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Sage 50 Accounts Professional
Top level Accounting software

Sage 50 Accounts Professional (which was previously Sage Line 50 Financial Controller) is designed for businesses that require more than 2 concurrent users (up to 10 multi users are available, have foreign bank accounts and trading and who use either Sales or Purchase Order Processing.

Building on Sage 50 Accounts and Sage 50 Accounts Plus the Professional version is the ultimate Sage 50 package having all the great features of the other 2 packages plus Cash Sales and Intrastat support.

Again like the Plus variant Sage 50 Accounts Professional is very popular with many charities who wish to use the ordering functionality.

Additional features of Financial Controller include:

Sage 50 Accounts Professional Network Capability:

• Multi user Sage Accounts – if you need more than 2 concurrent users then Sage Accounts Professional is the package for you. It is the only variant that allows this.

Sage 50 Accounts Professional helping you look after your customers and suppliers:

• Sales Order Processing – Raise an order, allocate the stock, track the dispatch of goods and follow through to invoicing and receipt of payment with one easy to follow process.
• Purchase Order Processing – Create a new PO, place it on order, record delivery of goods (full or partial), update the PO when the invoice arrives and manage payment of your suppliers all from the same place.
• Foreign trade and Foreign bank reconciliation – If you trade in a foreign currency you want to record your transactions in a foreign currency. Sage Financial Controller allows you to do just this with invoicing, receipts and payments and bank reconciliation all in your desired currency.

Sage 50 Accounts Professional managing your stock:

• Cash Sales – if you have cash till this is ideal as it enables you to issue if required an invoice to the customer as well as allocating stock.

Sage 50 Accounts Professional improving your finances:

• Repeat orders – Create skeleton journals, sales invoices and orders. If you regularly raise the same or similar documents then this time saving feature will pay for itself in no time at all.

All these powerful ordering and foreign trading features come on-top of everything you receive in Sage 50 Accounts and Sage 50 Accounts Plus too.

For entry level Sage Accounting Software see Sage 50 Accounts for charities

For Project costing and more powerful accounting functionality see Sage 50 Accounts Plus for charities

The Sage 50 Family

Sage 50 Accounts Professional is the cornerstone of the Sage 50 range. You can link Sage Accounts to Sage Payroll, Sage ACT! (contact management), Sage Forecasting and Sage 50 HR for a truly all-round business solution where the right people in the business get the right information when they need it.

Features and Benefits of Sage Accounts Professional

Sage 50 Accounts Professional (before version 13 this was known as Sage Line 50 Financial Controller) is part of the Sage 50 range that in 2011 have made the top 50 UK Superbrands. It is accredited by the ICAEW and recommended by over 90% of accountants in the UK. Accounts Professional is designed for 1 to 10 concurrent users.

Key Features of Accounts Professional include:

Foreign trading & multi-currency

Process foreign currency transactions and keep track of your assets. See at a glance foreign currency bank balances and correct any transaction errors

Multiple user license

Sage 50 Accounts Professional allows up to 10 concurrent users

Multi-company license

Produce consolidated accounts for all of your businesses, giving you tighter control of your finances across different companies and departments

Purchase order processing

Create orders, allocate and dispatch stock, produce delivery notes, be informed of stock shortfalls and automatically generate a purchase order

Customer Order Management

Allows them to manage stock allocations, preferred customers and keep tighter control of what is to be dispatched, invoiced and to be returned returns

Supplier Order Management

Easily identify what is on order, what is due for delivery and needs to be reordered - making sure you're always on top of your stock levels. You can also automate the process of reconciling invoices against purchase orders, saving you time

Advanced Budgeting tools

The advanced budget management feature gives you much tighter control over your budgets, allowing you to spot issues easily & take action

The features above are in addition to those found in Sage 50 Accounts Plus as seen below:

Set up and manage projects

The Project Costing feature lets you set up specific projects - for specific products, customers or suppliers- and closely monitor the budget and cost of each project

Flexible pricing options

Set up flexible price lists individual customers, meaning you don't have to waste manually configure pricing or applying discounts

Batch Processing

Batch processing of quotes will save you time, keep your customers happy & improve your cash flow

Stock Management tools

As your business grows you'll need to know how much stock to hold. The advanced stock management and Bill of Materials will help you optimise your stock levels - know exactly what's in your warehouse & stock room & plan accurately for the future

Asset Management

Automate journal processes for depreciation and write off, saving you time and reducing the risk of making costly mistakes

The features above are in addition to those found in Sage 50 Accounts as seen below:

The Sage 50 Accounts sales cycle

From preparing a quote, through to Sales orders. Proforma invoices and invoicing Sage 50 has everything to make the paperwork of the sales cycle as simple as possible

Pay Now Option & NEW Web Store Integration

The new “Pay Now” option is now embedded within emailed PDF invoices. This gives your customer the opportunity to pay your invoice immediately upon receipt.

