Sage 50 Accounts 2017 Complete Course- Beginner to Advanced

Sage 50 accounts are the premium business management software in demand at the moment for small to medium sized businesses around United Kingdom. This software is designed to help you manage your company’s accounting needs in a simple and straightforward manner. But if you want to utilize this great product, you need to know how to use it right; and that is why we have created this [course_title] for you.

This course has it all starting from the basics to advanced level instructions to help you master the Sage 50 accounts program. You will learn basic things like setting up the program, using the user interface and basic management of company details; until you move onto more advanced stuff like utilizing quotes and implementing customer discounts in different ways. You will also discover clear objectives in every chapter in order to help you identify the key points.

Overall this is a great course as the Sage 50 softwares can help you save money and time, which can be better utilized to grow your business. So if you want all your accounting related problems to go away, get this course now.

Who is the course for?

• For beginners who are getting started with handling accounts.
• People who are interested in managing accounts through Sage 50 software.

Assessment:

• At the end of the course, you will be required to sit an online multiple-choice test. Your test will be assessed automatically and immediately so that you will instantly know whether you have been successful.
• Before sitting for your final exam, you will have the opportunity to test your proficiency with a mock exam.

Certification:

• After you have successfully passed the test, you will be able to obtain an Accredited Certificate of Achievement.You can however also obtain a Course Completion Certificate following the course completion without sitting for the test. Certificates can be obtained either in hardcopy at the cost of £39 or in PDF format at the cost of £24.

Requirements

Our Sage 50 Accounts Complete Course-Beginner to Advanced is fully compatible with any kind of device. Whether you are using Windows computer, Mac, smartphones or tablets, you will get the same experience while learning. Besides that, you will be able to access the course with any kind of internet connection from anywhere at any time without any kind of limitation.

Please Note: For practice purpose, you should have Sage 50 software installed on your PC. The software is not included with this course. Sage provide a free online trial version of the Sage 50 Accounts software, which is more than suitable to study this course and learn how to use the software. You will get the full instructions for downloading free Sage 50 Software in your course page.

Course Curriculum:

Sage 50 Accounts for Beginner

Module 1: Program Basics– Set up your program, discover more about the user interface such as toolbar and keyboard options

Module 2: Restoring and Backing-up Data – Learn about data storage, creating back-ups and restoring them

Module 3: Basic Setting and Details – Manage financial dates, company details and program dates

Module 4: The Chart of Accounts – Create, modify and review chart of accounts

Module 5: Bank Receipts – Enter bank receipts

Module 6: Bank Payments – Oversee VAT, overheads, assets and bank payments

Module 7: Financials – Observe the financial state of your company

Module 8: Customers – Add new customers, use the new customer wizard, and manage their details

Module 9: Suppliers – Add and edit supplier records

Module 10: Working with Lists – Utilize lists to sort out records

Module 11: Batch Invoices – Create customer invoices, check bank accounts and nominals

Module 12: Service Invoices – Create service, manage line and invoice

Module 13: Processing Invoices – Process invoices and update ledgers

Module 14: Product and Services – Duplicate, add items, services and products

Module 15: Stock Control – Control your stocks through adjustments, activity and returns

Module 16: Product Invoices – Invoice management for products utilizing multiple platforms

Module 17: Product Credit Notes – Create credit notes

Module 18: Reviewing Your Accounts – Review the financial state of your company

Module 19: Aged Debtors and Statements – Analyse account balances, aged debtors, statements and customer communication history

Module 20: Customer Receipts – Allocate receipts automatically, manually or partially using discounts and payments on account

Module 21: Customer Activity – Observe customer activity

Module 22: Supplier Batch Invoices – Add new suppliers, their account balances and batch invoices

Module 23: Supplier Payments – Record and observe supplier payments, activity, print remittance and cheques

Module 24: More about the Nominal Ledger – Journal entries, nominal code activity, ledger graphs and records

Module 25: More about bank accounts – Learn about bank transfers, combined payments and petty cash transactions

Module 26: Using the Cash Register – Recording and depositing with the cash register

Module 27: Bank Reconciliation – Reconcile bank account and carry out group transactions

Module 28: Recurring Entries – Recurring entry processes including bank set up, adding journals, and deleting recurring entries

Module 29: VAT Returns – Produce, make, print, reconcile and complete VAT related transactions

Module 30: More About Reports – Follow the audit trail, period trial balance, profit and loss, and the balance sheet report

Module 31: Using Dashboards – Use the dashboards effectively

Sage 50 Accounts Intermediate Level

Module 1: Prepayments and Accruals – Setting up, processing and deleting prepayments & accruals.

