Kelly - Sage One For Dummies

Sage One For Dummies

by Jane Kelly, ACMA

Sage One For Dummies

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About the Author

Jane Kelly trained as a Chartered Management Accountant while working in industry. Her roles ranged from Company Accountant in a small advertising business to Financial Controller for a national house builder. For the last few years Jane has specialised in using Sage accounting software and has taught a wide variety of small businesses and employees the benefits of using Sage. More recently Jane has been involved in writing For Dummies books, the first one being Sage 50 For Dummies, which continues to be a popular choice for Sage users. This latest book has been produced to explain the benefits of the Sage One service that has recently launched. Jane saw a gap in the market for providing a book that offers a Have a Go section where readers can use dummy data to try out the online accounting service.

Authors Acknowledgments

I hope that this book will help many of the small business owners that currently struggle keeping up-to-date with their finances. I want people to understand that if a system is set up properly, it will be very easy to use and the business will gain maximum benefit from it.

I want to thank everyone at Wiley who have been very kind and supportive, particularly Rachael Chilvers and the rest of the development team who have turned my words and pictures into the For Dummies book that you see before you.

I would also like to thank the staff at Sage UK Limited, particularly Michael Barber and Richard Hughes, who have patiently answered my questions and comments about Sage One.

Finally, I would like to thank my husband Malcolm and my daughter Megan who have put up with me disappearing into the office to work on the book for what must have seemed like a never-ending time.

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to my daughter Megan and my husband Malcolm. Without their support none of my books would ever have been created.

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