Instant Accounts

Sage Instant Accounts and Instant Accounts Plus make bookkeeping a straightforward task for small businesses, letting you record, control and examine your finances quickly and easily. Instant Accounts products are ideal for small companies of every type, including sole traders and new start-ups.

Sage Instant Accounts products have all of the usual accounting ledgers and they do your double-entry bookkeeping for you. Routine tasks are made simple and straightforward; for example, when you fill in your VAT Return, you fill in the details on a screen that looks like the VAT Return you send to the tax office.

No prior knowledge of accounting or computers is needed; the User's Guide takes you through how to use Instant Accounts on your computer and provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up your new accounting system.

Keeping track of your trading is easy because graphs, tables and built-in reports show at a glance where your money is coming from, going to and where it is right now. Instant Accounts is also fully compliant with the latest legislation.

Features & Benefits
The Sage Instant Accounts range is designed to support your business. The new version 10 has a host of new features designed to give you a clearer picture of your business.

Upgrades and add-ons- keeping up with your company's growth by offering you a range of Sage accountancy upgrades and add-ons, responding to your company's development needs.
Support and help- helping you set up your accounting system with an easy to follow User's Guide, and a free period of SageCover, which gives you a taste of the excellent technical support service offered by Sage.
Find facility- making it easy for you to search for that missing item amongst your records using either the amount, the account or the reference number, to give you quick results.
New - Accounts Analyser- unlocks the information in your nominal ledger – the heart of your accounts – instantly giving you a snapshot of your current financial position.
New and Improved Look and Feel- incorporates Smart Link and Task based Navigation and Task Based Navigation, taking you to the details you need quickly and easily. View any transaction and ‘hot link’ to any corresponding data.
New to Instant Accounts - Full Integration with MS Office- allows information to be sent to MS Word, Outlook and Excel allowing you to use the information stored in your system efficiently.
New - Management Information System (Instant Accounts Plus only)- unlocks the wealth of information stored in your Accounting System, providing an elegant and easy-to-understand graphical representation of key management information.
New – My Business Set-Up- setting up Sage Instant Accounts for the first time is simplicity itself, My Business Saves you time. Choose a configuration that suits your business type.
Simple stock control (Instant Accounts Plus only)- giving you the ability to run a stock take and make stock adjustments.
Two-user capability (Instant Accounts Plus only)- enabling you to double your productivity by having two people working on your accounts at the same time.
Improved cash management- allowing you to keep track of your debtors and write debt-chasing letters. Control over sales and purchases - letting you quickly see how much you owe, how much your customers owe you and which invoices are overdue.
Time savings- computerising your accounts gives you fast and accurate records, and the automatic financial reports save you valuable time.

System Requirements
Minimum Hardware: An IBM compatible computer with a Pentium 400 MHz processor; 64MB RAM (128MB for Windows 2000 and XP); 150MB of free disk space after Windows has been installed (200MB if you do not have Internet Explorer installed) a copy of Internet Explorer version 6 or higher (this is included on the CD); an SVGA video card and monitor supported by Windows running at 800x600 pixels, with a minimum of 256 colours.

Recommended Hardware: An IBM compatible computer with a Pentium 1 GHz processor; at least 128MB RAM (256MB for Windows 2000 and XP); at least 200MB of free disk space after Windows has been installed (250MB if you do not have Internet Explorer installed); a copy of Internet Explorer version 6 or higher (this is included on the CD); an SVGA or higher resolution video card and monitor supported by Windows running at 1024x768 pixels, with a minimum of 24-bit true colour.

One of the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 98 (Second Edition)
Microsoft Windows ME
Microsoft Windows NT V4 (with Service Pack 6a)
Microsoft Windows 2000 (with Service Pack 3)
Microsoft Windows XP (with Service Pack 1 or 1a)

Users of networked versions should use one of the following networks:
Microsoft Windows Networking
Novell Netware v5.0
Novell Netware v6.0