Instant Accounts Home Study Courses
We have three home study Sage Instant Accounts training courses available; these are in the form of workbook tutorials, a CD-ROM course and an Internet course. Like our classroom courses these Sage Instant Accounts tutorials provide an excellent, value for money course.
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Sage Instant Accounts Workbook Tutorials with official Sage certification
Includes full 180-day working copy of Sage Instant Accounts, manuals, and optional tutor support and Sage Business Partner certification.
Features and benefits of Self Study Workbooks
- Cost effective
- You can re-do the course over and over again
- 180 day Demo CD
- You are in control of what you learn and when
- No need to take time away from the office
- Concise jargon-free instructions
- Practical Examples
Course Content
What are the Instant Accounts Self Study Workbooks? This is a suite of 7 workbooks designed to help you make the most of Sage Instant Accounts. They are written in plain English by Sage experts, and take you from Installation and Setup, right through to running your VAT and Year End. Each book concentrates on a specific area of Sage Instant Accounts, and can be used to suit your preferred pace, giving you a chance to practice what you have learned. There are practical exercises to help you understand and familiarise yourself with the program before using it for real. We even provide you with a 180 day demonstration CD to work with!
All you need to become an expert at using your Sage Instant Accounts program!
Book 1: How to install and set up your Sage Instant Accounts programLearn how to install your software and set up your company address and profile. Discover how to navigate around the program menu items, set up your bank and nominal records. You will also learn how to set up your Accounts structure, and create your customer and supplier records.
Book 2: How to enter your Opening BalancesIf you’ve transferred from a manual accounting system to Sage Instant Accounts, then you need to enter all Opening Balances, such as your current bank balance, and money customers owe. This book shows you how. We also look at the decisions that need to be made before setting up your program, to actually posting your Opening Balances into Sage Instant Accounts.
Book 3: Starting to enter transactionsLearn how to start posting supplier transactions. These include entering items such as credit notes, supplier payments and the process of different payment types. You will also cover posting customer transactions, creating and printing invoices, entering customer receipts and then finally, perform bank cash and nominal transactions.
Book 4: Running your monthly routinesHere we deal with recurring bank entries. You will cover how to match your bank statement against your bank account, how to deal with paying in instalments and how to use the prepayments and accruals option. You will enter fixed assets and depreciation and run the Month End procedure - producing your balance sheet and profit and loss report.
Book 5: Credit control proceduresIn book 5 we cover useful utilities found in Sage Instant Accounts. You will filter and show only customers and suppliers by choosing a certain search criteria. Sage Instant Accounts can also assist you with credit control procedures by producing aged debtors reports and deal with late payments ensuring your customers pay you on time.
Book 6: Running your VAT Return and Year End routinesIn this book we look at how to locate and correct errors in transactions that may have been posted incorrectly. You will learn how to produce that all-important VAT Return and you’ll see how quickly it can be produced. You will also cover how the program deals with different VAT schemes. You will produce graphs and export data out of Sage Instant Accounts into Microsoft Office programs.
Book 7: How to set up Products and start invoicingIn the final book of the suite we look at how to set up a stock system in Sage Instant Accounts. You will create product records and opening stock balances, as well as how to produce product invoices and perform stock period end procedures.
What to do next
Click the button (opens a new window or tab) or call now on 0845 641 0624 or email us via the enquiry page to get started on your Sage training.
Sage Instant Accounts CD-ROM course
Features and benefits of CD ROM learning
- Cost effective
- You can re-do the course over and over again
- Certificate of Achievement on successful completion of course
- You are in control of what you learn and when
- No need to take time away from the office
- Bookmark where you are in the course and return to it later
- Work with simulated version of Sage Accounts avoiding interference with live data
Course Content
This is an ideal way to learn when and where you want. The Instant Accounts CD ROM is a CD that you install onto your PC. You will be able to learn at your own pace. It provides you with help on how to use the CD, and has bookmarks, so you can easily revisit pages of interest. It also comes with a Frequently Asked Questions section and glossary to help you with accounting terminology.
