About this course
Are you thinking about working in a job role e.g. Accounts Trainee or Finance Clerk, but you’re not sure yet if that’s what you want to do? Or perhaps you have previous experience of bookkeeping, but it was a long time ago and you’d like to refresh your skills. Next Steps Bookkeeping for Beginners is suitable for beginners with some knowledge or experience of bookkeeping.
You don’t need a maths qualification to attend, but some knowledge or experience of bookkeeping will be beneficial.
This is a follow-on course showing you how to process financial documents that underpin accurate record keeping.
You’ll learn, develop, and practice basic bookkeeping skills required for employment and/or career progression in the accounting sector.
You’ll also gain the knowledge and understanding for further learning if you wish to aim for AAT Level 2 Bookkeeping, or City & Guilds Level 2 Award in Bookkeeping and Accounts.
The course will focus on a range of financial documents. After posting information from source documents to ledger accounts, you’ll then identify errors in ledger accounts, correct them, and record them in the journal. You’ll produce a revised trial balance. You’ll draw up control accounts and be able to differentiate between capital and revenue expenditure. You’ll prepare a balance sheet.
You will learn how to keep the books with an emphasis on recording credit transactions for both a large company and a sole trader. The course focus is on the system of double entry bookkeeping and processing sales, purchase and nominal ledger accounts.
By the end of the course, you will have explored and gained confidence in a range of bookkeeping methods, produced clear, correct and legible records and gained skills for employment or for a move to further learning.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Identify the role of the bookkeeper;
- Prepare sales, purchases and nominal ledger accounts, extract a trial balance;
- Correct ledger accounts errors, record in journal, produce a revised trial balance;
- Draw up sales and purchases ledger control accounts;
- Differentiate between capital and revenue expenditure
- Prepare a balance sheet;
- Maintain petty cash using the Imprest system.
Booking your place and fee information
Booking your place and fee information
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https www.inspireculture.org.uk skills learning funding your courses
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To 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:
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
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