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SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS TRAINING COURSES

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS TRAINING COURSES
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The training programme will take you from navigation through to creating and amending various records to enabling you to get the most from your software on a day to day basis ( Stage 1).You will discover the tools to help you analyse your finances, (Stage 2) and learn to master the tools you need to take control of your stock and orders, including trading overseas, (Stage 3.)

 

INTRODUCTION TO SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS

The perfect place to start if you’re new to Sage 50 Accounts

WHAT DO I LEARN?

Get a firm understanding of the basic principles of Sage 50 Accounts, from navigation through to creating and amending various records, getting started with opening balances and controlling user access.
COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course you will:

 

  • Be familiar with the Sage 50 Accounts user interface
  • Understand how to use password protection and how to restrict user access
  • Understand basic configuration, financial year settings, and setting up tax codes
  • Know how to create, amend and delete nominal accounts
  • Know how to create bank, cash and credit card accounts
  • Understand the role of the Chart of Accounts, and how to amend it
  • Know how to enter budget information and create departments
  • Know how to create, amend and delete customer and supplier accounts
  • Be able to enter opening balances for nominal, customer and supplier accounts

 

Where next?

Learn more about the core operations with Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1.

Other options

Self Study courses for Sage 50 Accounts are also available.

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Introduction to Sage Bookkeeping
  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1
  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2

 

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS - STAGE 1

Discover how to get the most from your software on a day-to-day basis.

If you’re new to this software, we recommend you take Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts before attending this course.

 

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 your data.

 

Course objectives

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

 

WHERE NEXT?

Take the next step with Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2.

Other options

Self Study courses for Sage 50 Accounts are also available.

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts
  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2
  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3

 

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS STAGE 2

Discover the tools that let you analyse your finances

What do I learn?

Take an in-depth look at the processes for Month End, Year End, credit control, VAT return and Microsoft® Office integration. It also covers depreciation, prepayments and accruals, recurring entries and key performance indicators.

 

Course objectives

  • Know how to perform a bank reconciliation
  • Understand how to manage credit control, including statements and overdue letters
  • Be able to write off bad debts and perform a VAT reclaim
  • Know how to set up the Fixed Asset Register, post depreciation journals and dispose of fixed assets
  • Understand how to post prepayments and accruals
  • Be able to produce financial reports, including the Profit & Loss report and Balance Sheet
  • Know how to set budget information and use departments for additional analysis
  • Understand how to integrate Sage 50 Accounts with  Microsoft® Office
  • Be able to produce, check and submit a VAT Return
  • Know how to prepare for, and run the Year End routine
  • Be able to create multiple company accounts for associated companies or branches

 

WHERE NEXT?

Take the final step with Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3.

Other options

Self Study courses for Sage 50 Accounts are also available.

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1
  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3
  • Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Microsoft® Office

 

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS STAGE 3

Master the tools you need to take control of your stock and orders, including trading overseas

 

WHAT DO I LEARN?

Learn everything you need to know 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.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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
  • Be familiar with 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
  • Be familiar with 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

 

WHERE NEXT?

Other options

Self Study courses for Sage 50 Accounts are also available.

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Sage 50 Accounts Report Design
  • Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Microsoft® Office
  • Sage 50 Accounts Project Costing

 

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS 2010 UPGRADES

Learn how to get the most from the new features of Sage 50 Accounts 2010.

 

 

WHAT DO I LEARN?

Discover everything you need to know about the new features of Sage 50 Accounts 2010. Focusing on managing your VAT and online submissions, taking credit card payments, management reports and dealing with discounts.

 

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course you will:

  • Have been introduced to the welcome screen, Sage software updates, tutorials and practice company, error corrections and file import.
  • Understand reporting, departments and budgets, cashflow improvements and copying the chart of accounts.
  • Know how to use the bank reconciliation.
  • Be familiar with the VAT Ledger, manual adjustments, online submissions and EC sales descriptions.
  • Know how to use the diary module to create tasks and different types of events linking this in with Outlook.
  • Understand additional fields on customer and supplier records, recurring entries and dashboards.
  • Understand customer and supplier batch payment, Sage Payment Solutions, automatic credit note matching, how to process refunds, Sage Pay integration, record cash using Cash Register.

