Sage 50 Accounts

With the release of Sage 50cloud  Accounts v29 just around the corner, we’ll  take a quick look at what’s new, focusing on the new features that are taken directly from your suggestions on the software Ideas Board here in Sage C...

The approach of Spring also means the approach of the end of the financial year for many businesses, and the need to run the year end routine in Sage 50 Accounts. In this blog, we’ll link to some steps to guide you through the year end process ...

Sage 50cloud Accounts v28.1 features a large selection of features that were requested directly by customers through the Sage City Ideas Board. The Ideas Board is an online forum where you can suggest features and improvements and vote for other sugg...

Corporation tax is tax on limited company profit, paid to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). Sage 50cloud Accounts includes a Taxation area in the chart of accounts. You can use this to show your corporation tax as an expense on the profit and loss rep...

If your workplace has been closed during the Coronavirus crisis you may now be thinking about when to re-open. You may already be back and concentrating to get up and running again quickly. The world of work has changed for so many people during the ...

Hello! Welcome to the first edition of a monthly blog on Sage’s innovative support channel, Q&A Live. For those of you who don’t know, Q&A Live is the quickest way to get a query answered, with a team of experts on hand to help re...

Sometimes little things can make a big difference. Did you know that you can customise the appearance and options in your Sage 50cloud Accounts to make things that little bit easier? Hide what you don't need There are hundreds of great features in Sa...

Processing your accounts is an important, but often time-consuming process. Time is often as valuable a resource to businesses as money. After the first blog where we listed six time saving tools, we’ve created a second instalment, where we hav...

Processing your accounts is an important, but often time-consuming process. Time is often as valuable a resource to businesses as money. With this in mind, we have listed six ways that you can use Sage features and tools to help save you time and pro...

The demands of modern working can make it difficult to maintain a good work life balance. Being flexible is key, and this can include ensuring that you can work from home if required maybe at short notice. Getting prepared now will make it easy to sw...

We all love it when something just works. It could be a simple time saver or a feature that improves the way you work. In this blog we're sharing a range of video guides to simple features and processes in Sage 50cloud Accounts that will help you to ...

It’s always useful to pick up a few tips to help you get more from your software or to save some time when processing. In this blog we focus on five popular areas of Sage 50cloud Accounts: Hide deleted transactions - Can’t see the wood f...

In Sage 50cloud Accounts v25.1 a new feature was introduced to help you with VAT audits and Making Tax Digital (MTD). If you need to make an adjustment to the figures on your VAT Return, you can now add supporting documentation to explain the ad...

The Bank Reconciliation option in Sage 50cloud Accounts is a great feature to help you match the transactions in your software to those on your actual statement from your bank. In Sage 50cloud Accounts v25, we’ve introduced some great new featu...

Make sure your business is ready for Making Tax Digital for VAT. Watch our new free webinar which covers: Registering for MTD with HMRC Preparing your software for MTD Your first MTD submission Watch now > 

After you run your financial year end, it’s a great time to tidy up your accounts and remove any old, unwanted records. Over the years you’ve probably built up a large number of customers or suppliers that you no longer deal with. Also, y...

In Sage Accounts, recurring entries are a great way to save time. Simply set up any payments or receipts that happen regularly, such as direct debits and standing orders, then you can process them all at the same time. You can even set up a reminder ...

It's useful to see exactly what a feature does before you use it in your live company. That's why Sage Accounts has two extra areas where you can try out features and practice tasks without affecting your live data. Your company data This is your liv...

If your financial year end is just around the corner, we’ve a wealth of support material to help make it a smooth and simple process: In Ask Sage, we have a very popular financial year end guide. Why not bookmark it now for reference when you ...

For a lot of businesses, the end of the calendar year coincides with the end of their financial year. To help your year end run smoothly, you can get ahead by completing some quick tasks now. Post all outstanding transactions – Make sure your ...

If your business trades in different currencies, the Sage 50cloud Accounts Foreign Trader module makes it easy to record your business transactions. You can configure customer, supplier and bank records to use different currencies, so you can handle ...

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By now you've probably heard of Making Tax Digital (MTD) even if you're not exactly sure what it means for your business. Under MTD, most companies have to submit their VAT Returns to HMRC from their accounts software from April 2019. This m...

As your business grows, you're likely to be adding more and more records to Sage 50 Accounts, which may make it tricky to find the right one you need quickly. Using the Quick Search option, filtering and sorts, you can easily narrow down the num...

Once you start using Microsoft OneDrive for Business for Business you'll wonder how you ever managed without it.  With OneDrive for Business, you get extra cloud storage space and the security of storing documents off-site, but that's o...