Sage 50 Forecasting Course Details
Classroom training is great if you want to work in a hands on classroom environment with only 12 people, allowing you the time to ask the expert tutors questions relevant to your business. The other members of the class may also raise issues which may be useful to you. You will have your own PC to work on and a detailed course manual to take away with you at the end of the course so you can refer to it back in the office. You can also get a Certificate of achievement and the training is accredited by the Institute of IT Training, meaning that it is a top quality Sage 50 Forecasting course.
Course overview
- Creating weekly or monthly forecasts using sections and sub-sections
- Entering forecast information for sales and cost records using various calculation methods
- Understanding ‘hot-linking’ from other Sage software and Microsoft® Excel
- Forecasting using standard and composite stock records, including stock channels
- Forecasting for both fixed and financed fixed assets, and revaluation of assets in a forecast
- Considering external elements that affect forecasts, such as VAT rates, taxation and bank interest
- Customising Sage 50 Forecasting to configure the bank account, business tax and dividends
- Incorporating multi-currencies and memo records
- Analysing forecasted sales and costs by department
- Provisions for bad debts, obsolete stock and other general provisions
- Dealing with Sales Ledger and stock financing
- How to flex data in a forecast and extend the forecast to cover a longer time period
- Entering or importing actual figures into forecasts and creating variance reports
Who should attend?
Choose this course if you're a new or existing user who wants to know how set up and use Sage 50 Forecasting.