Sage 50 Accounts

The latest edition of the Support Bulletin is now available . Topics include: The Chancellor's Spring Statement Making Tax Digital for VAT - What it means for you. How to complete your financial year end Customising invoice layouts Free live…

If you've received income from Covid support grants, you may want to report on what you've received, for example, to help you with a company tax return. It's easy to run a Nominal Activity report to see the activity on your Covid grant nominal codes in…

Commodity codes are used worldwide to classify goods for import and export and are reviewed by the World Customs Organisation every 5 years. The latest changes were made on 1 January 2022. For help to find the latest commodity codes, you can visit the…

If your financial year ended on 31 December, you may now be seeing the message 'Date entered is outside current financial year' whenever you post a transaction. While normally a useful message, you may not want to see it for every transaction you post…

On 21 December 2021 the Government announced additional Coronavirus funding to support businesses in the hospitality and leisure sectors who've been most impacted by the Omicron variant. To find out how to account for grants received in your Sage 50cloud…

Be more efficient in 2022 and stop old records building up, cluttering your accounts and slowing you down. It's easy to delete or hide records you don't need, so why not take a look today? Read more >

Did you know there are two ways to select multiple records in Sage 50cloud Accounts? What's more you can amend your software settings to use the method you prefer. Find out more >

When running your year end you can automatically apply a percentage increase on this year's budgets or actuals to create budgets for next year. But if you use standard budgeting and you have more complicated changes to make to your budgets, did you know…

In the Options window you can set preferences for how windows display in your software. For example, you may want to set colour themes or add gridlines to make things easier to read, set all users to view the same columns, or perhaps configure what…

Did you know you can use the Accounts audit option in Sage 50 Accounts to quickly check for sales invoices that haven't been emailed, printed or posted to the ledgers within 14 days? Useful for protecting your cash flow and avoiding missing invoice queries…

If you work with others on your accounts data, sometimes you may need to find out when a certain change was made or who made it. When this happens, the Event Log can save you time. It's really easy to use and tracks details of important changes, including…

Is there a webpage you refer to often when working on your accounts? Perhaps a page on the HMRC website, or a useful Sage Knowledgebase article. It's really easy to set the F12 function key to open a webpage of your choice from within Sage 50cloud Accounts…

Are you getting the most from your Sage subscription, which packs lots more value than simply smashing your admin. From our top 50cloud features, free training and support to Government advice, we've got you covered. What else could you be bossing? Find…

To help you find answers fast, Sage 50cloud Accounts v28 installs a shortcut to the Sage 50cloud Accounts Help Centre on your Windows desktop, so help is only one click away. In case you missed it, we've also made some great improvements to the Help…

Find answers to all your Remote Data Access queries in our Working remotely hub. Whether you're setting up for the first time, or you need to troubleshoot an issue, we've got it covered. Take a look >

If you need to record proposed dividends and dividend payments, it's easy to do this in Sage 50cloud Accounts using journals and bank payments. Take a look at our step-by-step guide >

When you reconcile your VAT Return in your software, all transactions that were included in that VAT Return are flagged as VAT reconciled. If you later need to check if a transaction has been VAT reconciled, for example, for audit purposes or error…

When you do a bank reconciliation, to make it easier to find each transaction you can sort the Un-matched transactions window. For example, you may want to sort transactions by date to match the order on your bank statement, or you may prefer to sort…

Is it that time of the year again? If your business pays corporation tax, in Sage 50cloud Accounts you can show this as an expense on your profit and loss report after net profit. Our quick guide explains how to record corporation tax liability and…

Taking data backups doesn't have to be a chore. You can use the Backup Manager to make regular backups automatically in the background. So there's no more staying behind in the office to back up, or waiting for others to log out first. Read more …

The latest edition of the Sage Accounts Support Bulletin is now available . Topics include: Automating your backups How to undo a bank reconciliation Tips to boost your cash flow and more... Why not grab a coffee and read a copy online here…

A healthy cash flow is vital for a successful business and Sage 50cloud Accounts has some great features to help with that. But every little helps as they say, so we've pulled together some quick tips you can try straight away. It all adds up... Quickly…

Before important tasks such as your VAT Return or Year end, you can use the Accounts audit options to quickly check for possible errors. Options include: Check for duplicate transactions > Check for invoices not sent or updated > Check tax codes…

Sending your supplier a remittance along with your payment helps to reduce errors and payment queries, as it shows your supplier exactly which invoices you've paid. In Sage 50cloud Accounts it's quick and easy to generate a remittance at the same time…

Time is a valuable resource. The more time spent on a task during the day means less time available to spend on other tasks. Sage 50cloud Accounts has a lot of tools and features to help make things quicker and more time efficient when it comes to your…