New Features:

• Changes made to Peachtree Complete Accounting 2004, Release 11.0, Educational Version, are reflected in the text. Such changes to Peachtree include flow-chart graphics on the redesigned Navigation Aid, accounts payable and account receivable credit memos, Windows XP compatibility, automatic payroll tax withholding, account registers, ability to zoom-in and drill-down from financial statements, Excel conversion from most reports, Universal Price Code (UPC) and Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) field, and updated screen captures. Addressing all of these enhancements to the program ensures that students are working and learning with the latest technology available in this area. Integration of Peachtree Complete 2004, Release 11.0 will also be reflected in the text with revised screen illustrations and report printouts on which students rely heavily.
• Chapter 1 now includes instructions for copying the Bellwether Garden Supply folder to a Zip disk or CD-RW disk. This will help students more effectively utilize and manipulate data.
• RESTORE WIZARD-restore A New Company or An Existing Company.
• Checkbook and account registers.
• Open Company screen shows the Peachtree directory.
• Spell-check as you type.
• Enhanced Account Reconciliation.
• Redesigned toolbar.
• Drill down to the original entry window.
• Email forms.
• Open the previous company from the File menu.
• Use the Next/Back button on maintenance and task screens.
• Vendor payment terms are tracked in the cost of sales account Purchase Discounts.
• Chapter 14, Payroll, includes automatic payroll tax withholding for the 50 states.
• All chapter activities, exercises, and comprehensive problems are revised.
• The entire text is available in our Primis database online at www.mhhe.com/primis. This provides instructors with optimum flexibility by enabling viewing of all content online and the ability to customize it as needed.

Retained Features:

• Peachtree Complete Accounting 2004 software is packaged with every text. This allows students to have their own copy of the software for use at home or on campus. The author recommends that the software packaged with the textbook be installed in the school computer lab to ensure compatibility with the software that students install on their home or office computers.
• This textbook is supported by an Online Learning Center that allows professors the convenience of using the supporting website content in a distance learning setting with a course management system such as WebCT or Blackboard.
• Text is spiral bound for ease of use when working on the computer.
• Chapter 18 on Dynamic Data Exchange is included to give students practice copying Peachtree report data or financial statements to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
• Students set up 11 businesses from scratch. This is valuable training for future accounting technicians.
• Chapters 9 and 10 and Chapters 11 through 14 include serial problems.
• Four revised comprehensive projects allow students to synthesize material they have learned across multiple chapters resulting in greater comprehension of concepts. Students also design their own business and projects.
  • Project 1: Lena Becker, Consultant
  • Project 1A: Student-Designed Service Business
  • Project 2: Copper Bicycles
  • Project 2A: Student-Designed Merchandising Business
  • Project 3: Valley Computers
  • Project 4: Woods Manufacturing, Inc.
  • Project 4A: Student-Designed Project
• Peachtree's two sample companies, Bellwether Garden Supply, a retail business and service company, and Pavilion Design Group, a service company, are incorporated into Part I of the text.
• Students will experience "Out of Stock" warnings on sales orders, create and print deposit tickets, and enter purchase descriptions on checks.
• All chapters have Software Objectives and Web Objectives; within chapter exercises, which include detailed software steps and numerous screen captures; end-of-chapter exercises; Internet activities; Going to the Net exercises; multiple-choice questions and writing assignments to reinforce important concepts.

Each copy of the software includes a site license. Or, schools may obtain a site license and the educational version of the software from Peachtree. Schools can download an academic site license from Peachtree Software’s website at www.peachtree.com/training or call Peachtree at 800-554-8900. The Instructor's Manual & Key, available online at www.mhhe.com/yacht2004 and on the Instructors Resource CD, also includes an academic site license application that can be faxed to Peachtree Software.

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