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Sage 50 Accounts For Dummies, 3rd UK Edition
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Sage 50 Accounts For Dummies, 3rd UK Edition

by Jane E. Kelly
June 2015
Beginner
400 pages
8h 47m
English
For Dummies
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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Sage 50 Accounts

Chapter 1: Introducing Sage 50 Accounts

Looking at the Varieties of Sage

Installing the Software

Getting what you need before you get started

Moving to the installation

Setting Up with the Active Set-Up Wizard

Registering Your Software

Finding Out How Easy Sage Is to Use

Burying the accounting jargon

Navigating Around Sage

Exploring the Menu bar

Using Wizards

Chapter 2: Creating Your Chart of Accounts and Assigning Nominal Codes

Understanding as Much as You Need to about Accounting

Dabbling in double-entry bookkeeping

Naming your nominals

Preparing reports

Looking at the Structure of Your COA

Checking out the default COA

Identifying balance sheet codes

Looking at profit and loss codes

Leaving gaps and mirroring codes

Accommodating floating nominals

Editing Your COA

Amending your COA

Creating a new COA

Checking Your COA

Previewing errors

Looking at some common errors

Chapter 3: Setting Up Records

Choosing How to Create Your Records

Getting a quick start using the New icon

Having a change of view

Following the wizards brick by brick

Creating Customer and Supplier Records

Setting customer and supplier defaults

Deleting customer and supplier records

Creating Your Nominal Records

Exploring your nominal records

Renaming existing nominal records

Adding a new nominal record

Looking for a nominal record

Looking around ...

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