Sage Training - Payroll, Accounts, Reporting

Accounts Introduction Courses

Accounting courses are geared towards office professionals who want to become proficient in bookkeeping and account management. These also include debits and credits, the nominal Ledger and the Trial Balance.

A good course to start is an Introduction to Bookkeeping which guides you through the basic theory of Sage, recording various business transactions, VAT (value added tax) and producing management reports. After completing the introduction, other courses are available to take your skills to the next level e.g. Sage 50 Accounts.

Sage Instant Accounts

These courses focus specifically on Sage Instant Accounts software. You will learn more in-depth knowledge of the fundamental operations of the software and amending records. Some of the topics covered by a Sage Instant Accounts course might include:

Setting up nominal records

Working with the Chart of Accounts

Creating customer and supplier records

Entering Customer and Supplier Opening Balances

Entering Nominal Opening Balances

Performing Credit Control

Recurring Entries

Bank Reconciliation

Financial Reporting

Vat

Year End

Note that most Accounting courses will run for 2-3 days to cover the full range of accounting topics.

Sage 50 Accounts Training

The Sage 50 Accounts training is a fairly large course usually spanning over several modules. Its aimed at new or semi experienced users looking to move into the Sage accounting environment. Topics covered by the course can include:

Supplier invoices and credit notes

Supplier payments

Supplier print routines and e-payments

Customer invoices and credit notes

Customer receipts and managing the sales ledger

Contra Entries

Bank transactions

Recurring Entries

Checking transactions

Error Corrections

Complex transactions

Bank reconciliation

Credit control

Writing off debts

Depreciation and Fixed Assets

Prepayments and Accruals

Financial Reports

Departmental and budget reports

Microsoft Integration

VAT

Year End

Multi-company and consolidation

Planning a stock system

Producing product reports

Cost of sales and opening balances

Purchase Order Processing

Customer Discounts

Sales Order Processing

Stock Take

Bill of Materials

Sage 50 Payroll Courses

These courses are aimed directly at using the Sage 50 Payroll program. As with other Sage courses this course is usually open to new and existing users of Sage. These courses usually cover the main aspects of Sage 50 Payroll including Pay Elements, Pension Schemes, YTD Figures, Employee Records, Access Rights, Processing Payroll, Pensions, Rollback and Restore, Data Export, New starters and student loans, E-payments and e-submissions and Absence.