Human Edge offers a wide range of SAS training courses from our dedicated training facilities located in South Melbourne (see map) or Sydney (see map), as well as on-site, in regional areas and offshore, as requested.

The training is hands-on, with each participant using a dedicated computer. Participants also receive comprehensive training manuals and other relevant resource materials.

Our highly qualified instructors, with a blend of technical skills and a sound understanding of the school environment, continuously focus on providing individual attention to all the participants. Where needed, you will have the opportunity to have all your specific questions answered for a guaranteed powerful and effective learning experience.

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Family & Students

About the Course
	Provides hands-on experience in learning how to enter Enrolments, manage Family Records and edit Student Records
	Covers various ways of working with Student records
	Teaches you how to run Student Reports
Training Outcomes
	Enter and maintain Student, Family and Contact information
	Look-up student details
	Link Students to their Families and Contacts
	Enter Enrolment information for future students
	Add information to drop-down lists
	Use general navigation and the Find function
	Produce Student Reports
Course Audience
	The course is intended for people who are new to SAS and need to manage Student and Family Records
	Current SAS users who need a 'refresher'
Prerequisites
	There are no prerequisites for this course.
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Financials Level 1

About the Course
	Learn how to generate fees, process receipts, process credits, making payments, manage financial records
Course Outcomes
	Learn to setup and generate Fees for your school
	Check the accounts created by the Fee Generation
	Enter Exemptions, Rebates and Discounts
	Produce Family Fee Statements
	Enter payments received for fee and other items
	Enter sundry receipts (eg. Government Grant money)
	Create a Bank Deposit Slip
	Create a register of Creditors
	Enter and print cheques
	Record payments made directly from your bank account
Course Audience
	The course is intended for people who are new users of SAS and need to process and manage financial records
	Current SAS users who require a ‘refresher’
Prerequisites
	There is no assumed knowledge of working with SAS, though it is preferred that Family and Students training has been attended.
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Financials Level 2

About the Course
	This course will give you an insight into how to process bank reconciliations, manage your chart of accounts, process your BAS and manage the schools budgets.
	Other topics covered in this course are: manual bills, EFT receipts, bulk receipts and credits, transfer fees, fee credit matching, general journal and asset register
Course Outcomes
	Complete a bank reconciliation in SAS
	Enter General Journals
	Complete your BAS in SAS
	Create an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) schedule for periodical receipting
	Process the EFT schedule for your periodic receipting
	Enter Bulk Receipts, for a payment that is to be split over several fee payers
	Enter Bulk Credits, for a credit amount that is to be split over several fee payers
	Raise manual accounts for students during the year
	Enter bills for non fee items (eg. Hire of the School Hall)
	Transfer Fees from one fee payer to another
	Use the Fee Credit Matching function, to match outstanding credits to bills on the fee payer’s account.
	Enter your Budget Figures
	Add or Edit G/L Accounts in your Chart of Accounts
	Enter Assets into the Asset Register
Course Audience
	The intended audience for this course is people, new or current users, who process and manage financial records in SAS
	People who require a ‘refresher’
Prerequisites
	People attending the course are expected to have some knowledge of working with SAS
	Preferably Financial 1 training has been attended
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Exporting and Mail Merge Introduction

About the Course
	The course will teach you how to set-up a Mail Merge document
	Learn how to export from the Enhanced Export and SAS forms and filter the data
Course Outcomes
	Search for segments of required data
	Export Data in the way that best suits your needs
	Create a Mail Merge document using the exported data
	Use a Data Source to create documents
	Learn to use the Enhanced Export for Student and Family information
	How to perform basic Filters in the Enhanced Export
	Exporting from SAS Forms
	Preset Exports in SAS
Course Audience
	People who use SAS as a record keeping and reporting tool for the Student and Family records
	Those who use MS Word to perform Word Processing functions
Prerequisites
	Knowledge of working with SAS Family and Student records is necessary therefore prior training in Family and Student is preferred.
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Creditors Course

