Sage 50 Accounts 2013 : in easy steps / Gillian Gilert.

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Sage 50 Accounts is one of the best in market-leading accounts software. It lets you manage your day-to-day finances, customers, suppliers and VAT and keeps your finger on the pulse of your business. It puts you in total control of your finances so you can spend more time running & growing your business.

Sage 50 Accounts 2013 in easy steps clarifies everything from basic record keeping to utilizing Sage as an information-bank for making crucial business decisions. Areas covered include:Setting up records and producing invoices, reconciling your bank statements, stock management, keeping track of debtors, creditors and bills, all important month and year end procedures, generating invaluable management reports.

Sage 50 Accounts 2013 in easy steps is the perfect guide to all your financial needs.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Getting Started (p. 7)
• Introduction (p. 8)
• Starting Sage 50 Accounts (p. 9)
• Sage 50 Desktop Views (p. 10)
• Settings (p. 11)
• Company Preferences (p. 12)
• Currency & the Euro (p. 15)
• Customer & Supplier Defaults (p. 16)
• Finance Rates (p. 18)
• 2 The Customer Ledger (p. 19)
• Keeping a Financial System (p. 20)
• The Customers Toolbar (p. 21)
• Creating Customer Records (p. 22)
• Price Lists (p. 24)
• Batch Customer Invoice (p. 25)
• Batch Customer Credit Note (p. 26)
• Debtors Analysis (p. 27)
• Credit Charges (p. 28)
• Disputed Invoices (p. 29)
• Customer Reports & Modem (p. 30)
• Customer Letters and Labels (p. 31)
• The Customer Statement (p. 32)
• 3 The Supplier Ledger (p. 33)
• The Supplier Toolbar (p. 34)
• Creating Supplier Records (p. 35)
• Using Search (p. 36)
• Supplier Activity (p. 37)
• Supplier Aged Balance (p. 38)
• Recording Supplier Invoices (p. 39)
• Supplier Credit Notes (p. 40)
• Supplier Letters and Labels (p. 41)
• Supplier Reports (p. 42)
• 4 The Nominal Ledger (p. 43)
• The Nominal Toolbar (p. 44)
• The Nominal Ledger (p. 45)
• Nominal Records (p. 46)
• Viewing Nominal Transactions (p. 47)
• The Journal (p. 50)
• Making a Journal Entry (p. 51)
• Setting up Prepayments (p. 52)
• Setting up Accruals (p. 53)
• The Chart of Accounts (p. 54)
• Nominal Reports (p. 56)
• 5 The Bank (p. 57)
• The Bank Toolbar (p. 58)
• Bank Accounts (p. 59)
• Bank, Cash & Credit Accounts (p. 60)
• Recording Bank Payments (p. 61)
• Supplier Invoice Payments (p. 62)
• Batch Purchase Payments (p. 63)
• Bank Receipts (p. 64)
• Recording Customer Receipts (p. 65)
• Bank Transfers (p. 66)
• Recurring Entries (p. 67)
• Generating Cheques (p. 68)
• The Bank Statement (p. 69)
• Bank Account Reconciliation (p. 70)
• Bank Reports (p. 72)
• 6 Products (p. 73)
• The Products Toolbar (p. 74)
• The Product Record (p. 75)
• Product Defaults (p. 78)
• Using Search (p. 79)
• Bill of Materials (p. 80)
• Viewing Transactions (p. 81)
• Product Activity (p. 82)
• Product Adjustments (p. 84)
• Product Transfers (p. 85)
• Product Reports (p. 86)
• 7 Invoices (p. 87)
• The Invoicing Toolbar (p. 88)
• Invoicing (p. 89)
• The Product Invoice (p. 90)
• Printing an Invoice (p. 92)
• The Service Invoice (p. 93)
• The Skeleton Invoice (p. 95)
• Product Credit Note (p. 96)
• Process Recurring Transactions (p. 97)
• Updating your Ledgers (p. 98)
• Printing for Batch Invoicing (p. 99)
• Producing Reports (p. 100)
• 8 Processing Sales Orders (p. 101)
• Sales Order Processing Toolbar (p. 102)
• The Sales Order (p. 103)
• Allocating Stock (p. 105)
• Despatching Sales Orders (p. 106)
• Amending & Printing Sales Orders (p. 107)
• Sales Orders Reports (p. 108)
• 9 Purchase Orders (p. 109)
• The PO Processing Toolbar (p. 110)
• Creating a Purchase Order (p. 111)
• Placing Orders 'on order' (p. 113)
• Recording Deliveries (p. 114)
• Processing Purchases Manually (p. 115)
• Recording Deliveries Manually (p. 116)
• Printing Batched Orders (p. 117)
• Purchase Order Reports (p. 118)
• 10 Financials (p. 119)
• The Financials Toolbar (p. 120)
• The Audit Trail (p. 121)
• The Trial Balance (p. 123)
• Profit & Loss Report (p. 124)
• The Balance Sheet (p. 125)
• Quick Ratio Report (p. 126)
• The Budget Report (p. 127)
• The VAT Return (p. 128)
• VAT e-Submissions (p. 131)
• Financial Reports (p. 132)
• 11 Fixed Assets (p. 133)
• The Fixed Assets Toolbar (p. 134)
• Recording your Fixed Assets (p. 135)
• Fixed Asset Depreciation (p. 137)
• Depreciation and Valuation (p. 138)
• 12 The Report Designer (p. 139)
• The Report Designer (p. 140)
• Creating a New Report (p. 141)
• Modifying an Existing Report (p. 144)
• 13 Opening Balances (p. 145)
• Introduction (p. 146)
• Standard VAT-O/B (p. 147)
• VAT Cash Accounting - O/B (p. 148)
• Clearing Opening Balances (p. 149)
• Entering Balances Mid-Year (p. 151)
• Nominal Ledger & Bank Account (p. 152)
• Product Opening Balances (p. 154)
• 14 Data Management (p. 155)
• Backing Up Data (p. 156)
• Restoring Data (p. 157)
• Changing Global Values (p. 158)
• Importing Data (p. 160)
• File Maintenance (p. 162)
• Write Off, Refund & Return (p. 165)
• Posting Contra Entries (p. 168)
• Run Period End Functions (p. 169)
• Clearing Audit Trail & Stock (p. 172)
• 15 Task Management (p. 173)
• Features of the Diary Module (p. 174)
• The Diary Window (p. 175)
• Setting Up a Diary Task (p. 176)
• Setting Up a Recurring Event (p. 177)
• Completing an Event (p. 178)
• Chasing Debt (p. 179)
• Managing Payments (p. 181)
• Office Integration (p. 182)
• User Defined Labels (p. 185)
• Managing Events (p. 186)
• Index (p. 187)

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