Table of Contents
1 Getting Started 7
Introduction 8
Starting Sage 50 Accounts 9
Sage 50 Desktop Views 10
Settings 11
Company Preferences 12
Currency & the Euro 15
Customer & Supplier Defaults 16
Finance Rates 18
2 The Customer Ledger 19
Keeping a Financial System 20
The Customers Toolbar 21
Creating Customer Records 22
Price Lists 24
Batch Customer Invoice 25
Batch Customer Credit Note 26
Debtors Analysis 27
Credit Control 28
Disputed Invoices 29
Customer Reports & Modem 30
Customer Letters 31
The Customer Statement 32
3 The Supplier Ledger 33
The suppliers Toolbar 34
Creating Supplier Records 35
Using Filter 36
Supplier Activity 37
Supplier Aged Balance 38
Recording Supplier Invoices 39
Supplier Credit Notes 40
Supplier Letters & Labels 41
Supplier Reports 42
4 The Nominal Ledger 43
The Nominal Codes Toolbar 44
The Nominal Ledger 45
Nominal Records 46
Viewing Nominal Transactions 47
The Journal 50
Making a Journal Entry 51
Setting up Prepayments 52
Setting up Accruals 53
The Chart of Accounts 54
Nominal Reports 56
5 The Bank 57
The Bank Accounts Toolbar 58
Bank Accounts 59
Bank, Cash & Credit Accounts 60
Recording Bank Payments 61
Supplier Invoice Payments 62
Batch Purchase Payments 63
Bank Receipts 64
Recording Customer Receipts 65
Bank Transfers 66
Recurring Entries 67
Generating Cheques 68
The Bank Statement 69
Bank Account Reconciliation 70
Bank Reports 72
6 Products 73
The Products and Services Toolbar 74
The Product Record 75
Product Defaults 78
Using Filter 79
Bill of Materials 80
Viewing Transactions 81
Product Activity 82
Product Adjustments 84
Product Transfers 85
Product Reports 86
7 Invoices 87
The Invoices and Credits Toolbar 88
Invoicing 89
The Product Invoice 90
Printing an Invoice 92
The Service Invoice 93
The Skeleton Invoice 95
Product Credit Note 96
Recurring Transactions 97
Updating your Ledgers 98
Printing for Batch Invoicing 99
Producing Reports 100
8 Processing Sales Orders 101
Sales Orders Toolbar 102
The Sales Order 103
Allocating Stock 105
Despatching Sales Orders 106
Amending & Printing Sales Orders 107
Sales Orders Reports 108
9 Purchase Orders 109
The Purchase Orders Toolbar 110
Creating a Purchase Order 111
Placing Orders "On Order" 113
Recording Deliveries 114
Processing Purchases Manually 115
Recording Deliveries Manually 116
Printing Batched Orders 117
Purchase Order Reports 118
10 Financial Reporting 119
Financial Reporting Toolbars 120
The Audit Trail 121
The Trial Balance 123
Profit and Loss Report 124
The Balance Sheet 125
Quick Ratio Report 126
The Budget Report 127
The VAT Return 128
VAT e-Submissions 131
Financial Reports 132
11 Fixed Assets 133
The Fixed Assets Toolbar 134
Recording your Fixed Assets 135
Fixed Asset Depreciation 137
Depreciation & Valuation 138
12 The Report Designer 139
The Report Designer 140
Creating a New Report 141
Modifying an Existing Report 144
13 Opening Balances 145
Introduction 146
Standard VAT-Opening Balances 147
VAT Cash Accounting - Opening Balances 148
Clearing Opening Balances 149
Entering Balances Mid-Year 151
Nominal Ledger & Bank Account 152
Product Opening Balances 154
14 Data Management 155
Backing Up Data 156
Restoring Data 158
Changing Global Values 159
Importing Data 161
File Maintenance 162
Write Off, Refund & Return 165
Posting Contra Entries 168
Run Period End Functions 169
Clearing Audit Trail & Stock 172
15 Task Management 173
Features of the Diary Module 174
The Diary Window 175
Setting Up a Diary Task 176
Setting Up a Recurring Event 177
Completing an Event 178
Chasing Debt 179
Managing Payments 181
Office Integration 182
Sage Drive Setup 185
Creating a Sage ID 186
Index 187
