Bookkeeping Skills

The Programme

The Business Finance programme is designed for people who wish to gain an understanding of principles and practice of finance within their business. This course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. You will receive a course manual, assignments and study guide plus tutor support by email.

Course Units:

1. Bookkeeping
2. Credit Control
3. Costing and Pricing
4. Management Accounts

The objectives of the course are to:

? Define the need for keeping books
? Describe common book-keeping methods
? Understand credit control techniques and methods
? Devise debt recovery procedures
? Understand costing and pricing models and methods
? Conduct break even analyses
? Prepare a trading budget
? Manage cash and cash flow
? Compose basic financial reports

The Bookkeeping programme is designed for people who wish to gain an understanding of the principles of bookkeeping as an aid to running a small business or keeping financial records of small businesses.. This course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. You will receive a course manual, assignments and study guide, plus tutor support by email.

The course is divided into two sections to develop your understanding and build into a comprehensive study of bookkeeping methods. The course covers:
Ledgers and cash books
Value Added Tax
Day books
Double entry and cash
Reconciling accounts
Management accounts
Financial accounts

Section 1
Unit 1: Introduction to keeping financial records
Unit 2: The ledgers and cash book
Unit 3: Value Added Tax records
Unit 4: Day books

Section 2
Unit 1: Double entry and cash
Unit 2: Reconciling accounts
Unit 3: Accounting for Value Added Tax
Unit 4: Management and Financial accounts
Unit 5: End of period adjustments

On successfully completing the course you will receive a Petroc Certificate of Completion. Hours can be counted towards recognised structured CPD

Costs

£245

Venue

Distance Learning

Dates

You can start at any time and plan your studies over a period of up to six months.

Length of Study

Four to six months. The course will take around 60 hours of study to complete.