Sage Line 50 training courses in Guildford, Surrey

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 who wish to learn how to use a computerised accounts program

Pre-requisites:  Experience of using Windows and some previous manual book-keeping knowledge or experience

Objectives:       To teach accountancy skills using this version of the Sage program.

Course Content:

Lesson 1: Restoring data, entering customers’ opening balances, entering suppliers’ opening balances, backing up data

Lesson 2: Restoring data from a previous lesson, entering opening balances in the nominal ledger, preparing and printing

                a trial balance

Lesson 3: Changing the program date, checking data, making stock adjustments in, entering purchase invoices for products and services,

               entering new supplier record information, entering a batch of supplier invoices

Lesson 4: Creating customer invoices, printing customer invoices, checking the activity on a selected customer account, updating ledgers

Lesson 5: Entering customer receipts, entering other receipts from non-invoiced items

Lesson 6: Processing payments made against supplier invoices, processing other payments, entering petty cash payments, restoring

               the petty cash float

Lesson 7: Correcting mis-postings using the journals window, posting payroll records via journal entries, printing out a trial balance,

               adding new customer accounts using a wizard, adding new products using a wizard and modify

Lesson 8: Reconciling the November bank statement, printing and viewing bank reports and day books

               Producing statements for customers, printing out the audit trail, correcting basic entry errors, customising the program

Lesson 9: Processing purchase invoices, printing customer invoices, adjusting stock records for purchases

               processing credit notes, adjusting stock records for returns

Lesson 10: Processing payments made against supplier invoices, processing other payments, entering petty cash payments, restoring the

                 petty cash float, processing settlement discounts

Lesson 11: Entering several batches of journals, saving skeleton journals, reconciling the December bank statement, checking and

                 reconciling the VAT return, entering a journal for VAT liability, printing out a final trial balance, producing profit & loss and balance

                 sheet for management accounts

Features:

n Structured modular approach to make learning easy

n Learn in our training centre in central Guildford

n Support of tutors when required

n Practical exercises to consolidate knowledge gained

Benefits: 

n Know how to use Sage Line 50 in order to operate a computerised accounts program

n Can lead to the IAB "Level 2 Certificate in Computerised Bookkeeping" or City & Guilds qualification

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

n The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate

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