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Sage 50 Accounts workbook training from Advantage Services the UK’s leading Sage Partner for distance learning training. Ideal for small businesses and individuals looking to become qualified in Sage Accounts.

Choose to study on your own or benefit from our experienced and friendly tutor support service. When you pass the online exam you can add official Sage Accreditation to your CV!

Features and benefits of Self Study Workbooks

• Includes Official Sage Certification after you pass the online exam
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• Cost effective, as 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 with practical examples

Each level comprises a 60 minutes online exam that you do in your own time. This is an open book exam which means you can use your workbook and demo data to help achieve Sage Accreditation for your CV.

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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 Self Study Workbooks Course Overview

Section 1: How to install and set up Sage 50 Accounts Learn how to install Sage 50 Accounts and set up your company address and profile. Cover all the initial set up routines, such as how to create your nominal and bank records, and enter new customer/supplier records. Find out about how the chart of accounts works with your nominal ledger and how changing it will affect your Profit and Loss Report.

Section 2: How to enter Opening Balances Whether you have transferred from using manual bookkeeping or another system, you have to enter opening balances. These include figures such as your current bank balance, VAT liability and petty cash, but they also include balances that are currently owed by customers, and indeed balances you owe suppliers. Workbook Two looks at the decisions you need to make before you start, and will show you how to post Opening Balances.

Section 3: Starting to enter transactions This concentrates on the day-to-day postings. It will show you how to post Journal Entries that move values from one nominal code to another, such as when posting salary journals. You will also learn how to enter Bank Transactions such as customer receipts and supplier payments by cheque, cash or credit card. You will create customer and supplier invoices, both as batch entries and as product or service invoices. This book demonstrates how to create credit notes and deal with discounts. It will simply teach you everything you need to know about entering customer and supplier transactions.

Section 4: Housekeeping, error corrections and customising Sage 50 Accounts This book will teach you how to keep your data clean and safe. Learn why it is so important to backup your data and follow the backup and restore routine. The housekeeping routines will also demonstrate how to check and verify your data, giving you peace of mind before taking a backup.

Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2 Self Study Workbooks Course Overview

Section 1: Credit Control This book will guide you through the necessary credit control features held within Sage. Not only will you learn how to check credit on screen and produce reports, you will also learn how to produce statements and letters. This effective credit control can help to encourage your customers to pay on time.

Section 2: Month End See how to enter prepayments and accruals for items such as your telephone bill or monthly rent payments. Learn how to add Fixed Assets to a register and how these items can be depreciated on a monthly basis. Also, learn how to use Bank Reconciliation, making everything easier to match up.

Section 3: Reporting, VAT Returns and Year End Learn how to view and print your standard period- end management reports in Sage 50 Accounts, including Sales and Purchase Ledger reports, Profit and Loss , Balance Sheet, Budget, Audit Trail and Quick Ratio reports. Sage 50 Accounts allows you to produce and reconcile your VAT return in a few simple steps. This workbook will show you how. This workbook also explains the year-end routine and shows you how to clear the Audit Trail, process year end and prepare for your new financial year. In addition, this workbook explains how to set up multiple charts of accounts (allowing you to view different levels of detail in your management reports), how to set up multiple companies, and how to consolidate data. Learn how to use the new accountants link wizard which allows you to send data to your accountant and whilst your accountant is making your year end amendments, you can keep posting to your data. The accountants changes are then synchronized into your data at a later point.

Section 4: Management Information In this workbook you will learn how to analyse transactions using departments. Then how to produce key reports such as the profit and loss and activity reports for each of these departments. You will also explore how to produce graphs within Sage 50 Accounts, integrate with Microsoft Excel and produce cash flow information for your business. In addition, this workbook will show you how to create further companies and how to consolidate companies’ accounts.

Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 Self Study Workbooks Course Overview

Section 1 : Stock In this book you will learn how to enter your own stock records and add components to those stock codes that are made up from more than one item. You will see how to move goods in and out of a product and deal with adjusting stock levels. Learn about Project Costing which service industries use to track project progress.

Section 2 : Purchase/Sales Order Processing and Invoicing Sales Order Processing Create sales orders and see how they link to other areas within Sage 50 Accounts. Learn how to allocate stock to orders and then despatch these orders to customers. Once you have despatched an order you will see how the Sage program will automatically prompt you to create an invoice, which will then eventually appear on the customer account awaiting payment. (only available in Sage 50 Accounts Professional / Financial Controller)

Purchase Order Processing Create purchase orders to your suppliers and see how this is done from stock shortfalls on orders you have received from your customers. View and place orders on order and mark them as delivered. (only available in Sage 50 Accounts Professional / Financial Controller)

Invoice Production and Credit Notes Discover how to produce and print stock and service invoices and how to raise credit notes against invoices.

Section 3 : Bill of Materials, Stock Pricing and Period End Task Bar and Multiple Delivery Addresses A customer may have more than one office, and instead of setting up a multitude of different accounts for them, you can simply have one account and add one of their multiple delivery addresses to the invoice.

Section 4 : Periodic routines and Quotes / Proformas Quotes and Proformas You will learn how to create Proformas and Quotations, and then see how these can then be converted into invoices once your customer has accepted your quotation and the job has been completed.

Recurring Transactions and Skeletons Learn the quick effective way of recalling items that occur time and time again. No need to retype items which happen on a monthly basis, simply recall them at the touch of a button.

Year End See how to run and year end and which reports you need to refer to. Find out how to run a trouble free year end procedure.

Foreign Trader For those of you who deal with Foreign Traders on an occasional or regular basis, Sage 50 Accounts allow you to set up price lists for these traders. You will also learn how to revalue an invoice and reconcile the payment due to changes in the exchange rate.

Other Sage Accounts training options

• Sage 50 Accounts workbooks with tutor support and Sage Partner certification
• Sage 50 Accounts classroom courses
• Onsite Sage 50 Accounts training and consultancy