Archive for author: sbwordpressadmin

Good Advice – You must give to receive

I am a regular contributor to UK Business Forums, and quite often respond to queries, mostly to people who are having problems with their Sage software or bookkeeping, and then move on and forget about it. I was really s...

Sage 50 Additions Add-On Software

Sage 50 is a great product which is very reasonably priced for a small company to use for all their accounting requirements, and if you have Sage 50 Accounts Professional, you have stock control functions and sales and p...

ACT! 2011 – Unable to cast object of type

Do you use ACT! Standard 2011 or ACT! Premium 2011, and have you ever experienced the error starting “Unable to cast object of type …” when you try to customise the columns view? ACT Error Message This ...

Sage 50 Payroll for the tax year 2012/13

Today I took the new feature course for Sage 50 Payroll for the tax year 2012/13. Instead of calling it Sage 50 Payroll 2012 or Version 18 , they are changing the name to try to make it more obvious which tax year the so...

Sage 50 2012 Accounts Mobile on iPad

Sage have now released Sage 50 Accounts Mobile for the iPad. You can download the app through the Apple app store. The app gives you the flexibility to investigate and view your Sage Accounts data when you are away from ...

Sage Data Check – Budget is Negative

If you are using Sage correctly,  you should be running regular Sage Data Checks each time you have been in the system doing any data entry – you are always prompted to do this check each time you close the softwar...

ACT 2012 and Sage 50 Accounting Integration

I have this week started to use a lovely new PC, and so have had to install all my software from scratch.  Having used ACT! 2011 previously with the Sage and Accounts linked in the ‘old’ way I thought I would...

Sage Instant Accounts 2012

What is Sage Instant Accounts? Sage Instant Accounts is the UK’s most recommended accounts software. It’s simple to use with the right training, and designed to help you manage your money, including VAT, end of yea...

Sage 50 Accounts 2012 – Service Pack 1

Another Sage 50 Accounts Update is currently being rolled out.  As for previous updates, if you run a multi-user system, once you have updated one machine you must then go ahead and update all machines which use the same...

Sage – How to Manage your VAT part 2

Following on from Sage  – How to manage your VAT part 1, here, as promised, is a guide to producing and submitting a VAT return in Sage 50 and Sage Instant Accounts. I would always you recommend you take a backup o...