Sage 50 Accounts Classroom Training Courses
Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts
This course explains everything you need to know about setting up your Sage Line 50 program. Creating accounts, entering opening balances and data security are some of the key topics covered.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for both new and existing users of Sage Line 50 who require an in depth knowledge of the fundamental operations of setting up the software and amending records.
Course Content
- Introduction to the user interface and how to navigate the menus
- Setting up password protection and/or restricting user access
- Basic configuration, financial year settings and setting up tax codes
- Creating, amending and deleting nominal accounts
- Creating bank, cash and credit card accounts
- Customising the chart of accounts for the Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports
- Entering budget information and creating departments
- Creating, amending and deleting customer and supplier accounts
- Entering opening balances for nominal, customer and supplier accounts
Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 – Two Days
This course explains everything you need to know about the basic operation of your Sage Line 50 program. Processing transactions, error correction and bank reconciliation are some of the key topics covered.
Who should attend
This course is suitable for both new and existing users of Sage Line 50 who require an in depth knowledge of the core functionality of the software.
Course Content
- Entering batch supplier invoices and credit notes
- Posting supplier payments including printing remittance advices, cheques and using e-banking
- Creating and printing service invoices and credit notes for customers
- Posting customer receipts and managing the sales ledger including disputing invoices.
- Dealing with contra entries
- Data entry routines including bank and cash transactions
- Set up and process bank recurring entries
- Interrogating accounts data using ‘Search’ for more accurate reporting
- How to backup and check data
- Correcting input errors
- Dealing with journal entries including posting and correcting errors
For more information,
or for availability dates,
call our office on 0161 408 0551
or fill in our online contact form.
Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2 – Two Days
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for existing users of Sage Line 50 who require an in depth knowledge of the Month End , Year End, credit control and VAT return facilities within Sage Line 50.
Course Content
- Perform a bank reconciliation by comparing your bank account on Sage to the actual bank statement
- Running customer aged reports
- Preventing late payments by formalising credit terms and sending statements
- Dealing with late payments through letters, placing accounts on hold and late payment charges
- Dealing with bad debts by writing off and reclaiming VAT.
- Setting up the fixed asset register to deal with depreciation and disposal of fixed assets
- Understanding the role of prepayments and accruals
- Understanding the Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Budget reports
- Use departments to analyse different areas of the business
- Integrate with Microsoft to produce mail merges and easily transfer information to Microsoft Excel
- Perform a VAT return routine to reconcile to the VAT account
- Create multiple company accounts for associated companies or branches
For more information,
or for availability dates,
call our office on 0161 408 0551
or fill in our online contact form.
Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 – Two Days
This course explains everything you need to know about stock control. Managing a stock control system and processing sales and purchase orders are some of the key topics covered.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for existing users of Sage Line 50 who require an in depth knowledge of stock control routines and the processing of sales and purchase orders.
Course Content
- How to plan and maintain stock records, post opening balances and record deliveries, part deliveries and adjustments
- Setting up multiple delivery addresses for your company, your customers and suppliers
- Look at the purchase order cycle, how to process from entry to delivery and links to other areas of Sage 50
- Understanding product pricing and discount structures
- Look at the sales order cycle, how to process from entry to despatch and links to other areas of Sage 50
- Performing stock takes and processing stock adjustments, dealing with stock returns and stock month ends
- Creating stock items that can become part of an assembly and how Sage 50 can manufacture stock items based on components
- Producing product invoices and credit notes
- Producing quotes and proformas
- Producing multiple invoices using recurring transactions, skeletons and duplicates
- Running a stock year end and making global changes
- Setting up foreign trader, producing foreign currency orders and receipts and creating foreign currency price lists
For more information,
or for availability dates,
call our office on 0161 408 0551
or fill in our online contact form.



