Get Started in Sage Line 50: Teach Yourself

by Mac Bride (Author)

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  2010

  $3.35

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  Do you want to have a clear understanding of accounting principles and know how to prepare accounts using Sage?
  Get Started in Sage Line 50 introduces the principles behind the system - because if you understand how a system works, you will master it more quickly and be better equipped to sort out any problems later- and demonstrates how to use the various modules and facilities, for day-to-day accounting, for end-of-period summaries and reports and for trouble-shooting and analysis at any time. By the end of the book, you will have a clear understanding of acccounting principles and know how to prepare accounts using Sage. With its practical approach and clear illustrations, Get Started in Sage Line 50 is an essential resource for any user.

  
  

  Get Started in Sage Line 50 includes:
  
  Chapter 1: The principles of accounts
  The common basis
  Accounts and information
  Double-entry bookkeeping
  Customers and suppliers
  The nominal ledger
  Analysis and outputs

  Chapter 2: The Sage 50 system
  Getting started
  The screen display
  Viewing records and transactions
  Entering data
  Selections
  Wizards
  Smart links
  The diary
  Report designer
  File maintenance
  Backups

  Chapter 3: Setting up the accounts
  Company data
  Details and defaults
  Multiple users and access rights
  Customers and suppliers
  Bank accounts
  Products
  Invoice and order defaults
  Program date
  Change password

  Chapter 4: The Company module
  Company tasks and tools
  Nominal records
  Chart of Accounts
  Editing the Nominal accounts
  Double-entry bookkeeping
  Journal entries
  Activity
  Reports

  Chapter 5: Customers and suppliers
  New records
  Viewing and editing records
  Searching
  Customer reports
  Statements and labels

  Chapter 6: Invoices
  Invoicing in Sage 50
  Credit notes
  Printing invoices
  Updating ledgers
  Batch invoices
  Order processing
  Chapter 7: Credit control
  Managing customer credit
  Day Sales Analysis
  Communications
  Cash flow
  Aged analysis
  Write offs
  Managing supplier credit

  Chapter 8: The Bank tasks
  The Bank module
  Reconciliation
  Payments and receipts
  Receive Payment
  Supplier payments
  Batch payments
  Recurring entries
  Cheque printing
  Transfers
  Statements
  Reports

  Chapter 9: Financial control
  Financials
  The Audit Trail
  The Trial Balance
  The Profit and Loss account
  The Balance Sheet
  Verification
  VAT
  Managing the month end
  The Year End routine

  Chapter 10: Products
  The Products module
  New products
  Viewing and editing product data
  Price lists
  Stock levels

  Chapter 11: Help and support
  Help
  Contents
  The Help Index
  Searching for Help
  The navigation panel
  Sage on the Web
  Ask Sage
  Shortcut Keys

  
  

  Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features:
  
  Not got much time?
  One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

  Author insights
  Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

  Test yourself
  Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.

  Extend your knowledge
  Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the subject.

  Five things to remember
  Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

  Try this
  Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.