Sage Classroom Training
Many of our clients find getting out of the office into a classroom learning environment is the best value way of completing their Sage training. You'll be taught by Sage experts as all our Sage classroom training is accredited by the Institute of IT Training - your assurance of top quality training.
We have training centres around the country where you can take any of our courses. Our Sage Courses run over one or two days and are designed for people of all abilities.
As the biggest Sage Business Partner provider of Sage training in the UK, we have the answers to any questions you may have. You can see the training centre locations here and the full course list below. After you have read the course descriptions please click here to go to see the latest availability or call us on 0845 641 0624 for further advice. You can also get us to contact you by filling out the enquiry form.
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Sage 50 Accounts Classroom Training Courses
These courses are the top courses in the UK, please click the 
to see the descriptions below.
Introduction to Bookkeeping
This one-day course will give you an understanding of the basic principles of double entry bookkeeping.
Choose this course if you are new to accounts and or want to understand the principles of double-entry bookkeeping before using either Sage Instant Accounts or Sage 50 Accounts.
Course Content
- Identify the differences between debits and credits and learn basic double-entry
- Discover the reasons for Nominal Ledger analysis
- Learn how to create a Trial Balance
- Understanding banking using double-entry
- How to record VAT using double-entry bookkeeping
- Understanding debtors and creditors control
- How to operate a Sales Ledger that links to the Nominal Ledger
- How to operate a Purchase Ledger that links to the Nominal Ledger
- Overview of computerised accounts and their benefits
What to do next
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Introduction to Sage 50 Accounts
This one-day course will give you an understanding of the basic principles of Sage 50 Accounts, from navigation through to creating and amending various records.
We'll also cover opening balances as well as controlling user access.
Choose this course if you're a new or existing accounts user who wants to basic understanding of how Sage 50 Accounts works before attending the Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 course.
Course Content
- Introduction to the software 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
- 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
What to do next
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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 1 Training Course
This two-day course will give you an understanding of the day-to-day core operations of Sage 50 Accounts.
Choose this course if you're a new or existing accounts user who wants to know how to use the core features in Sage 50 Accounts.
Processing invoices, credit notes and payments, managing the sales ledger, error correction and protecting your data are some of the key topics covered.
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
- Processing bank recurring entries
- Interrogating accounts data using 'Search' for more accurate reporting
- How to back up and check data
- Correcting input errors
- Posting and correcting Journal Entries
- Customer payments and supplier refunds
What to do next
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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 2 Training Course
Choose this course if you want to know how to use the essential management reporting and periodic routines within Sage 50 Accounts, including integration with Microsoft® Word and Excel.
This two-day course will cover in depth the processes and procedures for Month End, Year End, credit control, VAT return, Microsoft® Excel integrated reporting, depreciation, prepayments and accruals, recurring entries and key performance indicators.
Course Content
- Perform a bank reconciliation by comparing your Sage transactions to the actual bank statement
- Credit Control Reports and 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 using integrated reporting
- Produce, check and submit a VAT Return
- Prepare for, and run, the Year End
- Create multiple company accounts for associated companies or branches
What to do next
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Sage 50 Accounts Stage 3 Training Course
This two-day course covers everything you need to know about stock control.
Choose this course if you're using Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Accounts Professional and want to know how to use the stock control functionality, including sales invoices and credit notes, as well aspects of the foreign trade features.
Course Content
- How to plan and maintain stock records, post opening balances and record 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 match and post invoices to orders
- Understand 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 Accounts Professional
- Performing stock takes and processing stock adjustments, dealing with stock returns and stock month ends
- Use the Bill of Materials function to assemble finished goods from stocked 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
What to do next
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Further Sage 50 Accounts Courses
Sage 50 Accounts Project Costing
This one-day course covers everything you need to know about Sage 50 Accounts Project Costing.
Managing the costs of a project, budgeting, resources, charges, billing and project closure are some of the key topics covered.
Choose this course if you're using Sage 50 Accounts Plus and Sage 50 Accounts Professional (Version 12 and above) and need to know how to organise and manage budgets and track and report on the costs of your projects.
Course Content
- Introduction to Project Costing, understand the Project Life Cycle and configuration
- Cost type and cost code considerations
- Project Records, creating, entering and sub-projects
- Account posting, entering Purchase Invoices and Credits, Bank Payments and stock control
- Recording committed costs
- Concept and use of resources, project charges and credits
- Project reporting, activity and on screen enquiries
- Billing and Project closure
What to do next
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Sage 50 CIS Workshop
This half-day workshop will give you an understanding of the Construction Industry Taxation Scheme (CIS) with an introduction to Sage 50 CIS, configuration, setting up sub-contractor records and submitting online.
Choose this course if you are a contractor using Sage 50 CIS and you want to know how to use the software in order to comply with the Construction Industry Taxation Scheme (CIS).
Please note: This is workshop is held either in the morning or the afternoon; the morning session will start at 9.30am, the afternoon session will start at 1.30pm.
