Course description

The Sage 300 General Ledger module is the core financial component of Sage 300 ERP and serves as the central repository for financial transactions across the organization. This comprehensive course provides participants with practical knowledge and hands-on experience in configuring, maintaining, and using Sage 300 General Ledger.

Participants will learn how to set up the General Ledger environment, manage account structures and segment codes, create and maintain accounts, process journal entries, post transactions, generate reports, perform periodic processing activities, manage budgets, and produce financial statements using Financial Reporter.

Through demonstrations, guided exercises, case studies, and hands-on labs, learners will gain confidence in managing day-to-day accounting operations as well as month-end and year-end procedures. By the end of the course, participants will be able to efficiently maintain a Sage 300 General Ledger system and support the financial reporting needs of their organization.

What will i learn?

• Lesson one will provide you with an understanding of the setup of the General Ledger and how it relates to performance. You will learn how to change settings to suit your specific accounting requirements, and how to make the most of some optional setup features to ease your data entry load.
• In lesson two, you will learn about the many reports and report options relating to the setup of the General Ledger. You will learn how to use the report criteria to access the information needed, and how these reports will help to manage the General Ledger module.
• In lesson three, you will learn how to create accounts, display account balances, maintain budget information, view source-currency information, display transaction history and fiscal set comparisons, and set account permissions.
• In lesson four, you will learn to print the Chart of Accounts and the Trial Balance reports of the General Ledger. You will learn how to use the report criteria to access the information needed, and how these reports will help to manage the General Ledger module.
• This lesson five will teach you about Sage 300 batch system and how to enter general journal entries with ease and accuracy. Emphasis is placed on routine journal entries and transaction flow. Procedures will also be discussed on how to import transaction batches from other systems.
• In this lesson six, you will learn to print the various transaction reports of the General Ledger. You will learn how to use the report criteria to access the information needed, and how these reports will help to manage the General Ledger module.
• In lesson seven we will introduce the periodic processing functions of General Ledger. They will learn how to retrieve transactions from other Sage 300 modules as well as generate transactions internally from recurring batches and reallocation accounts. This lesson will also cover clearing accounting history and performing year end processing.

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