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Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2009


Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2009

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All NEW for 2009!

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 fulfillment of customer orders – all while maintaining a firm grasp on key financial details. Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2009 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.

 
  1. Core Strengths
  2. Easy Start-Up
  3. Features
  4. Assembly
  5. New for 2009

Core Strengths


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.

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.

Track Your Payment Status
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.

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

Credit Memos
Choose the invoice to apply to, record the amount returned and you're done!

Accounts Payable

Bill Payment
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!

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 by choosing the invoice to apply to, record the amount returned and you're done!

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!

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), or Specific Unit.

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.

Reporting

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.

Collect from Your Customers / Pay Your Vendors
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. 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.

Rapid Access Reports
Save time by running key reports right from your most frequently used screens such as invoicing and purchasing! Information is already pre-filtered so that you have single-click access to the information you need.

Filter Reports Using Custom Fields
Filter your standard and custom reports by custom fields allowing you to run more meaningful reports categorized in ways more useful to you.

Customizable Reports
Choose from 145+ reports to better track, forecast and budget your finances and get the information vital to the success and growth of your business. 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.

Forms Design
Now you have a more flexible way to customize your forms such as invoices, sales orders or quotes for a more professional representation of your business. Improvements include the ability to add fields, colors, logos and other information with a new, simple design screen. Forms now include new guide marks to help you better layout your information.

Create and Print Deposit Tickets
Save time using this printed record for your bank deposits of your receipts recorded in Peachtree.

Time Savers

Business Status Center
Monitor your business in one place using an integrated view of key measurements and indicators. Find information relating to account balances, who owes you what and what bills you need to pay, and who are your most profitable customers to gain greater insight to help make more effective decisions all in one place. If you need to report back to a business owner, the Business Status Center can easily be printed out or a pdf file created and e-mailed to easily share the information on how the business is performing.

Recurring Transactions with Year End Rollover
Set up transactions once and do not worry, Peachtree will remember these transactions automatically for you. You set how often and when these recurring transactions should happen and Peachtree will do the rest.

Integration with Microsoft Word*
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 your the contact information or transaction information.

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

E-mails Generated by Alerts*
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.

* See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details

Easy Start-Up


Simple Step-by-Step Instructions
Easily identify all the new features within Peachtree 2009 with the New Features Screen. Choose from over 20 short instructional demos to help you learn about key functions in the product. Quickly learn how to enter customers, vendors, employees, and more with the Guided Tour! Plus, learn how to handle basic accounting transactions. And, walk step-by-step through setting up your company with the New Company Setup Wizard and get started quickly.

Navigation Centers
A more intuitive way to navigate and gain access to information. Get quick access to key infromation and tasks.

Easily Convert from QuickBooks®*
Use the QuickBooks Conversion utility to convert from QuickBooks versions 2005 - 2008, Basic through Enterprise.

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.

* See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details

Overview of Manufacturing Features


Enhanced Item Pricing Levels
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.

Apply Quantity Pricing Discounts
Easily specify up to 5 quantity ranges (per item) that will automatically trigger a percentage or dollar amount discount. Applying quantity discounts on the most commonly used forms is a seamless, behind-the-scenes process. When combined with Price Levels, you can create a matrix of up to 50 prices per item!

Indented Bill of Materials Report
Manage your assemblies with the Indented BOM report. Use this report to see sub-assembly details, the cost for each component, and the estimated unit cost for the assembly. This report is available in both a detailed and summary format. The Indented BOM will support up to 300 components per sub-assembly.

Order or Sell Using Vendor Part Numbers
Peachtree 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.

Inventory Trend Analysis
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 1. When it comes time to purchase components or ship finished goods, you can set up shipping units that match the way you do business, which can save time and improve the accuracy of your inventory counts.

Assembly


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 material components for a selected assembly item and a specified number of units to assemble.

New Features for Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing 2009


Multi-Year Reporting*

Compare budgets and financial results across multiple years within your General Ledger reports and Financial Statements. As your business grows over the years, you will be able to use this functionality to get improved trending analysis, better research, and more accurate forecasts based on prior year activity.

Flexible Payroll Management

Access to a flexible payroll management tool for your business is available. Peachtree 2009 makes managing your payroll easier with set-up improvements and expanded offerings for benefits and deductions. These expanded feature improvements offer you a better way to account for items that you need to effectively manage your business.

Real-Time Error Alerts

Having data accuracy is critical to any small business. Within Peachtree, you will be alerted when using non standard AP and AR accounts upon saving the transaction or when using a non-cash account in the cash account field on receipts and payments.

Cash Flow Management

Easily analyze and forecast your cash flow with the use of the cash flow management tool. You will have the ability to know whether or not you will have enough cash to meet current and upcoming financial obligations by managing your cash flow from one location. Additionally, you will be able to export cash flow forecasts into Microsoft Excel.

Time and Expense Tracking

Peachtree 2009 allows you to locate your time and expense tickets through a quick list view, utilize a new invoice form specific for your industry, as well as customize the first day of your business week depending on how your company tracks time.

Crystal Reports® 2008*

Experience a better end user report viewing experience, enhanced report designer productivity and advanced information visualization capability. Create what-if models that enable you to make important decisions, without leaving the report file. And have a more streamlined and flexible report designer within Crystal Reports 2008.

* See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details

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