Sage 50 Accounts 2011 (previously known as Sage Line 50) is one of the most popular accounting packages in the UK.  Following successful completion, our course can lead to a new career in finance and bookkeeping.  Unlike many college or distance learning courses our course can lead to an accredited Level 2 qualification.

After completing their course our students typically go on to work for local accountancy firms, small businesses or as self employed bookkeepers.  Salaries for qualified bookkeepers are typically in the range of £20,000 to £25,000 per year.

Designed for:  Those with a good working knowledge of manual book-keeping who wish to learn how to use a computerised book-keeping program

Prerequisites:   Working knowledge of manual book-keeping or previous study of at least Book-keeping Level 2 Module 1, preferably Modules 2 and 3 as well.

Objectives:       To teach Sage 50 Accounts 2011 to Level 2.

Course Content

·         Lesson One – Including: overview of the Sage program, changing the financial year, changing the program date, customers and suppliers opening balances, entering new customers and suppliers, data protection and security, backing up accounts data

·         Lesson Two – Including: restoring data from a previous lesson, entering opening balances in the nominal ledger, preparing and printing a trial balance, setting up opening assets, liabilities and capital balances, entering budgets, producing routine reports

·         Lesson Three – Including: changing the program date, checking data, the products window, making stock adjustments in, entering supplier invoices for products and services, posting error corrections, amending existing customer and supplier records

·         Lesson Four – Including: creating customer invoices, previewing and printing customer invoices, checking the activity on a selected customer account, updating ledgers, generating customer letters, entering details of a new product, checking communication history

·         Lesson Five – Including: entering customer and bank receipts, part payment, producing statements for customers, the customer and supplier dashboards, the diary

·         Lesson Six – Including: processing payments made against supplier invoices, processing bank payments for non-invoiced items, entering petty cash payments and restoring the petty cash float, doing a bank transfer, using a journal to correct errors, using a journal to update the accounts with payroll details, the structure of nominal accounts, adding a new nominal account, printing a trial balance

·         Lesson Seven – Including: reconciling the November bank statement, printing and viewing bank reports and day books, using criteria to view specific reports, printing out the audit trail, correcting basic entry errors, reconciling the debtors and creditors control accounts

·         Lesson Eight – Including: deleting obsolete customer and supplier records, setting up a customer to receive settlement discount, using memorise and recall in the batch supplier invoice window, creating sales credit notes, processing purchase credit notes, adjusting stock records for returns

·         Lesson Nine – Including: posting a payment on account, allocating a payment on account, processing a receipt that includes settlement discount, using memorise and recall in the bank window, setting up a recurring entry, deleting a recurring entry, processing petty cash for December, entering several journals, reconcile the December bank statement

·         Lesson Ten – Including: Adding a new user to Sage, setting up a bill of materials, creating a new product record, performing a stock take and making adjustments, producing product price lists and discount structures, creating delivery addresses

·      Lesson Eleven – Including: Deleting a price list, creating and amending sales orders, allocating/unallocating stock, placing orders on hold, deleting orders, updating stock and recording despatch details

·      Lesson Twelve – Including; Creating and amending purchase orders, processing sales orders, allocating/unallocating stokc, marking orders as delivered, cancelling orders, updating purchase order details, updating stock levels

·         Lesson Thirteen – Including: checking and reconciling the VAT return, the VAT transfer wizard, printing out a trial balance, producing profit & loss and balance sheet for management accounts, checking budget figures versus actuals, carrying out the year end procedure

Benefits

• Know how to use the Sage 50 Accounts 2011 program

• Study at times to suit you in our training centre with 'hands on' support when you need it

• A personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course

• The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training certificate

• The opportunity to gain the IAB Level 2 Award in Computerised Book-keeping qualification or the OCR Level 2 Award in Book-keeping & Accounting Skills (Computerised)

Pitman Training Guildford, Portsmouth House, 1 Portsmouth Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 4BL