I would like to ask you for help. I have some problems because I dont know which method of learning to choose. I want to learn Sage Accounts. On Sage website , self learning materials are very expensive. I cant afford buying them at least at present moment. There are online courses available but they cost about 80 pounds and you never know what you pay for. What if those online courses are of bad quality? I checked few cheap books on amazon- sage for dummies etc. What surprised me is that there is no cd with trial sage version included. In consequence it is not possible to practice anything on your pc. Probably you need to buy sage accounts software on separate disc or sth and I think it is not that cheap. Which method of learning would you recommend guys? I would like to have a chance to do exercises because I think you learn faster in this way. Can you recommend any method of learning that is moderately expensive?
If you want to learn SAGE then either you need to buy their training packs which comes I think with a 180 day version of the software or buy the software and then buy a book eg dummies guide or something similar and work through it.
You could always see if there are courses locally that teach SAGE either at college or something similar. I for instance teach SAGE over a 2 day course at a local enterprise company every 2 or 3 months at both beginners and if demanded, intermediate level. The course costs £200 for the two days plus I think £30 for the book.
But why SAGE?
You could also learn other software such as VT which I think costs about £200 per year for a licence (cash book version is free) or trial the various online offerings (they mostly do 30 days free trial). Use suspects are Xero, Kashflow, SAGEone, Freeagent, Clearbooks, QuickbooksOnline.
There is also Quickbooks desktop version that is popular. Though personally I am not a fan.
If you look on Ebay you should be able to pick up an older version of Sage and probably course books for a real knock down price (just been on and there is Instant on at £18). It doesn't matter that the version isn't the most recent as most of it has not changed.
