Bookkeeping Courses

Here is a list of our bookkeeping courses and a brief explanation of what you can expect to learn. Click on the course titles to see a more in-depth description, then contact us for prices and course durations. Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma
One of our biggest and best recognised bookkeeping courses covering Sage 50, Final Accounts, Payroll, Excel, Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger and much, much more. This is the programme that totally equips you to get a job in book-keeping.
Foundation In Finance Diploma
A nationally recognised qualification providing a good grounding in book-keeping skills including Basic Book-keeping, Excel and Sage.
Sage Line 50
Using Britain's most popular book-keeping software package, you'll learn purchase, sales and nominal ledgers, customer and supplier control accounts, raising invoices and credit notes, VAT, trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet. Our Sage Line 50 course goes much further than most bookkeeping courses, giving you real practical knowledge you can apply at work.
Basic Bookkeeping Course
A manual course where you'll learn accountancy and bookkeeping vocabulary such assets, liabilities, debtors and creditors, cash and credit and what they mean and how to use them as you develop practical skills related to basic aspects of bookkeeping.
Purchase Ledger Course
A manual course where you'll learn how to reconcile the purchase ledger with Purchase Order requisitions, delivery notes and invoices. How to account for credit notes or retrospective discounts.
Sales Ledger
A manual course where you'll learn how to spot bad debts and poor payers early, the importance of credit control and getting paid, reconciling the sales ledger, giving discounts, credit notes and returns.
Final Accounts 1
A manual course where you'll learn double entry book-keeping, the UK's standard basis for book-keeping and accounts, to ensure that all your ledgers are ready for the production of management accounts.
Final Accounts 2
A manual course where you'll learn how to prepare management accounts including trial balance, profit and loss account and balance sheet. Using the nominal ledger. Understanding and calculating prepayments and accruals.
Manual Payroll
Using actual Inland Revenue tables, in this manual course, you'll learn how to use tax codes, sickness and maternity pay rules to calculate how much tax and National Insurance to deduct from gross wages. Also P45's, P46's, P60's etc.
Sage Payroll
Computerised wages where you'll learn to calculate tax and social cost stoppages for weekly and monthly payroll runs and how to send this data to the nominal ledger of Sage Line 50. Also end of year calculations.
Excel Proficient
You'll learn how to create graphs and charts for management reporting as well as formulae for the fast and accurate creation of spreadsheets for budgeting, cash flow projections etc.
Excel Expert
An advanced Excel course equipping you with expert tools for the calculations of "what if" scenarios. Useful for management and cost accounting.
Excel 2007 Part 1
Using the MS Office 2007 version of Excel. You'll learn how to create graphs and charts for management reporting as well as formulae for the fast and accurate creation of spreadsheets for budgeting, cash flow projections etc.
Numeric Data Entry
If you need to input lots of numerical data, this short course will greatly increase your productivity.
How It All Works
Our bookkeeping courses are all driven by pre-recorded lectures and quality workbooks with the constant support of our on-site trainers. It's a very personal way you study and it means you can never miss a class and you can work to your own timetable - ideal if you're either already in a job or going for interviews. You don't even need to keep to the same hours each week - you can pick and choose when you want to study and for how long!
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