Bookkeeping - Accounting Technician Diploma

Bookkeeping Course - Accounting Technician Diploma

This Diploma is a fully comprehensive bookkeeping course. If you want a great career in accountancy or bookkeeping, this is the course for you. In just months, you''ll be able to: Run a cash book Reconcile purchase orders, delivery notes and invoices Check the creditworthiness of potential customers and learn how to chase payments Balance ledgers and prepare a profit & loss account and balance sheet Use Sage to Prepare a VAT return, use Inland Revenue tables to calculate tax and National Insurance Prepare and analyse budgets and cash flows with Excel. These are transferable skills which are sought after by most employers and of all the bookkeeping courses on offer, the Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma will increase your marketabilty enormously. Unlike many accounting technician courses, this one is very practical and will equip you with the knowledge you''ll need to start your new career.

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:·

Popular electives at the moment include:

Word Proficient or Expert

Company Law

Effective Business Communication.

This is one of the most comprehensive bookkeeping courses in Britain. It''s a lot to learn, but don''t worry, our course advisors will be with you every step of the way.

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.

This course is suitable for beginners and also for those having some work experience in purchase or sales ledger.

This course aims to increase your employability as a bookkeeper by giving you a range of solid, practical skills that can be applied quickly and easily in the workplace.