Course description
In just 12 months, this specially tailored home study course, can help you to understand the principles of bookkeeping; gain a solid foundation of knowledge in this field, and help you to develop core skills that will enable you to handle both manual and computerised bookkeeping.
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Training Course Content
Unit 1: Underpinning Knowledge
- Understand the importance of adhering to a code of professional ethics
- Understand the legal differences between the structure of different types of businesses
- Understand the specific accounting requirements for different accounting systems
- Understand the basic accounting concepts
- Understand the importance of legislation that applies to bookkeepers
- Understand the importance of the chart of accounts
- Understand the importance of IT systems in a modern bookkeeping world
- Understand the basic principles involved in double entry bookkeeping including the format of the accounting equation
- Identify the various methods of payment and receipts to and from a bank account
Unit 2: Prepare Business Documents
- Understand the purpose and range of business documents
- Understand the need to accurately prepare business documents for goods and services supplied
- Understand the need to check business documents received
- Understand the various rates of VAT
- Understand how to correctly account for VAT in a bookkeeping system
- Understand how to account for VAT transactions with customers in, and suppliers from, other countries
- Understand the purpose of, and making entries into, a bookkeeping system
- Calculate the value of equity
- Understand how to upload and match bank transactions
- Understand the use of control accounts in the system
- Understand the purpose and need to record petty cash
- Post appropriate journal entries into the system
- Understand the purpose and use of the trial balance
- Reconcile relevant account balances
- Understand the need to correct errors
- Produce relevant reports
Course delivery details
Accredited by the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB), each of the 8 units taught on this course aims to enlighten, expand and broaden your understanding and comprehension of bookkeeping, so you can gain real and transferable skills that can be applied within the workplace.
To complete this course you will need to take three online assessments that are designed to test your knowledge of the course materials. These can be completed at home, at work or wherever you have access to a secure internet connection.
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