This is a 2 day workshop and the course is also available as a distance learning programme.

What do I learn?

Learn everything you need to know about managing a stock control system and processing sales and purchase orders. This course also covers sales invoices and credit notes, quotes and pro forma invoices, as well as foreign trading and Intrastat reports.

By the end of this course you will:

• Know how to plan and maintain stock records, post opening balances andrecord adjustments

• Know how to set up multiple delivery addresses for your company, yourcustomers and suppliers

• Be familiar with the purchase order cycle, know how to process from entry todelivery and match and post invoices to orders

• Understand product pricing and discount structures

• Be familiar with the sales order cycle, know how to process from entry todespatch and link to other areas of Sage 50 Accounts Professional

• Know how to perform stock takes, process stock adjustments and deal with stock returns and stock month end journals

• Know how to use the Bill of Materials function to assemble finished goods from stocked components

• Be able to produce product invoices and credit notes

• Be able to produce quotes and pro forma invoices

• Be able to produce repeat invoices using recurring transactions, skeletons and duplicates

• Know how to run a stock year end and make global changes

• Know how to set up foreign trader, produce foreign currency orders and receipts and create foreign currency price lists

 For students who are taking this course as a distance learning programme, you will be assigned a qualified tutor who is a qualified accountant with substantial experience to offer you with online and telephone support for the duration of three months. Support is available between 9am-9pm Monday - Saturday. Distance learning students also get workbooks and CD roms containing the sage software available up to 180days. The exam should be taken within 3 months of starting the course and receiving your materials. The fee for the exam is included in the course fee. The exam is online based and students determine the date they want to take the exam from the comfort of their home.

Participants of workshops can also elect to take the exam for an additional fee of £90 to cover course workbooks and software of sage (which expires after 180days). Note- this fee does not include additional tutor support.