Unleashing the Power of Sage - What is New in 2012

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Unleashing The Power of Sage and ACTMadingley Hall26th April 2012

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What’s New in Sage 50Karen Gibbons – Senior Consultant, Sage Division

What’s new to you all depends on your current version of Sage 50

Show of hands who is on the latest version?

Who is on version 2011 or 2010?

Who is on an older version?

Let’s look at the major improvements made

in the last 3 versions of Sage 50.

Where are you coming from?

Significant improvements in speed and processing

Quick Print.Directly send sales orders, purchase orders, invoices and quotations to the printer removing the need to select a layout every time one is produced

Quick search.Simple text search has been added to many lists

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What Changed in Sage 50 V2012?

Lock Date

Stop people from adding transactions to an accounting period you class as closed

Corporation tax - Improved Reporting

Detail profit before and after tax

Taxation category in the Chart of Accounts layout.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2012?

Bank Reconciliation

Add customer receipts or refunds as well as supplier payments and refunds to adjust your records

The Retrospective Bank Reconciliation report has been updated so that it now looks like a bank statement

Progress bar is displayed while your software is performing a reconciliation.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2011?

Activity Window

The customer, supplier and nominal activity windows now include the department associated with the listed transactions.

Journals

Journals now include an Ex ref column

Use it to add more details about a journal.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2011?

Favourite Views

You can now set the software so that each time it opens it displays the area you use most often. You can also set your financial ledgers to display in list form, as a process map or as dashboard information.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2011?

Charities (non profit organisations)

A Profit and Loss and a Balance Sheet report can now be generated for each fund. Also, by choosing the chart of accounts for Charities when you install your Sage 50 Accounts, your software is automatically set for the needs of a non-profit organisation.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2011?

Data Import Wizard

The data import function in Sage 50 Accounts has been upgraded to provide customers with a much easier to use Wizard function, supporting both CSV and Microsoft® Excel files.

You can now match any column in the data source to any of the pre-defined columns in the relevant table in the Sage 50 data files. Matching maps can be saved for later recall.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2010?

Till Takings

Record Till Takings in a pre-defined bank account, and then record the banking of the takings using Bank Transfer.

You can now record your till takings, then record the banking of those takings using bank transfer.

Bar Coding

Product records can now have a bar code

Can represent a products, warehouse location, picking list,

BOM structure or other appropriate application.

What Changed in Sage 50 V2010?