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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 training course

Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 is a two-day course. Our price is £250.00 (Sage's RRP is £535.00).Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1

» Overview: Discover how to do day to day jobs and tasks. If you're new to Sage 50, do consider taking the Introduction course first.

» What do I learn?

Understand the core operations of Sage 50 Accounts. Some of the key topics include processing invoices, credit notes and payments, managing the sales ledger, posting bank payments and receipts, error correction and protecting data.

» By the end of this course you will:

  • Know how to enter supplier invoices and credit notes
  • Be able to post supplier payments including printing remittance advices, cheques and using e-banking
  • Know how to create and print service invoices and credit notes for customers
  • Be able to post customer receipts and understand how to manage the Sales Ledger, including disputing invoices
  • Be able to post supplier payments and understand how to manage the Purchase Ledger
  • Understand how to deal with contra entries
  • Be familiar with posting bank and cash transactions
  • Learn how to save time by using Recurring Entries
  • Understand how to interrogate data using searches to enable more accurate reporting
  • Know how to check and safeguard data using backups
  • Understand how to correct errors
  • Know how to post and correct Journal Entries
  • Be able to process customer payments and supplier refunds

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Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Bristol07/09/20102 days105
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Croydon07/09/20102 days120
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1N.London07/09/20102 days120
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Manchester08/09/20102 days120
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Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Croydon21/09/20102 days120
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Leeds21/09/20102 days122
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Birmingham28/09/20102 days121
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Manchester04/10/20102 days123
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1N.London05/10/20102 days128
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Leeds05/10/20102 days1211
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Newcastle07/10/20102 days1211
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Glasgow11/10/20102 days1212
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1N.London12/10/20102 days129
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Croydon12/10/20102 days126
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Bristol12/10/20102 days109
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Birmingham18/10/20102 days129
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1Reading18/10/20102 days1210
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1N.London19/10/20102 days1211
Sage 50 Accounts Stg 1N.London25/10/20102 days1212

Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 is a two-day course. Our price is £250.00 (Sage's RRP is £535.00).

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).
  • Phone: Just call 0845 009 3990 to pay by card or arrange BACS or cheque payments.
  • Use the contact form: Click here and fill out the contact form.

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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 - Supplier Invoices & Credit Notes

  • Batch supplier invoice posting
  • Entering Batch Data
  • Memorise and Recall of invoices
  • Batch supplier credit note posting

Session 2 - Supplier Payments

  • Report to compile list of debts
  • Payment In Full & Part Payments
  • Dealing with Discounts
  • Dealing with Credit Notes
  • Dealing with Payments on Account

Session 3 - Supplier Print Routines & E-Payments

  • Remittances
  • Batch Payments
  • Cheque Printing
  • To set up and use E-Banking

Session 4 - Customer Invoices and Credit Notes

  • Batch Customer Invoice and Credit Note Posting
  • Creating and Printing Service Invoices
  • Duplicating Invoices
  • Deposits (Accounts Plus and Accounts Professional only)
  • Cash Sales

Session 5 - Managing the Sales Ledger

  • Posting Customer Receipts
  • Bank Defaults
  • Sage Pay
  • Customer Payments
  • Using the Write Off/Refund Wizard
  • Disputed Transactions

Session 6 - Contra Entries

  • To process Contra entries
  • Account activity

Session 7 - Bank Payments, Bank Receipts & Bank Transfers

  • Posting Bank Receipts
  • Setting up the Cash Register
  • Bank Payments
  • Bank Transfers
  • Cash Register Transfers

Session 8 - Recurring Entries

  • Creating a Recurring Entry
  • Processing Recurring Entries
  • Account Postings

Session 9 - Journal Entries

  • Processing Journal Entries
  • Memorising Journals
  • Notes on Skeleton Journals

Session 10 - Safeguarding your Data

  • Check Data
  • Backing up your Data
  • Data Restore

Session 11 - Search

  • Global Search
  • Multiple searches
  • Wild cards

Session 12 - Checking Transactions

  • The Audit Trail
  • On screen enquiries
  • Sales/Purchases Tab
  • The Dashboards
  • Useful reports

Session 13 - Error Corrections

  • Correcting an Error
  • Correcting a Transaction with an incorrect Nominal Code
  • Deleting a Transaction
  • Amending VAT Reconciled Transactions
  • Correcting Journals


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