AAT - Foundation Certificate in Accounting (Level 2) from an AAT Approved Provider

The course is fully accredited by the AAT, who are the UK's largest professional body for vocational qualifications for accounting technicians, and provided by e-Careers who are an AAT approved training provider.

The course consists of five units:

• Bookkeeping Transactions
• Bookkeeping Controls
• Elements of Costing
• Using Accounting Software
• Working Effectively in Finance
• The AAT Level 2 Foundation Certificate in Accounting sits at Level 2 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework.

The course will give you knowledge in the following:

• Understanding an organisation’s cost recording system and using it to record or extract data.
• Use of spreadsheets to convey information on actual and budgeted income and expenditure.
• Entering data at the start of an accounting period to set up customer and supplier accounts in accounting software.
• Recording and processing customer and supplier transactions.
• Recording and reconciling bank and cash transactions.
• Processing and using journals to enter accounting transactions
• Production of reports
• Understanding an organisation’s accounting or payroll function
• Using numeracy and literacy communication skills
• Working independently or in a team to prioritise tasks and manage colleagues’ responsibilities
• Understanding ethical values, principles and importance of confidentiality
• Understanding and explaining benefits to organisations of sustainable values
• Understanding double-entry bookkeeping, integrating books of prime entry and describing coding system functions
• Understanding discounts and settlement, trade and bulk discount differences
• Preparing and processing customer and supplier invoices and credit notes
• Totalling and balancing a 3-column analysed cash book
• Totalling, balancing and reconciling petty cash records within an analysed petty cash book
• Processing ledger transactions and extracting a trial balance
• Understanding the purpose and use of control accounts and journals
• Maintaining and using control accounts and the journal
• Reconciling a bank statement with the cash book
• Understanding the banking process and main services of banks and building societies
• Understanding requirements of retention and storage relating to bank documents.