Become a certified
Sage 50 Accounts user with a exam that involves a series of different tasks using Sage 50 Accounts. We will provide you with all the information and help you need to prepare for the test. Once you pass, we will send you a Sage 50 Accounts Certificate, which will add another string to your bow on your CV.
Employee benefits:
- Obtain recognised proof that you are a Sage user
- Develop skills that will help you in the workplace
- Sage Certification is a useful addition to add to your CV
Employer benefits:
- Improve employee’s working standards, practices and quality
- Improve employee satisfaction through superb training practices
- Build a business that is recognised for its well trained workforce
Exam breakdown
Stage 1: Getting started
- Use shortcut keys and navigate around Sage 50 Accounts
- Backup, restore and check your data
- Configure accounts charts
- Create and maintain nominal records and budgets
- Prepare, plan and post opening balances
- Set up customer and supplier details
- Work with bank, cash, credit card payments and receipts
- Post invoices and credit notes
- Record customer receipts and disputed items
- Post payments, match credit notes and payments on account
- Post journals
- Check and correct transactions
Stage 2: Core functionality
- Perform a bank reconciliation
- Apply search criteria, multiple searches and wild cards
- Review the ageing frequency on outstanding invoices, age invoices and produce ageing reports
- Understand types of customer correspondence
- Flag invoices in dispute, write off customer or supplier transactions and adjust VAT accordingly
- Set up and process recurring transactions, prepayments and accruals
- Set up and post depreciation and dispose of an asset
- Deal with VAT returns and run the year end
- Produce profit and loss, balance sheet, budget reports, departmental reports and transfer basic information to Microsoft Excel and Word
- Understand and interpret the results from your management reports
Stage 3: Sage 50 Accounts Plus & Professional
- Plan a stock system
- Create product records
- Set up a product assembly
- Enter opening balances for stock levels
- Perform a stock take and make adjustments
- Perform a stock period end and a year end
- Set up and maintain pricing and discount structures
- Create and process sales and purchase orders
- Create multiple delivery addresses
- Create quotes, pro-formas, invoices and credit notes
- Setup recurring invoices and orders
