Part Time Accounting Level 2 Certificate (OCR)

Course Code:
N1307

Study Type:
Part Time

Academic Level:
Level 2

Award:
OCR Certificate Level 2

Awarded by:
OCR

Course Length:
Course runs for 17 weeks on Thursday morning (N1111) 9.30am - 1pm (with 30 minutes break) OR Tuesdays (N1307) 6pm - 9.30pm (with 30 minutes break).

Course Summary:
Manual Accounting is suitable for those who already have a basic knowledge of bookkeeping. You may already be employed in a bookkeeping role and wish to develop further knowledge of the principles and practices employed in accounting, or you may wish to prepare for employment in accounting.

This qualification follows on from OCR level 1 bookkeeping and is comparable in demand to GCSE (grades A* - C).

Course Details:

Mandatory Core Unit
Unit 1 Maintain day books, prepare ledger balances and extract a trial balance

Completing day books from invoices, credit notes etc., posting transactions to purchase, sales and nominal ledger accounts and extracting a trial balance.

Assessed by a 2 hour OCR examination in June.

Non-mandatory Units
Unit 2 Process ledger transactions and prepare control accounts

Day books, control accounts, reconciling ledger balances with control accounts, etc.

Unit 3 Make journal entries and adjustments and produce a trial balance
Journals, identifying different types of errors and making appropriate adjustments in order to correct errors, preparing a revised trial balance.

Each of the non-mandatory units is assessed by a 2 hour OCR set assignment at a time agreed between lecturer and students.

Career Progression:
Association of Accounting Technicians at Intermediate Stage.