What they will learn

To help accounting staff quickly acquaint themselves with the Sage Line 50 range of programs in order that they may use it for the day-to-day accounts maintenance and the preparation of final accounts.

For staff not familiar with all aspects of accounting principles there will be additional material covered to ensure a full understanding of the program.

Course Outline

Setting up the accounts structure

- Sales, purchase and nominal ledgers

- Changing the default accounts

Sales ledger

- Setting up new Customers

- Entering invoices

- Producing statements

- Debt control

- Amendments and cancelled cheques

Purchase ledger

- Setting up new Suppliers

- Entering purchases and payments

- Amendments

- Contra entries

- Printing a Remittance Advice

Nominal ledger

- Journal entries

- Bank reconciliations

Reports

- VAT returns

- Producing a trial balance

- Profit and loss and balance sheet

- Creating special reports

Stock control

Budget control

Invoicing

- Invoicing from stock

- Free form invoices

Using Excel to analyse Sage data

Utilities

- Backup procedures

- Making corrections