Course Content
- Familiarisation on the operation of the CIS scheme, and what your responsibilities as contractors are
- Registering the CIS module with Sage and configuring Sage 50 Accounts for e-Submissions
- Completing sub-contractor details and verifying their tax status with HMRC
- Processing sub-contractor payments
- Producing sub-contractor statements
- Electronic submission of monthly CIS returns
What to do next
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Sage 50 Accounts Reports Design
This two-day course covers everything you need to know about using the Sage 50 Accounts Report Designer to create new reports
You will also learn how to use the more advanced features to really unlock the full power of the Sage 50 Accounts Report Designer and perform your own specific analysis.
Choose this course if you are using Sage 50 Accounts and want to know how to amend existing and create your own reports.
Course Content
- Creating new reports, using the report wizard, amending fixed reports, selecting variables, sorting information and laying out the page
- Inserting calculations into a report and changing the presentation of information
- Improving presentation by adding sub-totals and grand totals
- Adding filters to a report to select specific information
- Splitting debits and credits and producing meaningful transaction totals
- Adding ranges to a report
- Learn about selection filters, advanced filters and advanced criteria
- Creating overdue account letters and sales promotions using specific criteria and expressions
- Amending an existing invoice layout or creating one from scratch
What to do next
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Sage 50 Accounts upgrade workshop
This one-day course everything you need to know about the new features of Sage 50 Accounts 2009, focusing on managing your VAT and online submissions, taking credit card payments, management reports and dealing with discounts.
Choose this course if you are have upgraded to Sage 50 Accounts 2009 and want to know how to take advantage of its new features. This course is the perfect compliment to any Sage 50 Accounts 2009 upgrade.
Course Content
- Usability - Welcome screens, newsfeeds and auto updates
- Management accounts
- Chart of Accounts
- Cashflow improvements
- Bank reconciliation
- Vat
- Chase debt & manage payments
- Communications defaults and tab
- Customer bank account information
- Priority customer password
- Improved customer/supplier dashboards
- Products, Invoicing and Ordering - Discounts and processing deposits
What to do next
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Sage Instant Accounts Classroom Training Courses
These courses are the top courses in the UK, please click the to see the descriptions below.
Sage Instant Accounts Stage 1 Training Course
This one-day course will give you an understanding of the basic principles of Sage Instant Accounts, from navigation through to creating and amending various records.
Choose this course if you're a new or existing accounts user who wants to get started with Sage Instant Accounts and understand what it can do for you.
Course Content
- Introduction to the software and navigating the menus
- How to set up Sage Instant Accounts for optimum performance for your type of business
- Understanding the implications of standard VAT and VAT cash accounting
- The integrated Sales, Purchase and Nominal Ledger systems
- Creating and amending nominal accounts
- Creating bank, cash and credit card accounts
- Customising the Chart of Accounts for the Profit and Loss and Balance
- Sheet reports
- Creating and amending customer and supplier accounts
- Entering opening balances for nominal, customer and supplier accounts
- Setting up password protection and/or restricting user access
What to do next
Click here to see all available courses and their dates, across the UK.
Sage Instant Accounts Stage 2 Training Course
This one-day course will give you an understanding of the day-to-day core operations of Sage Instant Accounts.
Choose this course if you're a new or existing accounts user who wants to understand the core functionality of Sage Instant Accounts.
Journal entries and bank transactions, sales and purchase ledger, invoicing and product management are some of the topics covered.
Course Content
- Recording journal entries in the Nominal Ledger
- Recording cash and bank payments and receipts, processing credit card transactions and bank transfers
- Recording invoices, credit notes and payments in the Supplier Ledger
- How to make e-payments using the e-banking facility
- Recording invoices, credit notes and payments in the Customer Ledger
- How to check and maintain data using backups
- Identifying and correcting errors
- Planning and maintaining stock records and entering opening balances
- Producing product invoices and managing stock control
- How to interrogate data using searches to enable more accurate reporting
What to do next
Click here to see all available courses and their dates, across the UK.
Sage Instant Accounts Stage 3 Training Course
The one-day course takes an in-depth look at the processes and procedures for Month End, Year End, credit control, VAT return, Microsoft® Office integration, bank reconciliation, recurring entries and Dashboards (Instant Accounts Plus).
Choose this course if you want to understand the essential management reporting and periodic routines within Sage Instant Accounts as well as how to transfer data for use with Microsoft® Word and Excel.
Course Content
- Producing credit control information on screen and in printed reports
- Set up and monitor credit limits and produce statements and overdue letters
- Set up and process regular payments and receipts, such as direct debits and standing orders, through recurring entries
- Perform a bank reconciliation by comparing your bank account to your actual bank statement
- Understand and create the Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports
- Perform the VAT return routine and reconcile to the VAT account
- Prepare and run the Year End, clear the audit trail and prepare for the new financial year
- Create graphs and integrate Sage Instant Accounts with Microsoft® Office
- Using the Sage Instant Accounts Plus Dashboards
What to do next
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Certification
Once you have completed your Sage Training course you can gain official recognition of your Sage 50 Accounts and Sage Instant Accounts skills with Sage Certification.
Sage Certification is based on the Sage software you have been trained on, and consists of an online exam for each level of certification, delivered over the Internet, straight to your PC.
Each examination consists of program simulations, "drag and drop" exercises and multiple-choice questions. For added convenience, you can choose to sit the exams whenever you feel ready to take them. A Sage Certified Pass is valid for two years. Click here to ask us about Sage certification or call 0845 641 0624.
