Available in Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher.
Business Status
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The Sage 50 Business Status Center displays a variety of general business
information, including account balances, revenue figures, receivables
and payables data, and action items. It also includes a feature that lets
you find, display, and/or print a Sage 50 report.
Some of the data that appears in the Sage 50 Navigation Centers can
be drilled
down on.
These spots are marked by blue text. Just click it to go to a related
window displaying detail information.
Customize Business Status
Also, you can customize the Business Status Center to show information
the way you want. In fact, customizing is a good idea if you want the
Business Status Center to display faster. You could tell Sage 50 not
to show some of the sections (such as Account Balances or Top Customers),
and this would speed things up because the more data there is to display,
the longer it takes to load. Just click the Customize
this page button at the top of the window.
Security Settings
The information and access points you see in the Business Status Center
are controlled by your user security settings. Depending on these settings,
you may see more or fewer features in the Business Status Center than
other Sage 50 users. For a better understanding of security settings
and how they affect your access to parts of the Sage 50 program, see
your administrator.
Limiting access to the Navigation Centers:
If you're the administrator for Sage 50 security, you can decide what
parts of the Business Status Center and other
a user can view and/or work with. Tell me more about this.
The Account Balances
section lists all accounts set up in Maintain
Chart of Accounts, including all cash, payable, and receivable accounts.
The accounts are listed by description and ID. The final column lists
the cash balance for each account. Account
Balances is customizable; just click the Customize
button.
You can sort the accounts by account ID (second column); just click the Account
ID heading at the top of the column.
There are three links at the bottom of the grid:
- View
Account List: Click to see a detailed list
of all current accounts.
- View
Balance Sheet: Click to view the standard Balance
Sheet (financial statement) for your company.
- Reconcile
Accounts and Import Bank Statements: Click to access the Account
Reconciliation window.
The Revenue section
gives you a snapshot of your company's revenue figures for each accounting
period in the current fiscal year.
Revenue amounts:
At the right of the section are dollar amounts for
- Total Revenue
- Cost of Sales
- Gross Profit
- Expenses
- Net Income
Since cost of sales reduces total revenue, gross profit
is expressed as
total revenue – cost of sales
Since expenses reduce gross profit, net
income is expressed as
gross profit – expenses
The graph:
At the left of the Revenue section is a graph showing trends for each
of the leading revenue figures through each period of the year. You can
see at a glance, for example, if your total revenue for the year is tending
up or down.
There are three links at the bottom of the grid:
- View
Income Statement: Click to view the standard Income
Statement (financial statement) for your company.
- Set
up a Budget/Edit a Budget: Click to access the Budgets window.
- View
Budget vs. Actual: Click to view the Account
Variance report for your company.
The Customers Who Owe
Money section lists all customers with outstanding invoices or
beginning balances. For each customer, the list includes the following:
- Customer ID
- Customer Name
- Amount Due
- Due Date
You can sort customers by due date (fourth column); just click the Due
Date heading at the top of the column.
There are three links at the bottom of the grid:
The Vendors to Pay
section lists all vendors with outstanding purchase invoices or beginning
balances. For each vendor, the list includes the following:
- Vendor ID
- Vendor Name
- Amount Due
- Due Date
You can sort vendors
by due date (fourth column); just click the Due
Date heading at the top of the column.
There are three links at the bottom of the grid:
- View
Purchases List: Click to see the Sage 50 Purchase/Receive
Inventory List.
- Make a Payment: Click to go to the Payments window, where you can make a payment to
an individual vendor.
- Make Multiple
Payments: Click to
go to the Select for Payment
window, where you can choose a range of vendors and invoices to pay.
The Aged Receivables
grid shows the dollar amount of all outstanding customer invoices in each
of the four aging
categories set up in Customer
Defaults. The final column in the grid lists the percentages of outstanding
bills in each category. For example, if aging Category 1 shows 50%,
that means 50 percent of all outstanding customer bills fall into this
category.
You can sort the four aging categories (first column); just click the Days Overdue heading at the top of the column.
The pie chart:
The pie chart at the left of the Aged Receivables grid gives a graphic
representation of the percentages in each aging category. The percentages
are color-keyed; match them with the colors in the Key
column. For a detailed listing of all customers who owe you money, click
the chart; the Sage 50 Collection
Manager will appear.
There are three links at the bottom of the grid:
- View
Customer List: Click to see the Customer List, which lists a variety
of customer-related information.
- View
Aged Receivables Report: Click to view the Aged
Receivables report for your company.
- Receive
Payment: Click to receive
payment on a customer invoice.
The Aged Payables
grid shows the dollar amount of all outstanding vendor invoices in each
of the four aging
categories set up in Vendor
Defaults. The final column in the grid lists the percentage that falls
in each aging category of all outstanding bills. For example, if aging
Category 1 shows 50%, that means
50 percent of all outstanding vendor bills fall into this category.
You can sort the four aging categories (first column); just click the Days Overdue heading at the top of the column.
The pie chart:
The pie chart at the left of the Aged Payables grid gives a graphic representation
of the percentages in each aging category. The percentages are color-keyed;
match them with the colors in the Key
column. For a detailed listing of all vendors you owe money to, click
the chart; the Sage 50 Payment
Manager will appear.
There are four links at the bottom of the grid:
The Top Customers
section lists the company's top ten customers based on gross-profit figures.
These are the top ten customers for the last twelve calendar
months rather than your company's fiscal year. Knowing your top
customers can be useful, especially if you like to send "thank-you's"
to your best customers or if you usually notify these customers of special
sales.
For each customer, the list includes the following:
- Customer ID
- Customer Name
- Gross Profit
You can sort customers by gross profit (third column); just click the Gross Profit heading at the top of the column.
There are two links at the bottom of the grid:
The Find
a Report section offers you a way to quickly locate and view a
report or form. Do the following:
- Use the Category
drop-down to select a report category—for
example, Customers & Sales.
- Use the Report
drop-down to select a specific report or form—for
example, Customer Ledgers.
A brief description of the chosen report
appears in the Description text
box.
- Now, you can do one
or both of the following:
- To display the chosen report on the computer
screen, select Display. You'll
be able to work with the report as you would with any report in display
mode.
- To print a copy of the report, select
Print. You'll see the report Options
window, which will let you filter the report, if desired, before printing.
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