Sage tutorials?

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Work-Shy-Wanabe

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1,318 posts

228 months

Wednesday 14th February 2007
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Anyone have any links to some good tutorials for Sage instant accounts?

It has a pdf with it but its 400 pages and I dont have time to read it or learn by trial and error.

Jubal

930 posts

231 months

Wednesday 14th February 2007
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Our local business link organises regular courses. Why not give yours a bell and see what's up?

Work-Shy-Wanabe

Original Poster:

1,318 posts

228 months

Wednesday 14th February 2007
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Jubal said:
Our local business link organises regular courses. Why not give yours a bell and see what's up?


Thanks I'll try that tomorrow. (gives me an excuse to give up for tonight, cheers!)

pugwash4x4

7,541 posts

223 months

Wednesday 14th February 2007
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hvae you really thought through the imlication of sage.

it is NOT the best software for many people. We spent a huge amount of money running sage, and have now gone back to spreadsheets because it just didn't work for us.

Work-Shy-Wanabe

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1,318 posts

228 months

Wednesday 14th February 2007
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I want it all in an accounts package really and my accountant uses sage, otherwise Id probably stick with Quickbooks. Its also possible to integrate my ecommerce sites with it, which in the long run should make things easier.

Anyway knowing how to use Sage isn’t a bad skill to possess.

BliarOut

72,857 posts

241 months

Wednesday 14th February 2007
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Work-Shy-Wanabe said:
I want it all in an accounts package really and my accountant uses sage, otherwise Id probably stick with Quickbooks. Its also possible to integrate my ecommerce sites with it, which in the long run should make things easier.

Anyway knowing how to use Sage isn’t a bad skill to possess.

I'm slowly going through the pain barrier and getting there. I think it's good to understand how an accountant looks at your business. Plug away, backup very regularly and ask questions on here one at a time if you get stuck. Seems to work for me

TheKeyboardDemon

713 posts

209 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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Have a look at some of the other packages out there too, such as MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) this software has many of the same features that Sage has but without the complexity. More accountants use and recommend Sage than any other package, however that doesn't make it the best package around just simply the one that more accountants use, IIRC MYOB can transfer data in a Sage formatted way to make it easier for your accountant however you'll find the MYOB way may well be easier for you.

Phil Hopkins

17,111 posts

219 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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I too am struggling to find the time (and will-power) required to learn sage properly.

Might give the MYOB program a bash.

Eric Mc

122,332 posts

267 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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Sage is most bought - and never used - book-keeeping software package in the world.

martin hunt

301 posts

270 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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The Best manual for Sage I found was the yellow pages....

look in there under book keeper and spend the £50 per month on them rather than lose or make your hair grey.

bossgriff

104 posts

209 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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If you've bought Sage I think you should perservere a bit longer because I bought TAS Books Accounting (TAS was bought out by Sage a few years back)and taught myself it mainly through the demo company tutorial on the s/w package. Apparently my accountant said that TAS is very similar to Sage and if I can learn it I'm sure you'll be able to pick up.

On my s/w package I have a Quick Start and Tutorial Manual as well as the Reference Manual go through the Tutorial Manual and you should be able to crack it then.

I can recall that I used to be pulling my hair out at times trying to understand TAS but I think I know it really well now and I achieved it by not going to any training courses as I find that these type of courses are too intensive and when you get home you've only retained about 20% of it any way.

Size Nine Elm

5,167 posts

286 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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As a moderately-finance-knowledgeable person, but non-accountant, I couldn't get on with Sage at all, and would recommend QuickBooks - far more intuitive, and the accountants don't seem to mind either!

Never had any training with QB, but was up and running almost straight away.

work-shy-wanabe

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1,318 posts

228 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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I was using quickbooks but could convert it to sage. So rather than change accountants Ive changed software. It cant be that different from quickbooks can it?


bossgrif, have you got the Tutorial Manual in pdf format and welcome to piston heads?



Edited by work-shy-wanabe on Thursday 15th February 20:01

bossgriff

104 posts

209 months

Thursday 15th February 2007
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Thank you for the welcome.

No I haven't got it in PDF but I will try to get hold of it for you if I can.