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Sage Instant Accounts
1 or 2 day course depending on experience
 
Overview
This course is designed for anyone new to Sage Instant Accounts as well as people who are using a small area of the software and need to expand their understanding. During the course the learner will practice their skills with skill reviews and exercises. A certificate of completion is issued at the end of the course.
 
Course Outline

Before You Start
Microsoft® Windows versions

Different Sage Instant Accounts versions

Avoiding the loss of data from a ‘live’ version of Sage Instant Accounts

Working with Sage Instant Accounts as a single user

Working with Sage Instant Accounts in a shared environment with multiple users

Working through the chapters

Course aims

Program Basics

Starting Sage Instant Accounts

The ActiveSetup Wizard

Entering a password

The Tip of the Day dialog box

The main program window

Modules, windows and views

Multiple windows

Views

Toolbar buttons, tasks and links

Getting help

Exiting Sage Instant Accounts

Summary ~ Program Basics

Getting Started

Restoring data for the first time

Setting the financial year

Backing up for the first time

Summary ~ Getting Started

Account Names & Numbers

Debit and credit

Double entry book-keeping

Viewing and printing the accounts list

Printing the current list

Viewing and printing the Nominal List report

Previewing the accounts list

Printing the accounts list

Account ranges

Transactions and double entry

Changing account names

Control accounts

Summary ~ Account Names & Numbers

Bank Receipts

Entering a bank receipt

Saving a transaction

Summary ~ Bank Receipts

Bank Payments

Bank payments

Using the Bank Payments window

Summary ~ Bank Payments

Financials

The financial state of the company

The Trial Balance report

The Profit and Loss report

The Balance Sheet

Summary ~ Financials

Customers

Customer details

Entering a new customer

The Customer Record Wizard

Account references

Additional information

Adding more customers

About selecting customers

Editing customer details

Setting the Terms agreed option

Changing the address details

Customer address lists

Summary ~ Customers

Suppliers

Supplier details

Editing the supplier record

Summary ~ Suppliers

Service Invoices

The Invoice window

Service invoices

Entering order information

Footer and payment details

Save or print?

Printing invoices

Updating ledgers

Viewing customer and invoice information

The Customers list

The Invoicing window

Re-printing the invoice
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ummary ~ Service Invoices
Products

Product records

Adding new products

Adding further stock items

The Product Record window

Summary ~ Products

Product Invoices

Product invoices

Sales details

Giving discounts

Order details

Footer and payment details

Saving the invoice

Adding further invoices

Mix and match invoicing

Printing the invoices

Check the invoices

Changing an invoice

Adding carriage charges

Updating the ledgers

Summary ~ Product Invoices

Product Credit Notes

Product credit notes

Print and update the ledgers

Summary ~ Product Credit Notes

Quotations

About quotations and converting quotations

Creating a product quotation

Adding the customer quotation reference

Adding the carriage charge

Entering an expiry date for the quotation

Saving and closing the quotation

Creating a service quote

Adding the customer quotation reference

Printing quotations

The Invoicing window

Winning and losing quotations

Convert/Set as Won

Lost/Set as Lost

Set as Open

Winning a quotation

Losing a quote

Retrieving a lost quotation and winning it

Marking the quotation as open and revising it

Winning the order and converting the quotation

Summary ~ Quotations

Reviewing your Accounts

The financial state of your company

The Profit & Loss report

The Balance Sheet report

Sending Statements

Account balances

Aged debtors analysis

The Aged Debtors Analysis report

Statements

Summary ~ Sending Statements

Customer Receipts

Automatic allocation of receipts

Manual allocation of receipts

Partial allocation of receipts

Giving a discount

Payments on account

Summary ~ Customer Receipts

Customer Activity

Customer activity

Summary ~ Customer Activity

Purchase Invoices

Supplier details

Batch invoices

Supplier account balances

Summary ~ Purchase Invoices

Supplier Payments

Payments to suppliers

Printing a remittance advice note

Another payment

Supplier activity

Summary ~ Supplier Payments

More about the Nominal Ledger

Journal entries

A second example

Nominal Code activity

Nominal records

Summary ~ More about the Nominal Ledger

More about Bank Accounts

Bank transfers

Combined payments

Petty cash transactions

Summary ~ More about Bank Accounts

Bank Reconciliation

Bank reconciliation

Grouping bank transactions

Reconciling your bank account

Add an adjustment

Summary ~ Bank Reconciliation

Credit Control & Bad Debts

Credit control basics

The Customers window

Using the Search option

And or Or conditions

Finishing the Expression Wizard

Saving the search definition

Opening the search file

Clearing a search

Sending statements

Accounts letters

Writing off bad debts

Raising a batch credit to write off an invoice

Summary ~ Credit Control & Bad Debts

VAT Returns

Notes on VAT returns

Producing a VAT return

Viewing the underlying transactions

Printing the VAT return

Reconciling the VAT transactions

Updating the VAT account references

Using the VAT Liability Transfer Wizard

Paying the VAT

Summary ~ VAT Returns

Recurring Entries

What are recurring entries?

Adding new recurring entries

Adding a second payment

Adding a receipt

Adding journal credits and debits

Setting up a bank transfer recurring entry

Editing an entry

A recurring entry processed weekly

Processing recurring entries

Processing

Suspending postings

Deleting recurring entries

Summary ~ Recurring Entries

Fixed Assets & Depreciation

What are fixed assets?

Depreciation methods

Straight line depreciation

Reducing balance depreciation

Entering the purchase details for a new fixed asset

Entering the original purchase invoice

Entering the opening balance for an existing fixed asset

Depreciating assets

Viewing the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reports

Summary ~ Fixed Assets & Depreciation

Closing Stock Journals

Calculating the cost of sales

Entering the closing stock values for month 1

Entering stock values for month 2

Checking the Profit & Loss report

Summary ~ Closing Stock Journals

Prepayments & Accruals

What are prepayments and accruals?

Prepayments

Accruals

Setting up prepayments

Entering the original invoice

Entering a prepayment journal to reverse all the expenditure

Processing the month end prepayment

Setting up accruals

Entering an accrual journal

What happens next with the accrual account?

Check the nominal ledger balances

Summary ~ Prepayments & Accruals

Late Payment Legislation

What is the late payment legislation?

Setting up your system for late payment charges

Setting up the Credit Charges control account

Setting up the interest rate

Setting the customer record for credit charges

Adding an invoice

Charging customers for late payment

Using the Credit Charges Wizard

Summary ~ Late Payment Legislation

The Sage Task Manager

Opening the Sage Task Manager

Entering tasks

Marking tasks as complete

Deleting tasks

Closing the Sage Task Manager

Summary ~ The Sage Task Manager

Paying Bills using the Task Manager

Entering bills into the Sage Task Manager

Paying bills using the Sage Task Manager

Summary ~ Paying Bills using the Sage Task Manager

Changing Posted Records

Adding an incorrect payment

Checking the audit trail

File maintenance

Corrections

Editing the record

Checking the petty cash account

Account activity

Summary ~ Changing Posted Records

Reports & Information

Information

The Audit Trail

The Period Trial Balance report

The Profit & Loss report

The Balance Sheet report

Reports

Other useful reports

 




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