New Features:

• User interface includes Navigation Bar (Peachtree's dashboard) with Business Status; Customers & Sales; Vendors & Purchases; Inventory & Services; Employees & Payroll; Banking; and Company selections.
• Software installation, including serial number, is included at the beginning of the textbook.
• All instructions, screen captures, and detailed steps are consistent with Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 for use with the Windows Vista operating system, Windows XP SP2, and Windows 2000 SP3.
• New sales tax wizard and letter templates wizard.
• Custom date-range filtering and enhanced report options.
• E-mail reports, financial statements, and add attachments.
• Design tools for report customization and auto populate IDs.

Retained Features:

• Peachtree's two sample companies, Bellwether Garden Supply, a retail business and service company, and Stone Arbor Landscaping, a service company, are incorporated into Part I of the text.
• Site License Agreement included on Help Menu for standalone and multi-user installations.
• Double-entry accounting procedures are reinforced with concept review and practice. Yacht shows how Peachtree helps student's master fundamental accounting principles.
• Navigation interface to access information and record transactions; drill down to lists, reports, setup windows, and graphs.
• Enhanced Excel integration, comparative budget spreadsheet creator, and improved audit trail and internal controls are key features from past editions.
• There are four parts of the text : 1) Exploring Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008; 2) Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 for Service Businesses; 3) Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 for Merchandising Businesses; and 4) Advanced Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 Applications. There are four comprehensive projects as well as three opportunities for students to design their own businesses.
• Students set up 11 new service, retail, nonprofit, and manufacturing businesses from scratch . This is valuable training for future accounting technicians.
• The Online Learning Center for the 12 th edition of Yacht (www.mhhe.com/yacht2008) includes PowerPoint slides for each chapter; online student quizzing with feedback, grading and an email link; going to the net and Internet activities; and additional resources.
• The entire text is available on Primis at www.mhhe.com/primis for greater flexibility.
• All chapters have Software Objectives and Web Objectives, in-chapter activities, end-of-chapter testing and exercises, Internet activities, Going to the Net exercises, and writing assignments to reinforce important concepts.
• Peachtree Complete Accounting 2008 software is packaged free with the text and includes everything needed to record business transactions : general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, inventory, time and billing , and job costing. The text is spiral bound for ease of use when working at the computer.
• Going to the Net exercises and Internet Activities are in every chapter. This provides students more practice on the web, extra reinforcement of chapter concepts, and writing assignments. (Solutions to Going to the Net exercises are provided in the Instructor's Manual, and on the Instructor's website at www.mhhe.com/yacht2008 .)
• Each chapter includes an index.