Module 2: Fixed Assets & Depreciation – Understand the difference between assets and depreciation and their relationship in multiple forms.

Module 3: Delivery Address – Manage Company and customer’s delivery addresses

Module 4: Purchase Orders – Learn how to enter, edit, duplicate, print and process purchase orders

Module 5: Memorising Purchase Orders – Memorise and recall purchase orders

Module 6: Recording Deliveries – Manage delivery system for your clients on an elaborate scale

Module 7: More About Purchase Orders – Utilizing purchase orders in reference to supplier invoice and reports

Module 8: BOMs & Product Transfer – Create and Check BOMs and manage product transfers

Module 9: Product Pricing Options – Provide special prices, create, delete and move customers in price lists

Module 10: Sales Orders – Enter and manage sales orders, discounts and goods

Module 11: Recurring Sales Orders – Create, process and edit recurring sales orders

Module 12: Processing Sales Orders – Print, change, report sales orders and allocate stock, use Shortfall feature and much more

Module 13: Using Filters and Search – Use, set, save and clear filter options

Module 14: Credit Control – Learn about credit control basics

Module 15: Chasing Debts and Debt Analysis – Understand the chase debt view, send statements, account letters, add a communication and debt analysis

Module 16: Disputed Invoices – Recording disputes with customers, setting up dispute reasons, apply dispute in an invoice and clearing it

Module 17: Customer Refunds – Enter payment, process refunds and check transaction details

Module 18: Late Payment Legislation – Set up system for late payment, setting the customer record for credit charges, using credit charges wizard, and checking transaction details

Module 19: Writing Off Bad Debts –Write off bad debt, delete recurring sales and setting inactive flags

Module 20: Cash Flow Forecasting – Cash flow forecast, include and exclude bank accounts, sales and purchases

Sage 50 Accounts Advanced Level

Module 1: Company Review – Reviewing customer receipts, batch payments, and VAT reconciliation

Module 2: Cost of Sales (Closing Stock) – Calculating cost of sales, stock value, utilizing stock wizard

Module 3: Importing Data – importing customer records and other data

Module 4: Batch and Global Changes – Using batch changes and global changes on sales prices and from a supplier

Module 5: Customer Discounts – Discounts by invoice value, product quantity, copying a discount matrix, applying discounts to customer records and other discount methods

Module 6: Quotations –Learn about quotations and converting them, create a quotation and service quotes, and print quotations

Module 7: Winning and Losing Quotations – Winning and losing quotes, opening lost quotation and winning it, ordering stock and processing converted invoices

Module 8: Pro Froma Invoices – Creating a froma invoice, processing a payment on account, converting a pro froma to a real invoice and allocating payment on account

Module 9: Contra Entries – Adding supplier invoice and entering contra entries

Module 10: The Audit Trail – Viewing and clearing audit trail, exporting to excel, printing audit trail report, and locking the date to prevent postings

Module 11: Corrections – Adding some incorrect transaction, Journal reversals, correcting posted transactions, checking petty cash activity and file maintenance

Module 12: Passwords and Access Rights – Setting company password, access rights and checking the access rights menu option

Module 13: Setting a Budget – Choosing the standard budgeting method, entering budget details, variances, nominal ledger, and basing budgets

Module 14: Setting up Departments – Setting up departments, departmental balance sheet, nominal analysis reports and much more

Module 15: Departmental Budgets – Choosing an advanced budgeting method, setting departmental budget, adding departmental budget figures, variance reports

Module16: Project Costing – Activating project costing, project cost configuration, setting up resources

Module 17: Project Costing Example – Creating & editing projects, project budget, allocating stock, project charges and activity

Module 18: Project Completion – Raising sales invoice, project analysis, credits, enquiry, reports and marking and deleting projects

Module 19: Report Designer Basic Skills –Using report designer, opening report layout, switching between preview and designer view, working with objects, adding text and variable objects, editing text object, simple formatting, closing report designer, and more

Module20: Report Designer Wizard – Utilizing report wizard to create, save, use new reports, editing report layout and adding criteria

Module 21: Report Designer Extra – Adding graphics, active complete, deleting layouts, reports, and letters

Module 22: Foreign Trader and Currencies – Foreign trader and currencies, setting up foreign trader options, currency table, and foreign currency bank account

Module 23: Invoices and Payments in Euros – Checking European customer record, creating invoice in euros, receiving payments

Module 24: Foreign Currency Suppliers and Payments – adding foreign suppliers, purchase good in euros and kronor, paying in euros from euro bank account, paying foreign supplier from a GBP bank account