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Features and benefits of e-learning

• Cost effective
• You can re-do the course over and over again
• 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

Bookkeeping stage 1 Interactive CD ROM

A unique, easy to use, step-by-step training course based on bookkeeping and its relationship to Sage Line 50. A 3-hour course, which you can dip in and out of at your convenience, An Introduction to Manual and Sage Line 50 Bookkeeping will teach you all you need to know about double-entry bookkeeping, nominal, sales and purchase ledgers, helping you to appreciate your Sage Accounts systems.

Session 1: Basic bookkeeping skills Here you will learn what bookkeeping is all about, why accounts are kept, the purpose of the ledger system, how the nominal and chart of accounts work, and how to apply your skills to Sage Line 50 or Instant Accounts.

Session 2: Introducing double-entry bookkeeping Have you ever wondered what debits and credits are? How can you tell when something is a debit and a credit? And how does the Sage Accounts program deal with debits and credits? All this and more is revealed in this session!

Session 3: The Trial Balance report In this session you will learn what a trial balance is, why it is important to construct a trial balance, and how to create a trial balance both manually and in Sage Line 50.

Session 4: Working with your customers Known as Customers in your Sage Accounts program, this session looks at the Sales Ledger. You will learn how to record an invoice and a payment receipt, and what the effect is on your nominal accounts.

Session 5: Working with your suppliers In this session we introduce the Purchase Ledger. Known as the Suppliers area in your Sage Accounts program, you will see how to record a supplier invoice, record a payment, create a customer record, and view the Creditors Control account in Sage Line 50.

Session 6: Understanding VAT and the VAT Return Here we will explain the concept of VAT, show you how to record VAT on both sales and purchases. In Sage Line 50 you will learn how to run the VAT Return.

Session 7: Essential management reports You will see how to produce Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports manually, and then move on to produce them accurately in Sage Line 50.

Bookkeeping stage 2 Interactive CD ROM

Develop your bookkeeping knowledge with this easy to use, step-by-step CD ROM training course teaching manual accounting skills and their relationship to Sage Line 50. Advanced Manual and Sage Line 50 Bookkeeping will teach you all you need to know about more advanced bookkeeping techniques such as how to deal and account for invoices that come in quarterly (prepayments and accruals), how to deal with depreciating assets, write-offs, and how to reconcile your bank account manually and in Sage.

Session 1: Review of the fundamentals In this session we will review some of the basic principles which are key to bookkeeping, such as Double Entry, Debits and Credits, Trial Balance, Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet, and Accounting for VAT. All of these are taught in depth in the level one course. See above for details.

Session 2: Working with prepayments and accruals You pay for your electricity quarterly but use it all the time - how do you account for this? You pay for your insurance up front, but your insurance covers 12 months - how do you account for this? This session teaches how to account for prepayments and accruals - both manually and in Sage Line 50.

Session 3: Accounting for depreciation You have your van valued and discover its worth far less than what you paid for it. It has “depreciated” in value. How do you account for this in bookkeeping terms, and how does Sage Line 50 deal with the process of depreciation? In this session you will learn two methods of depreciation, and use Sage Line 50 to accurately account for depreciating assets.

Session 4: Accounting for write-offs Most of your customers pay on time, but you have a problem with one customer - and you realise it will cost you more to keep chasing the payment than it’s worth. How do you write this off as a “bad debt”? In this session you will learn exactly how to adjust your books to account for the write off, and learn how to process write-off’s in Sage Line 50.

Session 5: Reconciling your bank account You have received your bank statement today but notice that the total on your statement does not match the total in your books. You also notice that you have made some entries in your books that don’t appear on your statement, and that there are some entries on your statement that don’t appear in your books! In this session we will show you how to eradicate these anomalies through a process called "reconciliation" - both manually and in Sage Line 50.

Session 6: Applying performance measures How is the performance of your business best measured? You know it is good to make a profit and you know the about "gross" profit and "net" profit, but you hear of businesses making profits that also go bust. In this session you will learn how to calculate and interpret a number of "performance measures" - both manually and in Sage Line 50.

Other Sage Bookkeeping training options

• Sage Bookkeeping Internet courses
• Sage Bookkeeping classroom courses
• Onsite Sage Bookkeeping training and consultancy