We have just upgraded from PCA DOS to Peachtree for Windows. A report
that we use in processing payables is apparently not available in the
windows version.

The missing report is a Cash Requirements report, sorted by invoice
due date. In other words, the report we would like to have is a
complete list of open invoices sorted by due date.

Does anyone have a suggestion about how to produce this kind of
report? We’ve tried exporting various data to an MS Excel file and
resorting it, but so far we haven’t been able to produce the desired
results.

Thanks

I have created an Excel 97 program to help manage some inventory items.  The
program utilizes DDE to gather information from PT ver. 7.0.  My problem is
that I do not know how to poke my username and password when I start up
Excel.

In other words, if I do not have users and passwords setup the Excel program
runs great.  But, when the users and passwords are active I get the
following message, "You are not allowed access to information in that file".

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Help!!!  Does anyone know of a trainer ANYWHERE on the west coast that does not
charge $125 a hour?

Thanks!

Eric

.My father is a CPA using Peachtree Complete Accounting for DOS.  He is
getting the following two messages,

    a.. Another user is currently adding this company to their Peachtree
Complete Accounting. You cannot access this company until the user has
finished.
    a.. The CA company is being activated by another user.
He is a single user, with no network connections, not even the internet.
Does anyone have an idea what can he do to get rid of this problem so that
he can load the company data?

Ben

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Benjamin Engineering, PC
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C. Ben Allgor, PE
Benjamin Engineering, PC
http://members.aol.com/bengineers
email: benall…@ieee.org

Here is a compilation of my wish lists that I have sent in to Peachtree
during the past three years.   I have removed a total of three that have
been taken care of.  There may be others that I haven’t caught.

1. Group Export
2. Employee Templates
3. Print List of Past Due Brackets in Collection Manager
4. Show Page #’s on Screen reports so we can select which page we wish to
print
5. Add note to individual payroll checks
6. Preview Payroll report
7. Finance Charge report.select printer there instead of having to change
the default printer (I’m not sure but this one may have been taken care
of…I use to get garbage when I tried to print this to my usual printer)
8. General Ledger report.make balances more ‘clear’.  Differentiate between
period balance and ending balance.perhaps a separate column.
9. Reports.MANY times I have to look up info or print reports for ONE
customer only.  It would be great to have a feature where you simply select
the one only.rather than having to select it in two places.
10. Select due date for Finance Charges
11. "Ability to write form letters.  As it is, if they have a zero balance
you can’t use the collection letters.  If you try it under labels you can’t
enter the date.   The best work-around would be to have an option to include
zero balances at the report level AND the collection analysis."
12. Before printing checks.show how many checks are to be printed.  Maybe
even the last check number.
13. Collection analysis.ability to print age bracket list.
14. "Posting invoices.ability to post to prior month without having to post
it to the current month, pull it back up and change the date."
15. Receipts..Ability to enter the amount of the check first.then have the
system determine the amount left to be assigned to remaining invoices.
16. Ability to split payment between invoices and prepayment.  We have
members who pay up to a year in advance.  Need ability to mark future
charges against this payment in a much simpler manner.  Perhaps when there
is a credit balance the receipt screen could automatically appear when a new
charge is added?
17. "Carry over recurring invoices, etc. from one year to the next."
18. "More sort, default and search options."
19. A prepayment report.to show all outstanding prepayments.
20. Negative balance reports.
21. Global changes.ability to bill everyone or selected customers for the
same thing rather than have to enter the same thing over and over again for
each customer.
22. "When calculating it is not always obvious that the program is
‘working’.  A ""please wait"" notice would be helpful."
23. Finance Charge report.select printer there instead of having to change
the default printer
24. Financial reports..have option to select more than one account that are
not in sequential order for each line.

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Angela / Kentucky
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"Resentment is like
 taking poison and
 waiting for the
 other person to die"
 Malachy McCourt

We are using Peachtree Complete Accounting, version 7.0.03.098.

When reconciling our checking account (Task -> Account Reconcilation), we
noticed that certain reciepts listed in the ‘Deposits and Debits’ section
can show up twice. This happens for reciepts posted near the end of one
month and ‘bridge’ into the following month. For example, the following
reciepts are posted using Tasks -> Receipts (deposit made on July 2, 1999):

    Receipt          Deposit
    Date               Ticket ID          Amount
    ———–          ————          ———–
    6/26/99          7/2/99              $10.00
    6/28/99          7/2/99              $15.00
    6/29/99          7/2/99              $20.00
    7/1/99            7/2/99              $25.00
    7/2/99            7/2/99              $30.00

When performing the Account Reconciliation for June, an entry for $45.00
($10.00 + $15.00 + $20) under ‘Deposits and Debits’ appears. However, when
performing the Account Reconciliation for July, an entry for $100.00 ($10.00
+ $15.00 + $20 + $25 + $30) also appears. We think this started after we
upgraded to version 7.0.

We have used various versions of Peachtree over the past six years and do
not recall this happening before. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Is it
a bug, or has Peachtree changed the reconciliation method? Does Peachtree
allow checks to be received in one month but deposited in another? Are we
doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

k…@fastwave.net

A friend just purchase Peachtree First Accounting (whatever the latest
version from Staples would be) for his Win95 stand alone PC.  Install went
fine.  When creating a Company the first Part went well.  Here’s the
problem:

When Finishing part 2 and clicking the "Create" button the following error
occurs:
"DLL error.  Invalid entry in INI file"  That’s it.  Doesn’t specify which
DLL, ini or which type of entry.

The only thing I have found addressing an INI entry is the SHARE command in
the system INI.  I saw no INI files that Peachtree added during setup.

Adding a share entry in the autoexec.bat per the "readme" file instructions
did not help.   Reinstalling the software didn’t work.  The readme also
stated that if a VSHARE=SHARE was  *not* added to the system.ini during
setup, then the autoexec.bat should be changed.  This is a stand alone PC
and I made sure First Accounting was the only app open.

Also made sure the company name was 8 characters.

What type of entry should be added to an INI that would not generate an
error until trying to setup a company?  A font?

We used to run Peachtree 6 , which worked flawlessly. In 12 months use
in a 4-5 user multi user environment it crashed once! That’s great!

Wanting a 32 bit program which would work better under our NT
environment, we purchased version 7. Now whilst it may work slightly
quicker, it seems to have "issues" (MS Speak!)

I’ve had to recreate the sortjob.dat file several times. Quite often
now, the journal.dat file needs to be reindexed. Quite often, we get
record locking errors when posting. It just seems really flackey.

Anyone got any ideas? Any settings for the database engine I should
try? Or should I just slash my wrists now?

I work for a small accounting firm.  For one company, 8 of the 11 W-2′s
printed out perfectly.  On 3 of them, the Wages did not print in box 1 only.
They were fine in the SS and Med Wages boxes.  Why is this happening?  What
can I do about it?  It appears that all 11 employees are set up the same.
Thanks, Donna

I have a problem with one-write.  Once in a while when I load the program it
hangs up, the only way to resolve the problem is to turn off the computer.
I believe that the problem is related to programs loaded with windows.  I
have tried to unload the starting programs to no avail.  Does anyone have a
problem like this and do you have any suggestions.

Kirk Forsythe