SAP Course- Worth the Money?

Topcat1234

Hi guys. Just a quick question. I'm trying to get a job in Industry. In an accounts Payable/Receivable role. I know that SAP is highly used by the MNCs these days. I saw SAP courses available to do in Dublin though they are really expensive!! Im not working at the moment so I am trying to boost my employ-ability while I start out on ACCA. First exam F3 next Friday (CBE).

The price of the course would almost clear me out but i'm trying to do a cost benifit here. So far I have 9months accounts payable experience in a hospital (Jobbridge).

Any opinions? I'd love to get a poll of what people think.

Thanks very much for reading this.

TC

mr_edge_to_you

It's a good idea but if you're starting out in accounting the only courses you should be focussing on are your upcoming ACCA exams. They are tough enough on their own. Its more important to get a few exams under your belt ASAP.

Obviously you will be looking for entry level roles so you don't necessarily need SAP or any other ERP system experience. You will that on the job. Not every company uses SAP.

If you really wanted to do something IT related and you're not strong on Excel I'd recommend doing a course there. It'd be cheaper and very beneficial regardless of where you go working. It all shows that you're proactive and eager to learn. Its all good experience.

As an accountant who has trained numerous people the thing that frustrates me is when people say they have strong excel skills but cant use "lookups".

Also, doesn't matter system you use - a Debit is Dr and a Credit is Cr.

Best of luck with the studying.

PCX

I just saw this on groupon and I thought it might be of interest to you OP.

It is a Sage 50 training course done online for €69 reduced from €426. Sage is used by lots of companies for their accounts so it might help you get a start somewhere if you can say that you have a knowledge of sage accounts software on your CV. (assuming you haven't already got that from your previous role).

Just note that I have not done this course and have no experience of the company offering the training but for €69 it might be worth a punt.

Sunny Dayz

PCX wrote: »

I just saw this on groupon and I thought it might be of interest to you OP.

It is a Sage 50 training course done online for €69 reduced from €426. Sage is used by lots of companies for their accounts so it might help you get a start somewhere if you can say that you have a knowledge of sage accounts software on your CV. (assuming you haven't already got that from your previous role).

Just note that I have not done this course and have no experience of the company offering the training but for €69 it might be worth a punt.

I got that Sage course on groupon last year. I would mainly use Sage 50 for viewing a clients data but I wasn't overly familiar with the operating of it. I found it very good for me. But if you had a trial version of Sage 50 to play around with also it would help.

bridster007

I would go with a good excel course followed up by plenty of practise by yourself.
Don't see the point in spending money on a course for a package that may not be relevant. Not sure it would be worth much in employer eyes without practical experience anyway.
In addition, every company will have their own way of doing things anyway.

What you need is to develop a logical way of thinking so that you can work with any package. Excel is good for that.
Concentrate on the logical data functions, sumif, lookups, countif, matching, importing/exporting data, working with dates,filters.
These are important areas for analysing AP data.

Graphs/charts are a waste of time at your stage.