Bookkeeping For Beginners

Make this training programme your first step to a high-status, well-paid career as a book-keeper!

A fascinating, practical manual bookkeeping course for people who want to take their first steps to learning to be a bookkeeper. 

And it covers part of the OCR and IAB Level 2 book-keeping examination requirements, as well as introducing the basics of keeping accurate accounting records to those running a small business. 

Aimed at absolute beginners, this programme will take the average learner approximately 22 hours of study at our comfortable London Pitman Training centres in either Notting Hill or High Holborn. 

This fascinating bookkeeping course comprises 8 core lessons with lots of practice to ensure your skills are deeply embedded: 

• Lesson One – The role of the book-keeper, the difference between capital, assets and liabilities, the dual effect of transactions and the double entry system, the accounting equation, the difference between cash and credit transactions, preparing simple balance sheets, identifying transactions in ledger accounts 
• Lesson Two – The basic principles of Value Added Tax, calculating VAT, constructing sales invoices, trade and cash discounts, posting sales invoices to the General Ledger 
• Lesson Three – Checking purchase invoices for accuracy, credit notes, posting purchase invoices and credit notes to the General Ledger, the purpose of the Purchases Day Book, Purchase Ledger, posting an Analysed Day Book to the General Ledger and Purchase Ledger 
• Lesson Four – Purpose of an Analysed Sales Day Book, making postings to the General Ledger and Sales Ledger, understanding why Returns Day Books are used, identifying debit and credit entries, using day books confidently and accurately. 
• Lesson Five – Why the Cash Book is used, processing Cash Book payments and receipts, balancing the Cash Book, preparing a postings list, preparing a 3 column Cash Book 
• Lesson Six – Why the Petty Cash Book is used, processing Petty Cash payments and receipts, balancing the Petty Cash Book, preparing a cheque requisition 
• Lesson Seven – Using a Postings List to update the General Ledger, updating the Sales and Purchase Ledger from the Cash Book, balancing ledger accounts, posting balances from a list, coding day books 
• Lesson Eight – The purpose of a trial balance, preparing a trial balance, demonstrating the ability to maintain day books, prepare ledger balances and extract a trial balance

Entry Requirements
None.