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Small Business Wholesale and Distribution
posted by number generator @ 10:42 PM
Friday, September 18, 2009
Small Business Wholesale and Distribution
As a small to mid-sized distribution organization, you face a broad set of internal and external challenges around inventory management, procurement, pricing and escalating customer demands as you struggle to remain competitive and grow your business. Peachtree by Sage – Quantum empowers your organization, giving you unprecedented visibility to become more productive, make better decisions and achieve better business results. Peachtree Quantum by sage really offers alot more than Quickbook Enterprise and will give you the accurate results you need for your honest business.
Distribution industry challenges
- Increasing operational costs
- Shortage of available working capital from traditional sources
- Increasing global competitive pressure
- Reduced availability of partners
- Need to do more with less
- Increased competition from large suppliers moving down market
How Peachtree Quantum can help
Peachtree Quantum helps you address these challenges by providing distribution organizations core accounting functionality with advanced distribution features. Compare your operational costs to competitors with Business Analytics so you know where to make improvements. Do more with less by using workflow capabilities that help you increase efficiency, while being cost effective.
Peachtree Quantum provides:
- Multi-quantity unit buy/sell capability
- Serialized inventory
- Multiple costing methods
- Establish minimum stocking levels and reorder quantities
- Flexible pricing tools: volume discounts and quantity-based pricing
- Custom reporting to manage distribution operations
- One-year unlimited access to support, updates and upgrades
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Small Business Construction by Peachtree
posted by Mr. Peachtree user @ 10:11 PM
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Small Business Construction
As contractors and sub-contractors, you are probably scrambling for work opportunities, as well as face increasing competition from larger firms looking at smaller opportunities to offset their own business challenges. As a result, it is critical to have more accuracy and better visibility into your business’ performance. Small and mid-sized construction organizations like yours find Peachtree by Sage – Quantum an invaluable tool that provides the right amount of accounting functionality, construction-specific features and business analytics tools to help you achieve better results at a budget-friendly price.
Construction industry challenges
- Increasing material costs
- Shrinking business opportunities
- Extreme margin pressure
- Increasing competition from large suppliers moving down market
How Peachtree Quantum can help
Peachtree Quantum helps you address these challenges by providing core accounting functionality with advanced construction features. Better manager your materials costs with strong inventory management tools. Compare your business financials to competitors with Business Analytics so you know where to make improvements. Understand your margins better by using the labor burden calculation, job costing and other fixed costs tracking tools in Quantum to meet the demands of an ever evolving environment. Peachtree Quantum by sage has all of your accounting needs to do help you have a successful business.
Peachtree Quantum facilitates:
- Progress billing
- Retainage
- Labor burden calculations
- Job work-in-progress reportings
- Payroll overhead rate tracking
- Tracking of insurance expiration dates for sub-contractors
- Bill of material tracking
- Custom construction planning reports
Accountant Check up with your business checks
posted by Happy Business Guy @ 9:05 PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Its great to have a business account, but when you write a check, do you know when it clears the bank? Most of the answers would be NO. See what your bank can offer for notifications. BB&T bank offers a notification that when a check clears your business bank account, so you can keep up to date on what has or hasnt cleared.
Having the notification really is great for accountants to have. More organized your business is along with your banking. The better it will be for you to have a functioning business. When your not in-control with your business, who is? Having good control with what happens is great thing to know. Ordering cheap business checks helps to keep your cost down as well.
Now more than ever, accounting firms like yours who service the small to mid-sized market segment are being asked to support evolving client needs to help fuel future client growth, as well as your own practice. Meeting the needs of this dynamic market requires you to be at the very top of your game with the ability to provide accurate and detailed business information that clients can rely on to make sound decisions to generate growth and profits.
Peachtree by Sage – Quantum offers accounting firms a single, powerful and flexible accounting solution to address multiple client files, while providing a single access point to create and modify files from any Peachtree product format your clients might have.
Accounting industry challenges
- Increasing workflow resulting from multiple client needs, files and practices
- Increasing customer demand for faster information delivery
- Increasing client demand for more business performance analysis
- Increasing company mergers, consolidations
How Peachtree Quantum can help
Peachtree Quantum helps you address these challenges by offering accounting firms a versatile resource to serve their client’s needs easily and effectively. Accountants using Peachtree Quantum can create, open, modify and save client files from any version of Peachtree Accounting as well as handle complex tasks like company consolidation, file backup and restore, compensation history tracking and budget tracking for up to four years.
