Taking a step down, the $170 Peachtree Pro version lacks the Business Status Center, online banking, bill-pay, Outlook integration, and other features. Priced at $270, Complete Accounting is the midrange offering in the Peachtree family. We also like the Internal Accounting Review to help avoid trouble with the IRS at tax time, and the ability to lock prior reporting periods. For instance, it does a better job of presenting reports of fast-selling and slow-selling items. Then again, Peachtree tops QuickBooks at inventory management. What's missing is a wizard for importing data directly from Excel, which QuickBooks offers. Peachtree also synchronizes your contacts with Microsoft Outlook. You can now export reports to Excel that retain their Peachtree layout, specific formulas, autofiltering, and other features. Peachtree 2007 offers better integration with Microsoft Excel, although QuickBooks still has the edge in this area.
