Sage Payroll Home Study Courses
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
We have two home study Sage 50 Payroll training courses available. Like our classroom course these Sage 50 Payroll tutorials provide an excellent, value for money course. Both courses include a full 180-day working copy of Sage 50 Payroll and manuals.
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Workbook tutorials with official Sage certification
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Sage 50 Payroll Workbook Tutorials Stage 1
Being the first suite in series of Payroll workbooks, Stage 1 contains 3 easy to use workbooks designed to help you learn how to set up, process a payroll run and make use of the main facilities of Sage Payroll as quickly and confidently as possible. The Workbooks have been written in "bite size chunks" to enable you to start and stop your training as and when required. Each book covers a specific area within the Sage Payroll for Windows program and the sequence allows you to stop at a convenient place, so as not to lose track of what you have already covered. Each book contains exercises to help you grasp the concept of using Sage Payroll for Windows and reinforce the knowledge that you are acquiring. Included in the pack is a trial CD for you to practice with, so you can rest assured that any mistakes will not affect any real company data. Then, when you're confident enough at using the trial 180 day CD, you can advance your knowledge with Stage 2.
Workbook Topics
Book 1: How to install and set up your Sage 50 Payroll
- Simple steps take you through software installation and setting up your company information, security passwords, employee records, payroll information and year to date values
- Learn tasks such as selecting weekly or monthly employees
- Learn how to set up payment and deduction types and how to assign these to your employees
Book 2: How to process a standard payroll run
- Learn how to select employees to be paid, set up deductions and additional payments, enter payments for the period, check payroll figures and print payslips
- Find out how to produce a backup before updating the payroll run
- Learn how to deal with starters and leavers in payroll
Book 3: Making use of the other main utilities within Sage 50 Payroll
- Carry out a pay review and award pay rises
- Practice how to set up, apply and process pension and holiday schemes and company loans
- Learn how to record holidays and absences and how to advance holiday pay
Learn how to
- Learn about key decisions prior to set up
- Process your employee pay
- Link Sage Payroll into Sage Accounts
- Processing statutory legislation such as SSP and Maternity Pay
- Deal with a Payroll 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 50 Payroll Workbook Tutorials Stage 2
Being the second suite in series of Payroll workbooks, Stage 2 contains 3 easy to use workbooks designed to help you learn how to link Payroll to other systems, process statutory functions and run a Payroll Year End. The Workbooks have been written in "bite size chunks" to enable you to start and stop your training as and when required. Each book covers a specific area within the Sage Payroll for Windows program and the sequence allows you to stop at a convenient place, so as not to lose track of what you have already covered. Each book contains exercises to help you grasp the concept of using Sage Payroll for Windows and reinforce the knowledge that you are acquiring. Included in the pack is a trial CD for you to practice with, so you can rest assured that any mistakes will not affect any real company data. Then, when you're confident enough at using the trial CD, you'll have gained all the knowledge to help you feel confident to try it on the real thing.
Workbook Topics
Book 1: Linking Sage 50 Payroll to other systems
- Find out how to extract information from Sage 50 Payroll to use in other software such as Sage Accounts, various spreadsheets and databases
- Learn how to integrate your payroll information with Microsoft® Office
Book 2: Statutory functions in Sage 50 Payroll
- Learn how to deal with Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Attachment of Earnings Orders, Student Loan Deductions and other statutory payments and deductions that you will need to process when making staff payments
Book 3: The period end, the year end and e-submissions
- Familiarise yourself with the important month-end and Payroll Year End tasks
- Find out how to submit Year End forms electronically to HM Revenue & Customs and how to process your payroll into the new tax year
Learn how to
- Learn about key decisions prior to set up
- Process your employee pay
- Link Sage Payroll into Sage Accounts
- Processing statutory legislation such as SSP and Maternity Pay
- Deal with a Payroll 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.
Workbooks with tutor support and Sage Business Partner certification
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Sage 50 Payroll Workbooks Stage 1 (Beginners Course for Sage Payroll)*
Here is a table of contents for the workbooks for this course:
Workbook Topics
Chapter 1 ~ Before You Start Chapter 2 ~ Important Information Chapter 3 ~ Program Basics Chapter 4 ~ Backing Up & Restoring Data Chapter 5 ~ Payroll Basics Chapter 6 ~ Company Settings Chapter 7 ~ Government Legislation Chapter 8 ~ Pension Schemes Chapter 9 ~ Pay Elements Chapter 10 ~ Adding Existing Employees Chapter 11 ~ Adding New Employees Chapter 12 ~ Employee Records Chapter 13 ~ Editing Employee Records |
Chapter 14 ~ The Processing Date Chapter 15 ~ Entering Payments (Month 10) Chapter 16 ~ Pre-Update Reports Chapter 17 ~ Updating Records Chapter 18 ~ New Employee Hourly Rate Chapter 19 ~ Manual SSP Calculations Chapter 20 ~ Process, Update & Reset Payments (Month 11) Chapter 21 ~ A New Employee Paid Weekly Chapter 22 ~ Process & Update (Week 50) Chapter 23 ~ An Employee Leaves Chapter 24 ~ Payment by BACS Chapter 25 ~ Process & Update (Week 51) Chapter 26 ~ Process & Update (Month 12 & Week 52) Chapter 27 ~ More Reports & Historical Data Chapter 28 ~ Year-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 50 Payroll Workbooks Stage 2 (Intermediate Course for Sage Payroll)*
Here is a table of contents for the workbooks for this course:
Workbook Topics
Chapter 1 ~ Before You Start Chapter 2 ~ Important Information Chapter 3 ~ Program Basics Chapter 4 ~ The Tree View & Criteria
Chapter 5 ~ Global Changes Chapter 6 ~ Pension Schemes Chapter 7 ~ Departments & Employee Analysis Chapter 8 ~ Holiday Schemes Chapter 9 ~ Advancing Pay & Paying Holiday Funds |
Chapter 10 ~ Statutory Sick Pay & Recording Other Absence Chapter 11 ~ Statutory Maternity Pay & Other Statutory Payments Chapter 12 ~ Company Cars Chapter 13 ~ Student Loans Chapter 14 ~ Roll Back Chapter 15 ~ Setting Passwords & Access Rights Chapter 16 ~ Contacts, Options & WebLinks Chapter 17 ~ Linking the Payroll to Accounts |
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.
* slight variations depending on versions.
Frequently Asked Questions - answered
- What is the difference between the two different types of workbooks?
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[answer] - I want official Sage certification but these workbooks do not include tutor support, will I be able to manage on my own?
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