I'm having to do some extra training for my work using Sage 200. I just wondered if anybody knows of a good text book/study guide for Sage? I just would like to understand the basics really - my colleague is training me on month end consolidations and admin but I'd like to get a bit of a head start.
The BPP AAT foundation bookkeeping with Sage and spreadsheets with Excel is excellent as it guides you through all of the basics whilst putting you in a psuedo live situation.
I would highly recommend it over the how to type guides which I find a lot more difficult as they're not hands on.
The book above comes with data files for you to practice with but I can't guarantee that they will work with your version of Sage.
I managed to get the V10 files to convert to use with V14 but for love nor money V14 would just not play with the V11 files at all.
Have a look and see if you think that it fits what your looking for.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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On Shaun's recommendation, I used the BPP book and I can add my praise. It has a nice CD of sample data to work on and the exercises are pitched at a good level.
I'm now taking the ICB Level II exam and have no trouble with it (as far as I can tell).
been a while since we chatted. Howz life with you?
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Good thanks, Shaun. As I said, I'm doing the ICB Level II comp exam at the moment while I wait for the result of the manual level II. Then, fingers crossed, it will be back to studying Level III manual in preparation for the June sitting, hopefully with the Level III comp before then (if all goes well).
I'll find 2 weeks on Thursday whether my grant application has succeeded and whether I'll be hitting the dole queue on April 8th.
I've pretty much decided to start down the AAT route this year or next so, being a born again skinflint, I'm gleaning every bit of information I can on here to do it as cheaply as possible.
How are you doing with your studies and do you know where you came up short before?
Think that your making the right decision with AAT matey. When I start seeing jobs ads for ICB qualified people I might change my mind but until then I'll keep pushing AAT as a route for anyone who asks me.
I've just printed out the December sitting examiners answers from the ACCA website (they were only released today) and am going through those thinking. I knew that, I knew that, I knew that... Why didn't I pass!
Think that it's not that I don't know it. It's that the exam is too time pressured and I miss some obvious marks in trying to answer everything rather than answer well.
Concluded that my main enemy is time rather than knowledge so it's got to be lots of timed exam practice on the run up to the June exams.
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for you two weeks Thursday... Hope I haven't got to do too much typing that day!!!
All the best,
Shaun.
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I've always had a terrible time writing quickly and legibly so I worked very hard on my exam technique when I did my first degree.
I think that anything technical, as accounting is, must have exams and assignments marked against a scheme that awards marks for particular (bullet) points. The trick is to minimise the stuff between the key points.
I achieved grade 1s on all but one of my degree courses by choosing which questions to answer (that's not always possible, though) and being pretty sure what was going to get me the marks. In some cases, due to my slow handwriting, I just bullet pointed what I would have written more fully but it doesn't seem to have gone against me.
Thanks guys, I'll have a look at that BPP AAT book then and see if it is what I am after.
Shaun, sorry to hear you didn't pass your exam. Neil has the right idea though - I have heard a lot of stories about people getting marks for jotting down bullet points when they start to run out of time in an exam. Always worth a shot.
I'll let you know how I get on with the book hunt.
