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SAGE Line 50 Course

  • Duration:2 Day
  • Cost:£510 + VAT
  • Ref:SAGE
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Cost £510.00 Duration 2 days Code SAGE

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Who is it for

Those members of staff who are responsible for the day-to-day running of an existing Sage Line 50 accounts system or those planning to implement one. Also suitable for those wishing to extract management information from their Sage Line 50 accounts system.

What is it about

A comprehensive two day accounts training course in the essential functions of this financial management tool. This is hands-on accounts training, based in one of our IT suites, allowing you to practice every day accounts tasks and procedures as you are taken through the SAGE Line 50 system functionality step by step.

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
  • 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 2

  • 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
  • Year End Procedures:
    • Reconfiguration
    • Zeroing balances
    • Closing off
  • Further Reporting:
    • Sales, Purchase, Nominal and Bank Reports
    • Budget and Prior Year Comparisons
    • Graphs

What will I 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

Accredited by

This course is accredited for CPD

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