Key Decisions Prior to Setup
Learn about key decisions, basic configuration, account coding structures and
layout of accounts. Amend Profit/Loss and Balance Sheet design, Financial Year settings, Currencies, Tax Codes, Departments and Company Preferences.

Creating and Amending Accounts
Learn how to set up the Chart of Accounts, create customer and supplier records, how to tailor nominal ledger records and account names, and how to alter the layouts of the Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports. This session also looks at Accounts Analyser, new with Sage Line 50 version 10.

Document Management
New with version 11, see how you can attach documents to the memo tab of
Customers, Suppliers and Products.

Opening Balances
Understand the choice of methods and implications for Standard VAT and VAT Cash Accounting, and how to make checks against your previous system.

Credit Control
Discover the credit control features that are built into Sage Line 50
Accounts, how to “check” credit worthiness through a web link to Dun & Bradstreet, and set and monitor credit limits within the program. Also learn how to produce statements and letters.

Interest on Late Payments
Look at how to calculate interest on late paying customers.

Bad Debts, Write Offs and Contras*
n this session learn how Sage Line 50 deals with bad debts and how you are able to write them off.

Recurring Entries
Learn how to automate regular postings and recurring entries, such as monthly direct debits and standing orders.

Fixed Assets and Depreciation*
Learn how to use the assets register and choose from the different methods of posting depreciating assets.

New improved Bank Reconciliation and e-Reconciliation
Discover how easy it is to reconcile your bank account within Sage Line 50 against your bank statement. Then, for Internet users, we move on to look at how to download your electronic bank statement into Sage Line 50, and how to perform the e-reconciliation process.

Cash Flow Planner
New to Version 10, this session looks at how to utilise this handy tool to best advantage, ensuring you are always in the best position and know how to avoid a negative cash flow situation.

Management Reports and Key Performance Indicators
Look at how to perform some of the standard period end features within Sage Line 50, including Sales and Purchase Ledger reports, Profit / Loss, Balance Sheet, Budgets, Departmental Profit / Loss, the Audit Trail and other key performance indicators such as the Quick Ratio.

Month End Routine
Within the previous session as part of the reporting sequence, discover how your month end routine will be processed by Sage Line 50.

Using Multiple Charts of Accounts
Learn how to set up multiple charts of accounts so that you can select different levels of details in your Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reports.

Year End
In this session we show you how to run the last important period end routine – that of the Year End. In this session you will learn how to clear the Audit Trail, run your Year End process, and how to prepare for your forthcoming new financial year.

Multi Company, My Business Setup and Consolidation
For multi company users of Sage Line 50, learn how to create and open new company files.

Excel Integration
This feature allows you to automatically import data into Sage Line 50.

Event Logging
Track which user made changes to your data.

Accountants Link
A new wizard has been added allowing you to send sata to an accountant and whilst your accountant is making amendments, you can keep on posting data.
The accountants' changes are then synchronized into your data at a later point.

Bill of Materials
Discover a facility to create stock items which will become part of an assembly, and how Sage Line 50 can manufacture stock items based on component items.

Stock Reporting
Learn how to run reports including profit and re-order analysis.

Purchase Order Processing
Look at the purchase order cycle and its links to other areas of the Sage Line 50 system. Learn how to process from entry to delivery. New with version 11, Sage now tracks drill down to orders.

Stock Takes and Returns
See how to process stock takes and returns within Sage Line 50.

Pricing Structures
See how to produce pricing and discount structures, including Customer and Supplier Price Lists and Foreign Currency Price Lists.

Sales Order Processing
Look at the sales order cycle and its links to other areas of Sage Line 50. Learn how to process sales from entry to despatch, and how to print order documents.

Invoice Production
Investigate the invoicing cycle and its variations. Discover how to produce stock and service invoices, the choices for processing, how to send to a foreign customer and how to use skeleton invoices. Learn how to calculate VAT and the implications of discounts. Also see how to post to ledgers with essential safeguards.

Quotes, Proformas and Batch Conversion
Learn how to process quotes and proformas, and new to Version 10, look at Batch Conversion – allowing multiple quotes and proformas to be converted into orders and invoices. See also how to view quotes on screen, allowing instant follow-up information.

Pay Elements
Discover how to set up the elements of a payroll - including setting up payments, deductions, net payments and looking at pay element reports.

Access Rights
Learn how to control operators’ access to different parts of the program through password protection.

Employee Wizard
Look at how to set up both a normal employee and a director in the program by using the Employee Wizard. Learn how to produce employee record reports.

Employee Pay Elements and Global Changes
Learn how to edit / customise employee records so the program defaults to correct rates for each employee. Also edit as many employee records at the same time in one simple step using Global Changes.

Entering Year-to-Dates
Learn how to set up part way through the year by entering Year To Date figures for each employee by transferring the figures from the Inland Revenue P11 form.

Working Tax Credits
n this session learn how to process Working Tax Credits.

Attachment of Earnings
In this next session we look at Attachments of Earnings and how to apply these to the payroll run.

Loans
Learn how to set up loans in employee records.

Pensions
Discover the different pension schemes available ands how to set these up for employees and process them as part of the payroll run.

Starters and Leavers
Discover how to record new staff with or without P45 details, and how to remove staff and create P45 details.

Advance Pay
Learn how to process holiday pay in advance to employees before they go on holiday.

SSP, SMP, SAP and SPP
In this session learn how to process Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity Pay, and now in line with the latest Government legislation, learn how to process Statutory Adoption Pay and Statutory Paternity Pay.

Common Errors
Discover the most common errors that are made when using the Payroll program and how to correct them.

Rollback and Restore
Look at two functions that enable you to go back to earlier processed periods and make any changes to employee payments or simply to
re-print reports

Processing the Month End
In this session we show you how to process your Month End procedures and begin a new payroll month, with an automatic calculation of contribution that is due to the Inland Revenue.

Processing the Year End
Learn how to run that all-important Payroll Year End, ensuring you complete your payroll year successfully, and transfer over to the new year with ease.

Linking to Sage Accounting Software
In this session we show you how the Payroll program links to other Sage Accounting software programs.