What will you get out of it?

*       Ability to extract information from the screen and as printed
reports
*       Control of important book-keeping procedures such as Journals, Bank
Reconciliation, Month End and VAT reports
*       An understanding of set-up considerations and procedures such as
planning the Chart of Accounts and entering Opening Balances


Course overview

Day 1 - Overview of Sage Line 50 Accounts

*       Setting up the Sage Accounts System: Setting defaults and
preferences
*       Planning and creating a chart of accounts
*       Setting program options
*       Entering opening balances
*       Altering and designing stationery layouts
*       Sales Ledger: Creating SAGE accounts
*       Entering manually prepared invoices & credit notes
*       Producing free text Invoices via Invoice Production
*       Skeleton Invoices
*       Refunds and write-offs

Day 2

*       Contra Entries
*       Purchase Ledger: Creating accounts
*       Entering invoices & credit notes
*       Disputing Invoices
*       Bank Transactions: Supplier Payments; Customer Receipts; Bank
Payments and Receipts;
*       Petty Cash Payments and Receipts
*       Credit Card Payments
*       Bank Transfers
*       Bank Reconciliation
*       Cheque Printing

Day 3

*       Nominal Ledger: Overview; Nominal Ledger reports; Journal entries;
Skeleton journals
*       Assets Register: Creating Categories. Recording Assets
*       VAT: Preparing the VAT Analysis Report
*       Reconciling transactions
*       General Maintenance: Backup and Restore; Error Correction
*       Criterion searches
*       Use of shortcut keys
*       Reports
*       Month End Procedures: Recurring Entries; Prepayments & Accruals.
Depreciation; Closing off