Do ever listen to music while you work? Have you tried www.Pandora.com? This is a very nice free Internet radio site that does not play any advertisements over the air. Just music.

Well, on to Peachtree and accounting. Let's start with tax filing deadlines. The IRS has a nifty calendar they publish which shows small business deadlines. Here are the deadlines for December. Click here.

E-mailing Large File Sizes
E-mail systems are limited as to maximum file sizes that can be sent and received. If your file is small, it can be e-mailed with no problem.

On the other hand, if the file you'd like to send is large, you may run into problems. Files over 5meg in size can be rejected by some E-mail servers. One solution is to use a program like 7Zip that breaks up your file into smaller pieces. All the person at the receiving end has to do is click on any of the pieces and they all reassemble themselves back into one large file.

This free program is very easy to use. All you do is click on the green "+" icon in the upper left corner. Then key a figure into the field in the lower right called Split to Volumes. For example, a file size you might specify is 2 meg - this is small enough to be easily e-mailed. You click OK and several compressed and split up files are automatically created. Now these smaller files can be safely e-mailed. www.7-zip.org/download.html

Closing Sales Orders
A Sales Order is closed by placing a check in the Close Check Box on the sales order. The sales order may be closed, even if the sales order was never filled. It may be closed if the bookkeeper knows the order won't be filled and he or she is tired of looking at it in the Sales Order register. A common reason to close a sales order would be if the customer canceled their order.

Duplicating a Company
To duplicate a company in Peachtree R2006,
- Make a backup of the company you want to duplicate.
- Make a new company, very quickly going through the screens. The values you enter don't matter since they'll be replaced in the following steps.
- Go into the new company just created.
- Choose File / Restore and choose "an existing company". This will cause the restore to occur in the company that is open, which is the company that was just made. When prompted, feed in the backup discs you've just made. The result is that you have your original company that is undisturbed and you also have your new company that has been replaced with the backup of your original company. This means you now have your original company on your computer twice.

Service Contract Specials:
- Capitol Data Phone Support: $69.00 for 3 incidents over 12 months.
- Capitol Data E-mail support: $36.00 for 3 incidents over 12 months.

Well, that's all for this time - thanks for reading and we hope you'll be with us again next month. Also, please be sure to contact us for custom Crystal reports, Crystal Reports training, or any of your other Peachtree needs.

Jim Vogt, Accountant and Consultant
Capitol Data, LLC
nhcd@metrocast.net
866-837-8867
www.JVogt.com