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Sessions | Thursdays: 10am - 12pm |
No. sessions | 6 |
Venue | Beeston Library, Beeston |
For ages | 19+ |
Group size | 5 - 15 |
Cost | Free |
Following on from Bookkeeping for Beginners this next steps course offers a further selection of basic bookkeeping topics at beginner level, with aims to:
• provide learners with an introduction to bookkeeping practices and to process source documents that underpin accurate record keeping;
• meet the needs of learners who work or want to work in a job role eg Accounts Trainee or Finance Clerk;
• allow learners to learn, develop and practice basic bookkeeping skills required for employment and/or career progression in the accounting sector;
• contribute to the knowledge and understanding towards the related AAT Foundation Level 2 and to City & Guilds Level 1 Award in Bookkeeping and Accounts.
Course topics include maintaining a cash book using double entry bookkeeping, bank reconciliation, posting from source documents to balance off ledger accounts (sales, purchases and general ledger) and extracting a trial balance, preparing a balance sheet. Information about bookkeeping practices will be shared through explanation, demonstration and group discussions. Learners will receive a variety of documentation to process, so they can learn, develop and practice basic bookkeeping skills required for employment.
By the end of the course, you will:
• Be able to record cash book (two and three column) transactions and credit transactions using double entry book-keeping.
• Understand bank reconciliations: Update a cash book from details appearing on a bank statement and recalculate the closing balance. • Prepare a bank reconciliation statement
• Understand initial trial balance: Post individual transactions from the day books and source documents to personal ledger accounts.
• Be able to balance ledger accounts including the cash and bank accounts and bring down the balances to the following accounting period. Extract the trial balance
• Know how to prepare a balance sheet.
Learners will need access to a basic calculator and it will be helpful to have an email address. Although handouts and financial documentation will be provided, a pen and paper or other suitable device to make notes will be useful. One hour of self-study time will be beneficial to the learner in addition to weekly attendance to the course.
There are no set textbooks that you must read for the course although you may find the following of interest: Frank Wood’s Bookkeeping and Accounts
To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).
As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
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