Peachtree Quantum provides:
- Single point of access to multiple client files
- Easy file back up and restore functionality
- More than 145 customizable reports
- One-year access to priority support, updates and upgrades
Sage Accountants Network
The Accountants Network is for accountants who insist on staying current on trends in accounting and business management solutions. The program offers you flexible access to information, software and services that allow you to respond to your clients’ needs – without investing a great deal of time and money.
Members of the Accountants Network receive:
- Online listings in the member locator
- Priority access to experienced support specialists
- Product upgrades/updates and payroll tax tables
- Access to valuable discounts on business services and products
Want to save your company some more money. Why not find a company that will allow you to buy alot of business checks, and the more you buy, then the more you can save in the long-run. Theirs a company that i know of that if you have placed 5 cheap business checks
orders, that they will give you a coupon for 25% off to use on your 6th order.
If you place large orders, saving 25% can really add up to alot of savings. With a hard economy, saving is really a big deal for alot of companies with alot of cut backs and etc… Saving can make your business grow faster, by using that extra money as re-investment to inventory, or upgrades. If you find a penny on the floor, are you going to walk over it, ot pick it up. I hope you would pick it up. If you found 100 of them, you just saved a dollar.
With widespread job cuts and a recession to deal with, it’s not easy to maintain a positive outlook at work these days. But being upbeat, despite the stress, could actually help you thrive during a downturn.
“Most people make the mistake of thinking that success leads to happiness. In fact, our brains work precisely the other way around,” says Shawn Achor, head of Aspirant, a consulting firm that advises clients like Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500), American Express (AXP, Fortune 500), Credit Suisse (CS), and UBS (UBS) on how to keep morale and productivity up in these extraordinarily difficult times.
A positive approach to the daily grind, he adds, “gives rise to resilience, energy, and the ability to influence other people — all things that create success.” Having an great accounting team helps as well. Use a good quality accounting program like Peachtree Quantum by sage.
So if you want to come through this downturn with flying colors — and maybe even a promotion or a raise — you need to think positive.
As any successful professional knows, you have to spend money to make money. All profitable businesses pay expenses, and the idea is to generate more than enough profit to offset that imbalance. Potential expenses include overhead – renting a storefront or office – supplies, consulting fees, subscriptions to industry journals and so on.
In order to increase efficiency, companies can use Quickbooks business checks for their payment needs. These checks lend an extra element of credibility to the enterprise as they prominently feature the business’s name, address and other crucial information. The checks can be customized in terms of general design and color scheme, so they don’t have a generic look.
Did you know that the top Accounting Software was Peachtree by sage. Peachtree ranked the best for ease of use, Help Documentation, Accounting Receivables and payables. Next was MYOB, then Quickbooks. Peachtree is really easy to use, and has a excellent system set up. The 2010 Peachtree by sage, has been really been upgraded alot more. You can see more of what your doing for your customers and inventory.
Quickbooks has done some upgrade, but not like peachtree has. If you use fixed assets, peachtree is the best program to use. Just try it for your self and see how much you like the program. Its easy to import from QB to Peachtree accounting. Peachtree Quantum by sage offers at least a 10 user edition for various industries.
When ordering business checks on top, you cant forget to get the deposit slips. We see it every day, that a company orders business checks on top for quickbooks, and they come back and order quickbook deposit slips. Save money if you order them togethere. That way the shipping cost wont be seperated and it will be in one order vs two orders, and paying for two shipping costs.
You can order the quickbooks slips blank. That way, you can customize them on your own. One thing you cant forget is to make sure you have a MICR toner for the checks and deposit slips. Otherwise, your bank may have to manually process the transaction, making you pay an extra fee. Ordering cheap business checks with deposits is easy to do.
How to Avoid the 10 Most Common Employee Handbook Mistakes
posted by Mr. Peachtree user @ 8:03 PM
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
We all know the importance of a well-written employee handbook: it helps to define company expectations regarding performance and conduct; it serves as a means of formalizing company rules so all employees are held to the same standards; and it provides general information about the
organization as well as the benefits and services the company has to offer. There are a multitude of reasons for creating an employee
handbook. But, if developed and implemented incorrectly, it can do more harm than good. Peachtree by sage software will help you with keeping up with your employee records
Below are 10 of the most widespread employee handbook mistakes and what you can do to avoid falling into the “trap”:
1. Failure to clearly publicize an at-will disclaimer. Employment at-will disclaimers make it clear that you do not intend to have the handbook construed as a “contract”