Accounting Technician Diploma
Designed for: Those who wish to develop a comprehensive range of manual and computerised book-keeping and payroll skills, together with spreadsheet knowledge.
Objectives: To provide you with the essential skills for a rewarding career in financial accounting.
Course Content
Core Subjects
Basic Book-keeping – Gain a clear understanding of the basic principles of book-keeping. Learn how to maintain a cash book, petty cash book and reconcile a bank statement.
Purchase Ledger – Become proficient at maintaining a manual purchase ledger.
Sales Ledger – Become proficient at maintaining a manual sales ledger.
Manual PAYE – Learn to calculate wages and salaries using Inland Revenue tables, understand tax codes, Inland Revenue forms, and how to complete them. Covers holiday pay, statutory sick and maternity pay.
Final Accounts I – Learn the principles of double-entry book-keeping in order to maintain a nominal ledger and extract a preliminary trial balance.
Final Accounts II – Learn how to extend the trial balance in order to prepare the final accounts of a business (profit and loss accounts and balance sheet).
Sage Line 50 – Convert your manual book-keeping skills to computerised accounts using the most popular software.
Sage Payroll – Convert your manual payroll skills to computerised skills using this most popular program, including statutory sick and maternity pay.
Microsoft Excel – Learn spreadsheet skills to a good business standard. This will enable you to create spreadsheets, enter data, formulas and functions, create charts and more.
Microsoft Excel Expert – Learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables.
Numeric Data Entry – Learn efficient use of the numeric keypad.
Recommended Electives – choose ONE:·
Book-keeping Level 2 – A Study Guide
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word Expert
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Outlook
The above are recommended electives for this Diploma. Alternative subjects may be chosen. Please discuss options with your course advisor
Benefits
Equip you to start a new career.
The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace.
Personalised workbooks to use as a reference guide on completion of your training.
On successful completion of this diploma and the Book-keeping Level 2 Study Guide, plus IAB practice papers, students will be eligible to take the IAB Certificate in Book-keeping Level 2. Alternatively, students may opt to take the OCR certificate in Accounting Level 2 qualification or IAB Computerised Book-keeping Level 2 qualification.
The opportunity to gain a Pitman Training Diploma that is recognised nationally and internationally by employers.
Guideline Learning Time:
6 weeks full-time* (180 hours flexi study) *based on 20-30 hours a week
