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Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course is a one-day course. Our price is £140.00 (Sage's RRP is £265.00). Book today to save with us.Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course

» Overview: Providing a broad summary of some of the key Sage Accounts features, ideal as refresher or overview training.

» What do I learn?

Understand the basic functions of Sage 50 Accounts. Some of the key topics include bank transactions, setting up customers and suppliers, creating and paying invoices, useful reports and taking and restoring backups.

» By the end of this course you will:

  • Know how to navigate the program and the ledgers
  • Understand how to use the bank for payments, receipts and transfers
  • Be able to set up customers and suppliers, create invoices and credit notes, pay invoices and allocate credit notes
  • Be familiar with salary journals
  • Understand how to correct mistakes
  • Be familiar with bank reconciliation
  • Be able to find key reports such as aged debtor, aged creditor, nominal activity, chart of accounts, profit and loss and balance sheet
  • Be able to check your data, take a backup and restore from a backup
Who should attend? The Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course is aimed at anyone looking to learn all the basics of Sage 50 Accounts in one day. Key modules from the Introduction course and Stages 1 and 2 have been brought in to create this crash course of the key features.

If you are looking for detailed in-depth training on Sage 50 Accounts then choose the Introduction course and follow onto Stages 1 and 2.

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Sage 50 Accounts Essentials course is a one-day course. Our price is £140.00 (Sage's RRP is £265.00).

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  • *for all courses except Instant Accounts, which is £215 and Payroll Year End, which is £190.


Detailed course content

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Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 1 - Introduction and Navigation

  • Navigating Sage 50 Accounts
  • Customising the Desktop View
  • Double Entry in Sage 50 Accounts
  • Nominal Ledger Structure
  • Tax Code Summary

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 2 - Using the Bank

  • Bank Payments
  • Bank Receipts
  • Bank Transfers

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 3 - Working with Suppliers

  • Creating a Supplier
  • Entering Supplier Invoices
  • Entering Supplier Credit Notes
  • Allocating a Supplier Credit Note
  • Paying a Supplier Invoice
  • Dealing with Payments on Account

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 4 - Working with Customers

  • Creating a Customer
  • Processing an Invoice
  • Producing an Invoice in Sage 50 Accounts
  • Printing the Invoice
  • Posting the Invoice
  • Receiving the Money

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 5 - Journals

  • Processing Journal Entries

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 6 - Correcting Mistakes

  • Finding Transactions
  • Error Correction field amendments
  • Correcting a Transaction with a Critical Error
  • Deleting a Transaction

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 7 - Bank Reconciliation

  • Starting the Bank Reconciliation process
  • Reconcile
  • Reconciled and Unreconciled Reports

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 8 - Useful Reports

  • Aged Debtors Reports
  • Nominal Activity
  • Chart of Accounts
  • The Profit and Loss
  • The Balance Sheet

Sage 50 Accounts Essentials training course session 9 - Backup and Restore

  • Check Data
  • The Backup
  • Data Restore


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