Your Customers
Display both by list and graphically the aging status of your customers who have open invoices and print collection letters for those customers with overdue accounts with the Peachtree Collection Manager.

Pay on Time
Use the Payment Manager to drill down through four levels of aging analysis so you always know whom you owe, how much, and when it's due. Plus, check off a batch of invoices to pay and print checks.

Peachtree Today--My Business Page
The My Business page in Peachtree Today provides a concise, graphical way for you to review your business status information onscreen with one quick glance and without having to run separate reports. Plus, you can customize your setting preferences on the onscreen accounting information statuses.

Peachtree Today--Daily Register Report
Stay on top of your business activities with the Daily Register Report in Peachtree Today--showing a summary of transactions of a particular type on a given day with the ability to drill down to the detail report.

Customizable Reports
Choose from 140+ reports to better track, forecast, and budget your finances and get the information vital to your business's success and growth. Customize these reports to look the way you want them to. You can also save time by grouping reports to run daily, weekly, monthly, or at year-end.

Easily Export Your Report Data to Microsoft Excel*
Copy your report data into a new Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with one click! Hit the Excel toolbar button and copy report data from the Select a Report window or from the reports displayed in the Report window. Peachtree will open the Microsoft Excel program and insert the report data into a new worksheet for you, and will even keep most of your report's original format.
*Requires Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, or 2003.

Time Savers and Customization:

Time Savers

Peachtree Premium Accounting 2006 gives you the tools to save time, allowing you to manage your business better.

New! Auto-Complete Text Fields
Complete your data entry faster and with greater accuracy. Peachtree will automatically fill in key fields based on past entries and store info in drop-down menus for future use.

Microsoft Word Integration*
Quickly create mass mailings or e-mail blitzes and other notifications such as customer newsletters, thank-you notes, credit requests from a vendor, and more from the contact information (i.e. customers, vendors, or employees) and transaction information already contained in your Peachtree database.
*Requires Microsoft Word (2000, 2002, or 2003) and Microsoft Excel (2000, 2002, or 2003).

"Fast Add" of Customers/Vendors/Employees
Save time on data entry with the ability to "Fast Add" customers, vendors, or employees from a transaction screen.

Schedule Memorized Transactions
Set up Memorized Transactions for Quotes, Sales Invoices, Purchase Orders, Payments, and General Journal entries.

E-mails Generated by Alerts
With the e-mail Alert feature, you can set the system to monitor key elements of your operations and have an e-mail alert generated when certain conditions are met to keep you operating efficiently. For instance, your purchasing manager can be notified by e-mail when an inventory item drops below a certain level, or your payroll manager can be alerted when an hourly employee exceeds a certain number of hours.

Copy Customized Reports and Financial Statements Across Companies
Save valuable time by easily copying customized reports and financial statements across companies.

Easily Change IDs
Change your Chart of Account, customer, vendor, and inventory IDs even after you've entered transactions. Simply change the ID while maintaining all the historical information.

Customization

Customize Your Forms
Updated look and formatting allows you to create and print professional, print-shop-quality forms on plain paper with your company logo or other special designs using the Custom Forms Designer. With rulers and a visual grid for better placement, marquee select, alignment, an undo function, and more, the Forms Designer allows you to add, delete, or rearrange the fields and columns in your invoices, purchase orders, mailing labels, and checks. Design your own forms using different types of objects such as data fields, text, commands, lines, rectangles, and bitmap graphics.

Customize Your Financial Statements
Use the Financial Statement Wizard to customize your Income Statements, Balance Sheets, and more. Specify type styles and fonts for each line and customize headers and footers, general ledger account masking, columns, and fonts.

Create and Print Deposit Tickets
You can easily create and print Deposit Tickets. Save time using this printed record for your bank deposits of your receipts recorded in Peachtree. Deposit Ticket Forms are also available from Peachtree with your company name, financial institution heading and MICR encoding.

Get the Data You Need, in the Format You Prefer
Eliminate trial-and-error printing by previewing onscreen the layout for your invoices, checks, labels, and more before ever printing. Includes the ability to zoom in and out.

Customize Your Task Screens
Set up your data-entry windows to match the way your business works! Simply select which fields you want to show or hide for a "clean" screen and more efficient data entry.