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2 day course

Just purchased Sage 50 Forecasting (formerly Sage Financial Forecasting) and need to get started with the initial set up and operational features? Then this is just the course for you. The Sage 50 Forecasting course covers all the fundamentals you'll need to become conversant with your new software.

Course content

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 1 Create a New Forecast

• Discover the options available for creating a new forecast, adding extra sections to the forecast structure and saving your forecast to a user defined default file location.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 2 Create records and sub sections

• Review the various methods of creating records in your forecast, consider the types of record available and find out how to structure your forecast date into sections, sub sections and level 2 sub sections.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 3 Record Opening Balances

• Learn how to enter the opening balance sheet and deal with the settlement of opening trade debtors and creditors.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 4 Use Income and Cost Records

• Examining the various means of entering your forecast data across income and cost records.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 5 Wages Records and Hotlinking

• Deal with the optimum way of entering wages and also how to hotlink information from Excel, Sage Accounts and Sage Payroll.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 6 Standard Stock Model

• In the standard stock session you will see how to account for closing stock in the Balance Sheet, as well as the cost of sales in the Profit & Loss.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 7 Stock Channels and composite stock

• Review the options for dealing with multiple stock channels and composite stock.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 8 Fixed Asset Records

• In this session you will discover how to work with Fixed and Financed Asset records including depreciation and revaluation.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 9 Loans, Other Assets/Liabilities Records and Capital

• Find out how to deal with loans received and loans made, the options available for using other asset or liability records and how to deal with capital in your forecast.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 10 Settings for Automated Records

• Review the automated records for taxation, dividends and bank records.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 11 Multi Currency, Memo Records and Departmental Analysis

• Discover how to maintain currencies and exchange rates and how to deal with multi currency forecasting. Also, we examine the benefits of memo records and how to achieve departmental analysis in your forecast.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 12 Sales Ledger and Stock Financing and Provisions

• Review the program’s Factoring and Stock Financing capabilities.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 13 The Key Forecast Values Pane and Reports

• View the effects of changing data on the Values Pane and also the report options available within your forecast.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 14 Extending and Flexing a Forecast

• Explore how to flex records in your forecast and how to extend your forecast period.

Sage 50 Forecasting training course session 15 Actuals and Variances

• Learn how to enter the actual figures in your forecast. Review the possibility of entering revised budgets and explore the actuals against either original or revised budgets, via the variance reports.

Please note: This course is not suitable for Instant Forecasting users.

• Sage Winforecast Professional (2 days)
• Sage 50 Accounts stage 1 (2 days)

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