 

WHAT'S NEXT?

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Sage 50 Accounts Report Design
  • Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Microsoft® Office
  • Sage 50 Accounts Project Costing

 

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS REPORT DESIGN

Unlock the full power of Sage 50 Accounts Report Designer and fully customise your reports and layouts.

WHAT DO I LEARN?

Become an expert at amending and creating reports/layouts, adding totals, filters and also ranges for more specific analysis.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course you will:

  • Know how to create new reports using the report wizard, amend fixed reports, select variables, sort information and amend the page layout
  • Be able to insert calculations into a report and change the presentation of information
  • Know how to improve presentation by adding sub-totals and grand totals
  • Understand how to add filters to a report to select specific information
  • Be able to split debits and credits and produce meaningful transaction totals
  • Know how to add ranges to a report
  • Be familiar with selection filters, advanced filters and advanced criteria
  • Know how to create overdue account letters and sales promotions using specific criteria and expressions
  • Know how to amend an existing invoice layout or create one from scratch

 

WHAT'S NEXT?

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Linking Sage 50 Accounts to Microsoft® Office
  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1
  • Microsoft® Excel Stage 2

 

LINKING SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS TO MICROSOFT OFFICE

Get the very most from your accounts data

WHAT DO I LEARN?

Learn everything you need to know about how Microsoft® Office can integrate with Sage 50 Accounts. It includes dynamically linking spreadsheets in Excel, running mail merges in Word and creating live links to PowerPoint presentations.


COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course you will:

  • Have had a basic introduction to the ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) driver
  • Be able to navigate around the menu options available in Microsoft® Query
  • Know how to update the live link between the query and Sage 50 Accounts using the refresh option
  • Understand how to add both single and multiple calculations to a query, then return the data to Microsoft® Excel and format the cells
  • Be able to run a mail merge within Microsoft® Word to link the data in Sage 50 Accounts to a Word document
  • Know how to create labelled envelopes from the names and addresses in Sage 50 Accounts
  • Understand how to use the If…Then…Else statement within Microsoft® Word
  • Be able to use multiple tables within Microsoft® Excel and join the tables together
  • Know how to use the cycle through totals option in Microsoft® Query
  • Be able to create graphs in Microsoft® Excel based on data from Sage 50 Accounts and create a live link to Microsoft® PowerPoint
  • Know how to create pivot tables and charts in Microsoft® Excel to dynamically interrogate the Sage 50 Accounts data
  • Know how to add criteria to select specific data from Sage 50 Accounts
  • Be able to set up parameter queries to enable specific ranges to be entered when requesting data from Sage 50 Accounts

 

Where next?

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2
  • Microsoft® Excel Stage 1
  • Microsoft® Excel Stage 2

 

 

SAGE 50 ACCOUNTS PROJECT COSTING

Learn how to fully manage ongoing projects with Sage 50 Accounts projects module.

WHAT DO I LEARN?

Take a comprehensive look at the project lifecycle including costs, budgeting, resources, charges and billing.


COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course you will:

  • Be familiar with Project Costing and understand how to configure the module
  • Be able to set up Cost Types and Cost Codes
  • Know how to create and enter Project Records and Sub-Projects
  • Understand how to assign invoices, bank payments etc to projects
  • Be able to record committed costs
  • Understand the concept and use of resources, project charges and credits
  • Be familiar with project reporting, activity and on screen enquiries
  • Understand Billing and Project closure

 

WHERE NEXT?

Customers who completed this course also attended:

  • Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3
  • Sage 50 Accounts 2009 Upgrade Course

 

Email info@thymetraining.com or phone UK 0844 3350471, ROI 048 3839 1799 for further details.