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EXCEL TRAINING

2009-07-07T02:37:28+00:00

Hello,

I know that having Sage and Excel is a MUST to have on yor cv.

I will be starting my Sage 50 Accounts Training (worth £900) for FREE (as part of a package i paid for) at LSBF next week. No problems there.

My Excel skills are not very good though, so i am looking to get certified in Excel 2003 from beginner to advanced.

Can anyone recommend me a training course/ manual they used in getting certifed?

Once i do get certified, I am looking to do a course in Intermediate Financial Modelling at LSBF?
It lasts 30 hours and costs £900. (£30 per hour very pricey. Not convinced it is a good return on investment)

Once i do get certifed in Microsoft Excel 2003, do you think it is necessary to do a Financial Modelling course? This is for an entry level job.

I look forward to your replies.

Regards,

A free salary calculator tool for your website

2012-01-02T16:26:29+00:00

Hey folks,

I’ve been lurking the forums for a few months now and found some of the threads on here pretty useful, so I thought it’s about time I joined up and gave something back!

We’ve been using this little salary calculator
on our firm’s website recently: http://www.salarycalc.co.uk/salary-calculator-widget/

We looked into having something similar built by our web guys, but we couldn’t really justify the costs - so we opted for this freebie instead.

Hope someone finds this useful!

Programming Languages for Accountants

2011-10-12T00:58:48+00:00

Hello,

What would you consider to be the most essential/ in demand programming languages a future accountant should know? Your answers are much appreciated.

Thanks!

Query in relation to accounting right to use

2011-08-12T07:07:28+00:00

I had one query in relation to Lease accounting.

In fact i had two scenario’s:

1. Assets owned by XYZ limited and used by ABC Limited and depending on revenue generated by ABC Limited. (25% of such revenue should be paid to XYZ limited.)

2. In second scenario, Assets owned by ABC Limited sold to XYZ Limited with user rights limited to ABC Limited.(30% of revenue generated should be paid to XYZ Limited.)

I need to IFRS accounting principles to these transactions and i think of two ways of accountingin the books of ABC limited.

A. Book entire amount of revenue in Income and amount shared with XYZ Limited as Rental expense.

B. Book only net amount as Income

Could you please guide me in these regard as to accounting to be followed under IFRS principles based on the facts mentioned my mail.

Sage.How to delete a company?

2011-06-30T13:59:07+00:00

Hi! I am studying Sage at the moment. Is there is a way to delete customers, suppliers accounts? I messed up couple of transaxtions and now i am completely lost. I think the easiest way would be to delete everything and to start from the begining but the programm does not allow me saying that there are some balances and transactions associated with it…
If i make a mistake by recording a credit note as an invoice how can i correct it?

Many thanks

Back-Order and Pre-Order Payments

2011-06-25T10:22:53+00:00

Hi,

I am looking for the best way to account for back orders and pre-orders in Sage so that I can keep track of what hasn’t been sent out to customers yet.

So for example the customer orders two products online, pays for both upfront but only one ships. The other order is on back order and will ship when it comes in. Until it does do I put the cash to back with the corresponding amount in liabilities and then do the usual double entry when this gets sent out?

The same with pre-orders they are paid when ordered but not sure what is the best way to account for these in Sage?

Any help is appreciated.

How to handle sales prepayments in Sage (Beginner Question)

2011-05-25T08:43:51+00:00

Hi, I am sorry if this is a basic question but I would be most grateful for some advice on how you would handle the following scenario in Sage Instant or Sage Line 50 accounts…

A service company accepts payments in advance for their services which then needs to be accounted for over the next 12 months. So in January I send an invoice for £1200 to Customer A. Customer A then pays the invoice in full. I need to record this payment in sage but then need to account for the payment as £100 per month over the next 12 months.

Many thanks for your assistance.

Any Good Complete Accounting Software

2005-11-24T06:30:09+00:00

can you plz tell me about any Complete Accounting Software.
I want to check it for *free.
Thank You.

Busy Accounting Software - The Complete accounting software

2011-05-13T02:57:00+00:00

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The salient features of BUSY are:

Financial Accounting (Multi-Currency)
Multi-location Inventory Management
Production / Bill of Material
Sales / Purchase Order Processing
Fully User-configurable Invoicing
User-configurable Documents / Letters
Sales Tax Reports / Registers
VAT Returns / Registers (State-wise)
Mfg. / Trading Excise Registers
Service Tax / TDS / FBT
Direct E-Mail / SMS Facility
MIS Reports & Analysis

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Sage line 500

2011-04-18T19:10:35+00:00

I’m new to this forum and am hoping someone can help.
I’m covering someone’s sick leave in purchase ledger, and when the Chaps or Bac’s payments are posted they sometimes miss printing the remittances - can someone explain how I can do this please - the payments has not yet been posted but the file has be moved from modify if this makes sense
thanks anyone who can help - or tell me where i can find info to help myself on sage 500