sage line 50

[Unicornchris]

Hi..am brand new to the site, am coming to the end of my manual bookkeeping courses and am pretty happy with the way things have gone. But every job i look at is asking for experience with 'Sage' software. Was going to buy the software anyway but want to know if its possible to teach yourself, by playing around with it, or if its better to do a 3 day course or to do a 12 week course at college. Am trying to do this as cheap as possible.Any feedback would be really appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Ann-marie]

Hi,

I found it really straight forward to pick up sage, however Sage do some good courses if your interested, I can't post the URL as i haven't done enough posts but if you look on the Sage website under training it should give you a good idea.

I think a 12 week course might not be worth it - depending on how much it would cost of course as it's quite easy to pick up and a self study or 2 day sage course would give you a good understanding of how the system works.

 

[patientlady]

The problem with buying the software, any software, if you are just playing with it you have nothing to play with! You need a purpose and a company set up to input the information, to play with! does this make sense ( not sure)

 

[garyk]

You could buy Sage Instant which is a cut down version of Line 50 but has *nearly* all the features for £99 or less, you might find it even cheaper than that online.

 

[ZHopps]

Depends on how quickly you pick things up.
Sage has demonstration data within it (a full set of data that you can 'play with') and a very good 'help' menu - but you have to be at the stage where you know what questions to ask!
I would suggest it would be worthwhile paying for a bit of training from Sage - you can get self-study workbooks from them or go for classroom training.

 

[JD2009]

Search for the course B190 Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting with the Open University, this course also includes Sage software.
JD.

 

[Unicornchris]

Thanks a lot for everyones advice. Will take it all on board and probably go with the 2 day course. Cheers!