Someone that dont deal with alot of banking, or is new, needs to know how to order business or personal checks. Theirs so many ways of ordering checks on line with your bank, on line with other companies, or on the phone. One big concern is the customers privacy whether its by phone, internet or paper in the mail.

If your ordering personal checks, you can do it online with your bank, or just go to your local bank. Ordering business checks is more difficult, because of the styles, types, colors that is being offered. If your ordering business checks, its a good idea to fax a copy of your business check to the company that you want to order from. That way, they can match the style, format, and know where to place the bank information at (ROUTING AND ACCOUNT NUMBER SPACING).

Manufacturing organizations like yours, especially those in the small to mid-sized segment need to focus on the markets and business processes that are producing results while working to improve operational efficiency and enhance customer response. To do so, you require in-depth visibility and insight into the information at the heart of your manufacturing business. Peachtree by Sage – Quantum Manufacturing Edition powered by MISys Inc. delivers not only the core accounting features you need, but a rich manufacturing-based feature set that helps drive efficiency, customer satisfaction and profitability.

Manufacturing industry challenges

• Increasing operational costs
• Increasing material costs
• Inconsistency in order volume from customers
• Need to maintain profitable output with fewer headcount
• Increasing global competition
• Increased competition from large suppliers moving down market

How Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition can help

Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition helps you address these challenges by providing core accounting functionality with advanced manufacturing features powered by MISys Inc. Do more with less by using workflow capabilities that help you increase efficiency, while being cost effective, improve assembly processing, make inventory management more predictable, reduce delivery times and create greater customer satisfaction. Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition offers tools that are right for growing job shops to large make-to-stock and make-to-order manufacturers.

Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition provides:

• Extensive tracking of manufacturing inventory and work in process (WIP)
• Multi-level bills of material with full explosion down to 16 levels deep
• Net-change physical inventory with cycle counting
• Batch-oriented or direct entry of all stock transfer transactions
• Full back flushing of all assembly transactions
• Choice of standard, average, LIFO, or FIFO costing methods
• Cost adjustment with roll-up through all BOM levels
• Stock check processing to identify impending shortages
• Work orders to document and track production activity
• Configurable alerts to show you critical events and status
• Additional modules to extend capabilities in Advanced Purchasing, Advanced Production, Material Requirements Planning
• Custom manufacturing reports
• One-year access to priority support, updates and upgrades

Are you looking for a manufacturing software solution that is simple to install, quick to implement, and easy to use? Peachtree Quantum Manufacturing Edition can help you reduce your inventory holding costs, avoid painful purchasing mistakes, and prevent costly production delays.

Empty parking spaces sign of slow economy

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Take a look around town, preferably from the top floor of an office tower, and something becomes markedly clear down below: Parking decks aren’t as full as they used to be.

That’s good news for those looking for a parking spot. But not so great for AAA Parking and its competitors. The recession means Atlanta-born parking giant AAA is punching fewer tickets, especially at hotel parking decks, where room vacancies translate to empty parking spaces.

Until something like the recent partial collapse of a Midtown parking deck, parking never gets much attention because of its mundane nature. But it’s a good gauge for a region’s economic health. And in a place like metro Atlanta, replete with parking decks and surface lots, parking is a good economic indicator.

AAA Parking alone manages about 85,000 parking spots in metro Atlanta.

“Atlanta’s taking a pretty good hit for hotel occupancy and that affects our business as well,” said Eric Garrison, San Antonio-based marketing director for AAA.

Monthly parking, which is mostly filled by workers, hasn’t been as hard-hit as hotel parking, which is off “significantly,” he said. Metro Atlanta had a 53.3 percent hotel occupancy rate during the first half of this year, according to Mark Woodworth, president of PKF Hospitality Research, which tracks the hotel industry.

“That’s very low,” Woodworth said. During the same period a year ago, occupancy stood at 62.4 percent. Historically, metro Atlanta hotels have had a 64.4 percent occupancy, Woodworth noted.

Hotels account for a quarter of the AAA’s overall properties — 50 of its 200 facilities nationwide. But those hotels account for 60 percent of the company’s revenues. Consequently, AAA’s overall revenues are down 15 percent and the company has responded with layoffs of its own.

AAA, one of the largest parking management companies in the country, was founded in Atlanta in 1956 and acquired by real estate and development firm Selig Enterprises in 1981. Metro Atlanta accounts for about half of AAA’s business. The company manages a variety of parking properties including hospitals, hotels, arenas, self-parking and facilities with valet service.

“No doubt, the economy’s affected our business,” Garrison said. The company has offset the drop in revenue by picking up more properties to manage.

But the recession hasn’t persuaded parking garage owners or managers to significantly changes their rates. A study done last month on parking rates worldwide found that parking rates are holding steady. Few cities have seen a “significant pullback in parking rates,” according to Colliers International’s 2009 Parking Rate Survey. The survey tracks 64 North American markets.

The survey noted some changes in daily and monthly parking rates in this country during the last year. Daily rates rose 1.2 percent or 18 cents; monthly rates were off 0.9 percent or $1.47. The survey attributed the drop in monthly rates to the “substantial decline in office occupancies, which tends to push monthly park rates lower.”

Along with layoffs and the drop-off in hotel business, other economic factors also have affected the parking business in metro Atlanta, Garrison said. Spikes in fuel prices, for instance, have led many people to ditch cars and carpool or ride MARTA. Business Checks are slowing down along with the economy. Not as many business are using checks, because of employee cut backs.

California vendors fight for their cash

Small business owners plan layoffs and furloughs if they’re saddled with hard-to-redeem IOUs.

California is in a very hard time right now. We have provided the news article provied by CNN business news. Its importnat to make sure when your running a business, and your using your checking acount, to make sure you have enough in that account. Business checks is a great thing to have, but what happens if you run short and no extra money to cover for it.  You can always go to your quicket source of cash, and thats your savings account. California is in so much trouble, they are going to start issuing IOU’s. Thats not good. That can affect a lot of business. Read below to see more info about California.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — As if struggling to stay afloat during a faltering economy isn’t difficult enough, hundreds of small business vendors that rely on contracts with California are facing another hurdle: There’s a good chance the state won’t be paying any of their invoices this month.