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Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course training course

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course is a one-day course. Our price is £130.00 (Sage's RRP is £265.00).Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course

» Overview: Providing a broad summary of some of the key Sage Accounts features, ideal as refresher or overview training.

» What do I learn?

Understand the basic functions of Sage 50 Accounts. Some of the key topics include bank transactions, setting up customers and suppliers, creating and paying invoices, useful reports and taking and restoring backups.

» By the end of this course you will:

  • Know how to navigate the program and the ledgers
  • Understand how to use the bank for payments, receipts and transfers
  • Be able to set up customers and suppliers, create invoices and credit notes, pay invoices and allocate credit notes
  • Be familiar with salary journals
  • Understand how to correct mistakes
  • Be familiar with bank reconciliation
  • Be able to find key reports such as aged debtor, aged creditor, nominal activity, chart of accounts, profit and loss and balance sheet
  • Be able to check your data, take a backup and restore from a backup
Who should attend? The Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course is aimed at anyone looking to learn all the basics of Sage 50 Accounts in one day. Key modules from the Introduction course and Stages 1 and 2 have been brought in to create this crash course of the key features.

If you are looking for detailed in-depth training on Sage 50 Accounts then choose the Introduction course and follow onto Stages 1 and 2.

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Sage 50 Accounts EssentialsLeeds08/10/20101 day1211
Sage 50 Accounts EssentialsBristol11/10/20101 day109
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Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course is a one-day course. Our price is £130.00 (Sage's RRP is £265.00).

You can book your course in several ways:

  • Online: Just click the "Book now" button (your payment will only be processed after we have booked your course with Sage).
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  • When booking a course online, if the course is not for the paying cardholder, please enter the name it should be booked for in the notes section when paying.
  • If a vegetarian meal is required instead of the standard meal provided, please enter this in the notes section as well.
  • If a course is showing no availability it is still worth contacting us as there maybe cancellations or the possibility of switching the course to a bigger room.
  • Also note that the number of available places given is updated regularly, but it is not live, so it's always best to ask us for the latest availability if the number of available places is running low.
  • *for all courses except Instant Accounts, which is £215 and Payroll Year End, which is £190.


Detailed course content

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Session 1 - Introduction and Navigation

  • Navigating Sage 50 Accounts
  • Customising the Desktop View
  • Double Entry in Sage 50 Accounts
  • Nominal Ledger Structure
  • Tax Code Summary

Session 2 - Using the Bank

  • Bank Payments
  • Bank Receipts
  • Bank Transfers

Session 3 - Working with Suppliers

  • Creating a Supplier
  • Entering Supplier Invoices
  • Entering Supplier Credit Notes
  • Allocating a Supplier Credit Note
  • Paying a Supplier Invoice
  • Dealing with Payments on Account

Session 4 - Working with Customers

  • Creating a Customer
  • Processing an Invoice
  • Producing an Invoice in Sage 50 Accounts
  • Printing the Invoice
  • Posting the Invoice
  • Receiving the Money

Session 5 - Journals

  • Processing Journal Entries

Session 6 - Correcting Mistakes

  • Finding Transactions
  • Error Correction field amendments
  • Correcting a Transaction with a Critical Error
  • Deleting a Transaction

Session 7 - Bank Reconciliation

  • Starting the Bank Reconciliation process
  • Reconcile
  • Reconciled and Unreconciled Reports

Session 8 - Useful Reports

  • Aged Debtors Reports
  • Nominal Activity
  • Chart of Accounts
  • The Profit and Loss
  • The Balance Sheet

Session 9 - Backup and Restore

  • Check Data
  • The Backup
  • Data Restore



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