This course has been designed to guide you gently through the key features of the Sage Instant Accounts program. It covers key aspects, from installation and set up, right through to operating your accounts, allowing you to become conversant at using the product.
Configuring Sage Instant Accounts:
Containing 6 sessions that show you how to install the product, set up your company data and balances before starting to enter accounting data.
- Session 1: Installation, Preferences & Navigation
- Session 2: Company Settings
- Session 3: The Nominal Ledger
- Session 4: The Chart Of Accounts
- Session 5: Customer & Supplier Records
- Session 6: Opening Balances
Operating Sage Instant Accounts
Operating the software covers everything from entering transactions, creating products and invoices right through to backup/checking your data and correcting accounting mistakes.
- Session 7: Operating The Nominal Ledger
- Session 8: Operating The Supplier Ledger
- Session 9: Operating The Customer Ledger
- Session 10: Creating Product Records
- Session 11: Product Invoicing
- Session 12: Housekeeping Routines
- Session 13: Error Corrections
Reconciling Sage Instant Accounts
These sessions cover how to make the best of getting your customers to pay on time and how to cross check your Bank Statement with the transactions you have made within Sage Instant Accounts.
- Session 14: Credit Control
- Session 15: Bank Reconciliation
Period End Routines
You will learn how to run some of the more important routines such as producing and printing a VAT return and what to do at a period end.
- Session 16: Month End Adjustments & Reporting
- Session 17: VAT Return
- Session 18: Year End
What to do next
Click the button (opens a new window or tab) or call now on 0845 641 0624 or email us via the enquiry page to get started on your Sage training.
Sage Instant Accounts Internet course
Features and benefits of e-learning
- 12 week licence
- Online testing
- Certificate of Achievement on successful completion of course
- You are in control of what you learn and when
- No need to take time away from the office
- Online tutor to guide you
Course Content
Online learning could not be easier. Log on and off to suit your study periods and you will learn all about Sage Instant Accounts in no time at all. From start to finish you will enhance your knowledge and quizzes will reinforce what you have learned.
This course has been designed to guide you gently through the main features of the Sage Instant Accounts programme. It takes you from installation and set up, right through to operating your accounts, allowing you to become conversant enough to use the product well.
Configuring Sage Instant Accounts:
Containing 6 sessions that show you how to install the product, set up your company data and balances before starting to enter accounting data.
- Session 1: Installation, Preferences & Navigation
- Session 2: Company Settings
- Session 3: The Nominal Ledger
- Session 4: The Chart Of Accounts
- Session 5: Customer & Supplier Records
- Session 6: Opening Balances
Operating Sage Instant Accounts
Operating the software covers everything from entering transactions, creating products and invoices right through to backup/checking your data and correcting accounting mistakes.
- Session 7: Operating The Nominal Ledger
- Session 8: Operating The Supplier Ledger
- Session 9: Operating The Customer Ledger
- Session 10: Creating Product Records
- Session 11: Product Invoicing
- Session 12: Housekeeping Routines
- Session 13: Error Corrections
Reconciling Sage Instant Accounts
These sessions cover how to make the best of getting your customers to pay on time and how to cross check your Bank Statement with the transactions you have made within Sage Instant Accounts.
- Session 14: Credit Control
- Session 15: Bank Reconciliation
Period End Routines
You will learn how to run some of the more important routines such as producing and printing a VAT return and what to do at a period end.
- Session 16: Month End Adjustments & Reporting
- Session 17: VAT Return
- Session 18: Year End
What to do next
Click the button (opens a new window or tab) or call now on 0845 641 0624 or email us via the enquiry page to get started on your Sage training.
Frequently Asked Questions - answered
- Is there only one type of workbook, with the exam included in the price?
[answer] - Does the e-Learning course have an exam and certification?
[answer] - Does the CD-ROM come with explanatory literature?
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