Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 training course
Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 is a two-day course. Our price is £250.00 (Sage's RRP is £535.00).
» Overview: Understand how to take control of your stock and orders and trade overseas.
» What do I learn?
Learn about managing a stock control system and processing sales and purchase orders. This course also covers sales invoices and credit notes, quotes and pro forma invoices, as well as foreign trading and Intrastat reports.
» By the end of this course you will:
- Know how to plan and maintain stock records, post opening balances and record adjustments
- Know how to set up multiple delivery addresses for your company, your customers and suppliers
- Learn the purchase order cycle, know how to process from entry to delivery and match and post invoices to orders
- Understand product pricing and discount structures
- Learn the sales order cycle, know how to process from entry to despatch and link to other areas of Sage 50 Accounts Professional
- Know how to perform stock takes, process stock adjustments and deal with stock returns and stock month end journals
- Know how to use the Bill of Materials function to assemble finished goods from stocked components
- Be able to produce product invoices and credit notes
- Be able to produce quotes and pro-forma’s
- Be able to produce repeat invoices using recurring transactions, skeletons and duplicates
- Know how to run a stock year end and make global changes
- Know how to set up foreign trader, produce foreign currency orders and receipts and create foreign currency price lists
Book now
| Course | Centre | Start date![]() |
Duration | Total places | Available places | Book |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | Bristol | 14/09/2010 | 2 days | 10 | 5 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | Birmingham | 21/09/2010 | 2 days | 12 | 6 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | N.London | 21/09/2010 | 2 days | 12 | 2 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | Reading | 21/09/2010 | 2 days | 10 | 2 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | Leeds | 28/09/2010 | 2 days | 12 | 5 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | Newcastle | 18/10/2010 | 2 days | 12 | 10 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | N.London | 19/10/2010 | 2 days | 12 | 7 | |
| Sage 50 Accounts Stg 3 | Croydon | 28/10/2010 | 2 days | 12 | 7 |
Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 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.
Important notes about booking your Sage classroom training course
- 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
Click to see the course content
Session 1 - Planning a Stock System
- Planning your Product Codes
- Creating Product Categories
- Using Product Defaults
Session 2 - Creating Product Records
- Creating your Product Records
- Editing Product Records
- Importing Product Records
Session 3 - Cost of Sales & Opening Balances
- Profit: Stock and Cost of Sales
- Nominal Ledger: Posting Opening Stock
- Correcting Opening Balance Errors
Session 4 - Preparing for Purchase Order Processing
- Creating Multiple Delivery Addresses
- Setting up Supplier Price Lists and Discounts
- Setting Your Purchase Order Defaults
- Printing a Re-Order List
Session 5 - Purchase Order Processing
- Understanding the Purchase Order Cycle
- Entering a Purchase Order
- Placing the Order
- Receiving Delivery of Orders
- Updating the Ledgers
Session 6 - Customer Discounts
- Discount Structures and Types
- Discount Settings
Session 7 - Preparing for Sales Order Processing
- Creating Customer Delivery Addresses
- Setting up Customer Price Lists and Special Prices
- Setting your Sales Order Defaults
- Allowing Negative Stock
Session 8 - Sales Order Processing
- Understanding the Sales Order Cycle
- Entering a New Sales Order
- Allocating a Sales Order
- Processing Shortfalls
- Despatching an Order
- Processing a Cash Sale
Session 9 - Stock Take & Period End
- Physical Stock Take: Reports
- Stock Take Adjustments
- Processing Stock Returns
- Period End Process
Session 10 - Bill of Materials (BOM)
- Understanding the Bill of Materials
- Creating a Bill of Materials
- Check Components Shortage
- Assembling a Bill of Materials
Session 11 - Quotes, Invoices & Credit Notes
- Understanding Quote Defaults
- Creating a Quote to be Converted into an Invoice
- Creating a Quote to be converted into a Sales Order
- The Invoicing Module
- Creating Credit Notes
- Updating Ledgers
- Proformas
Session 12 - Recurring Transactions, Skeletons & Duplicates
- Setting up and Processing Recurring Transactions
- Using Skeleton Transactions
- Duplicating Orders and Invoices
Session 13 - Year End & Global Changes
- Year End Procedures
- Clearing the Stock History
- Stock Global Changes
Session 14 - Foreign Trade
- EC VAT Descriptions
- Foreign Currency Invoices and Orders
- Foreign Bank Revaluation
- Editing Revaluation Rates
Other relevant links
- Sage 50 Accounts training menu
- Introduction to Bookkeeping (1 day)
- Sage 50 Accounts essentials course(1 day)
- Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts (1 day)
- Sage 50 Accounts stage 1 (2 days)
- Sage 50 Accounts stage 2 (2 days)
- Sage 50 Accounts Official Accreditation