About the Course
	Hands-on experience in learning how to manage the creditor records, enter purchase orders, enter creditor invoices, and process payments to your creditors
	Create commonly used product codes
	Link purchase orders and invoices
Course Outcomes
	Enter and maintain your creditor records
	Enter and manage the purchase orders
	Link purchase orders to invoices
	Set up a generic product listing for commonly purchased items.
	Set up product listings specific to Creditors, for items purchased from a particular supplier
	Enter Purchase Orders
	Raise Invoices from the Purchase Orders entered into SAS
	Enter Invoices for items that do not have a Purchase Order in SAS
	Enter Payments for an individual Creditor
	Set up to process EFT payments
	Process payment runs for cheques or EFT
	Record the return of a payment
	Enter Credit Notes
	Compare Budgets to Creditor Purchase Orders and Invoices
	Run Purchase Order reports
	Run Creditor Invoice reports
Course Audience
	The intended audience for this course is new or current users of SAS who need to process and manage accounts payable records
	People who require a ‘refresher’
Prerequisites
	There is no assumed knowledge of working with SAS
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About the Course
	Entering Enrolment for an existing family.
	Entering Enrolment for a new family.
	Deleting an enrolment (child no longer coming).
	Enroll one student.
	Enroll all the preps for the start of the school year.
	Moving student back to enrolment if attendance is delayed.
	Receipting enrolment/booking fee.
	Run report.
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About the Course
	Learn to record, edit and report the student Period Attendance
	Setup for Period Attendances
	Record attendance/absences per Class or Year Level for Full Day Period Late for school Leaving early
	View Attendances
	Edit Attendances
	Run reports for Attendances
Course Outcomes
	Record student attendances
	Look up student attendances
	Edit student attendances
	Produce Reports for student attendances
Course Audience
	Those who use SAS to record students attendances/absences from school, and need to create a report based on attendances.
Prerequisites
	There is no requirement that you have used other modules and functions in SAS
	It is assumed that you have knowledge of working with Family and Student records within SAS and have a basic knowledge of SAS.
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About the Course
	Learn to record, edit and report on Student Activities at your school
	Setup Student Activities
	Create Activities, for example: Sport Clubs After School Care Lunchtime Programs
	Assign teachers and allocate students to Activities
	Remove Students from an Activity
	View Activities
	Bill for Activities
	Run reports for Student Activities
Course Outcomes
	Setup Activities
	Create Activities
	Assign Students and Teachers to Activities
	Report on Activities
Course Audience
	Those who use SAS to setup and record Student Activities at the school, and need to create reports based on the activities
Prerequisites
	There is no requirement that you have used other modules and functions in SAS.
	It is assumed that you have knowledge of working with Family and Student records within SAS and a basic knowledge of SAS.
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About the Course
	Learn to create next year’s classes, archive students who are leaving, flag students who are repeating, and update students classes and year levels
	Also learn to flag students who are repeating their year level or leaving the school, print Transfer Notes, prepare the student class allocations for the new school year, print next year’s class lists for checking, update students to their next year level and class, archive the students who are leaving and update the enrolments
Course Outcomes
	Create Next Year’s Classes
	Print Next Year’s Class Lists
	Perform the Student rollover to update students for the new year
Course Audience
	The intended audience is people who use SAS to enter enrolments and maintain student records, and need to update the student records for the new year
Prerequisites
	Prior knowledge of working with Family and Student records within SAS and a basic knowledge of SAS.
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About the Course
	This course will teach you how to get your database ready for the end of year
	Topics covered in this course include: debtor account checks, receipting advance payments for next year, entering credits, refunding overpayments to parents, running the Arrears Consolidation and closing the Financial Year
Course Outcomes
	Handle transactions for the next financial year
	Perform debtor end of year checks and preparations
	Prepare for and run the arrears consolidation
	Close the financial year in SAS
Course Audience
	Those people who use SAS to manage and maintain the school’s accounts, and who are responsible for running the arrears consolidation and closing the financial year
Prerequisites
	It is assumed that you have a strong knowledge of and experience working with financial data and records within SAS
	People who enroll in this course are expected to be proficient in: entering Receipts and Credits, posting Transactions, working with the Chart of Accounts and running Reports in SAS.
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