Sage 50 accounts 2011 automatically integrates with your web store using SagePay through a wizard so you can, create new customer and new products records, match with current customers and products and create new invoices and receipts.

New Department Budgets

You can set budgets for each department and review progress against them. So you’ll know immediately how the individual areas of your business are performing.

Sage 50 CIS Module available

New fields have been added on customer and supplier records required for the new CIS scheme Sage 50 CIS will submit both the Monthly Online Tax Return (CIS 300) and perform electronic verification of subcontractor information.

Advanced Data Import

The advanced data import tool allows you to import data from excel as well as CSV files making it much more flexible. It will also now allow you to map the columns of data in your file to the accounts import structure.

Flat Rate VAT

Sage 50 Accounts 2011 has the ability to also deal with Flat Rate VAT scheme, produce the relevant VAT returns and stay compliant with the HMRC.

Compatible with Microsoft Office 2010

Sage 50 Accounts 2011 is the only Sage accounts program that is compatible with the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010.

Improved Charities Capability

New set of reports especially created for non-profit organisations such as fund specific balance sheet and Profit and Loss by one or several funds at a time.

ECSL VAT changes

Sage 50 automatically accounts for submissions to be split by Goods and Services to abide by the legislation.

Drillable Reporting

See top-level figures, nominal code grouping and detailed transaction information with drillable reports.

Multiple Contacts

Sage 50 Accounts allows you to store details of multiple contacts in supplier and customer records. You may have different contacts for placing orders, sending invoices and statements etc.

Cash register

The cash register will help you account for and bank takings, track discrepancies and manage your float.

Sage 50 Accounts Professional is a complete business management system that offers much more than accounting functionality. Sage 50 Accounts Professional streamlines finance routines but promotes efficient stock management and effective dealings with customers and suppliers.

System requirements

To get the best possible performance from your Sage software, it's important to check that your PC meets the minimum requirements of the software and, where possible, the recommended requirements.

Recommended requirements

• An IBM®-compatible computer with a 2GHz (or equivalent) processor
• At least 1GB RAM
• At least 1GB of free disk space after Microsoft® Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 1Gbps network with Microsoft Windows networking
• Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

Performance will be improved with higher specification computers and networks, and it only possible to install one copy on a single computer.

Works with Microsoft Office 2000 and all later editions, and please ensure you have the latest Microsoft updates installed.

This product will not install or run on the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, or Windows NT4 operating systems.

Minimum requirements

• An IBM-compatible computer with a 1GHz (or equivalent) processor
• 512MB RAM
• 700MB of free disk space after Microsoft Windows has been installed
• Network users only: 100Mbps network with Microsoft Windows networking
• Display Settings: 1024 x 768 resolution

One of the following operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows XP (Recommended)
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7

Apple Mac compatibility

Sage software is not compatible with Apple Macs, unless you are running Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 via Apple’s Boot Camp utility.

Sage 50 Accounts Training

Call us on 0845 009 3990 if you wish to discuss your training requirements and bookings with an advisor, or, if you prefer, purchase your training online with 100% security through the fastest checkout on the web.

Self-study Options for Sage 50 Accounts
These official Sage self-study options are low cost and offer high quality content. Sage workbooks, CDs & online training will provide you with the skills you need to get the best from your software while allowing you to learn at your leisure.

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Classroom Training for Sage 50 Accounts
This is the top Sage training in the UK and our advice is always to book up as soon as you can as places are limited. The courses are comprehensive and will get you to where you want to be quickly. You can book one and two day courses or save money by purchasing a ten day passport.

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Onsite Training for Sage 50 Accounts
Take control over what you learn and the pace of learning. With bespoke onsite training the training you receive is the training you most need. As with most software, it is unlikely you'll use every single feature of the program, onsite training lets you refine the training day(s) to the exact areas of training that you will gain most benefit from having a good level of understanding.

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