Sage 50 Accounts classroom training courses
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These courses are the top courses in the UK for Sage 50 Accounts (formerly Sage Line50), please click the 
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Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts
This one-day course will give you an understanding of the basic principles of Sage 50 Accounts, from navigation through to creating and amending various records.
We'll also cover opening balances as well as controlling user access.
Choose this course if you're a new or existing accounts user who wants to basic understanding of how Sage 50 Accounts works before attending the Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 course.
Course Content
- Introduction to the software and how to navigate the menus
- Setting up password protection and/or restricting user access
- Basic configuration, financial year settings and setting up tax codes
- Creating, amending and deleting nominal accounts
- Customising the Chart of Accounts for the Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports
- Entering budget information and creating departments
- Creating, amending and deleting customer and supplier accounts
- Entering opening balances for nominal, customer and supplier accounts
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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 Training Course
This two-day course will give you an understanding of the day-to-day core operations of Sage 50 Accounts.
Choose this course if you're a new or existing accounts user who wants to know how to use the core features in Sage 50 Accounts.
Processing invoices, credit notes and payments, managing the sales ledger, error correction and protecting your data are some of the key topics covered.
Course Content
- Entering batch supplier invoices and credit notes
- Posting supplier payments including printing remittance advices, cheques and using e-banking
- Creating and printing service invoices and credit notes for customers
- Posting customer receipts and managing the Sales Ledger, including disputing invoices
- Dealing with contra entries
- Data entry routines including bank and cash transactions
- Processing bank recurring entries
- Interrogating accounts data using 'Search' for more accurate reporting
- How to back up and check data
- Correcting input errors
- Posting and correcting Journal Entries
- Customer payments and supplier refunds
What to do next
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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2 Training Course
Choose this course if you want to know how to use the essential management reporting and periodic routines within Sage 50 Accounts, including integration with Microsoft® Word and Excel.
This two-day course will cover in depth the processes and procedures for Month End, Year End, credit control, VAT return, Microsoft® Excel integrated reporting, depreciation, prepayments and accruals, recurring entries and key performance indicators.
Course Content
- Perform a bank reconciliation by comparing your Sage transactions to the actual bank statement
- Credit Control Reports and running customer aged reports
- Preventing late payments by formalising credit terms and sending statements
- Dealing with late payments through letters, placing accounts on hold and late payment charges
- Dealing with bad debts by writing off and reclaiming VAT
- Setting up the Fixed Asset Register to deal with depreciation and disposal of fixed assets
- Understanding the role of prepayments and accruals
- Understanding the Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Budget reports
- Use departments to analyse different areas of the business
- Integrate with Microsoft® to produce mail merges and easily transfer information to Microsoft® Excel using integrated reporting
- Produce, check and submit a VAT Return
- Prepare for, and run, the Year End
- Create multiple company accounts for associated companies or branches
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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 Training Course
This two-day course covers everything you need to know about stock control.
Choose this course if you're using Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Accounts Professional and want to know how to use the stock control functionality, including sales invoices and credit notes, as well aspects of the foreign trade features.
Course Content
- How to plan and maintain stock records, post opening balances and record adjustments
- Setting up multiple delivery addresses for your company, your customers and suppliers
- Look at the purchase order cycle, how to process from entry to delivery and match and post invoices to orders
- Understand product pricing and discount structures
- Look at the sales order cycle, how to process from entry to despatch and links to other areas of Sage 50 Accounts Professional
- Performing stock takes and processing stock adjustments, dealing with stock returns and stock month ends
- Use the Bill of Materials function to assemble finished goods from stocked components
- Producing product invoices and credit notes
- Producing quotes and proformas
- Producing multiple invoices using recurring transactions, skeletons and duplicates
- Running a stock year end and making global changes
- Setting up foreign trader, producing foreign currency orders and receipts and creating foreign currency price lists
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Certification
Now you can get Sage certification to prove your Sage 50 Accounts skills. Click here to find out more information.
Frequently Asked Questions - answered
- I have already got my Sage 50 Accounts software up and running, do I need to do the Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts course?
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- How big are the classes?
The classes are up to 12 people in size.
- What time do the courses start and finish each day?
Trainers ask delegates to arrive at 9:30am for a 10am start; the courses finish between 4pm and 5pm, depending on questions.
