Sage 50 Accounts For Dummies® 2nd Edition

Introduction

Sage is a well-known accounting system used in more than three-quarters of a million small- and medium-sized businesses in the UK. The range of business software continually evolves, and Sage’s developers pride themselves on listening to their customers for feedback on how to improve the software. This results in regular revisions and updates that add new features to Sage each time.

This book offers you a chance to understand how Sage 50 Accounts can help you run your business effectively. Thoroughly revised to cover all the latest Sage updates, I hope you get a lot out of this 2nd Edition.

About This Book

The aim of this book is for you to get the most from Sage. I use lots of screenshots to help you navigate your way around the system and offer tips to help you customise the programs and reports contained in Sage in language you can understand, even if you’re not an accountant.

Wherever possible, I show you the quickest way to do something, because you can often do the same thing in more than one way. I understand that you want a quick start, so I show you the easiest methods of doing things. You can always add details later, when time permits.

This book presents information in a modular fashion so that you get all the information to accomplish a task in one place. I don’t ask you to remember things from different parts of the book; if another chapter has information relevant to the discussion at hand, I tell you where to find it, so you don’t have to read the ...