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Features and benefits of e-learning

• Certificate of Achievement on successful completion of course
• 12 week licence
• Online testing
• 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
• Online tutor to guide you

Sage 50 Accounts stage 1 e-Learning - 12 week licence

Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 e-learning follows the same style and format as the Introduction to Bookkeeping and Advanced Bookkeeping e-learning courses. This course is interactive, leaving you in full control of what you learn and when you learn it. It features step-by-step tuition, backed up with exercises and quizzes, offering feedback on your performance.

About the course

This course will allow you to utilise all of the fundamental features of Sage 50 Accounts, enabling you to get up and running with the software as quickly and confidently as possible. We recommend it to all Sage Line 50 users as essential training because it covers many routines that are fundamental to problem-free accounting.

Session 1: Navigation and Settings Learn about key decisions: basic configuration, account coding structures and layout of accounts. Cover Profit/Loss and Balance Sheet design, Financial Year settings. Learn about Currencies, Tax Codes, Departments and Company Preferences.

Session 2: Nominal Ledger and Chart of Accounts Gain an overview of the three integrated ledger systems - nominal, sales and purchase - used in Sage 50 Accounts. Learn how to set up the Chart of Accounts, create customer and supplier records, how to tailor nominal ledger records and account names. Learn how to alter the layouts of the Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports. This session also looks at Accounts Analyser, introduced with Sage 50 Accounts version 10.

Session 3: Entering Opening Balances Understand the choice of methods and implications for Standard VAT and VAT Cash Accounting, and how to make checks against your previous system.

Session 4: Recording Nominal, Customer and Supplier Transactions Learn how to record invoices, produce service invoices and credit notes (Note – product invoice production is not covered). Also learn how to record customer/supplier payments, cash and bank receipts/payments, credit card transactions, processing of expenses and journal entries in the nominal ledger.

Session 5: Housekeeping Learn why and how to back up and restore data, and also how to check and verify data.

Session 6: Error Corrections In this session we teach you key routines for correcting posting errors and reversing transactions.

Session 7: Bank Reconciliation Discover how to reconcile your bank account within Sage 50 Accounts against your bank statement.

Session 8: Customising Sage 50 Accounts Learn how to get the best out of your Sage 50 Accounts program. Look at the My Business Setup feature, ensuring you have the program tailored to suit your business type, and look at different ways of performing tasks through Task Based Navigation. Finally, cover Access Rights - how to control operators’ access to different parts of the program through password protection.

Other Sage Accounts training options

• Sage 50 Accounts CD ROM course
• Sage 50 Accounts workbooks with Official Sage Accreditation
• Sage 50 Accounts workbooks with tutor support and Sage Partner certification
• Sage 50 Accounts classroom courses
• Onsite Sage 50 Accounts training and consultancy