Course Objective
The course is designed to provide graduates with a practical ability to get their first job in financial services or within an accounting / finance area of a company.
Suitability
- This course would suit a graduate without a formal finance or business degree, but would like to start working in this area.
- The course can be taken by people who are not graduates but are looking to develop their skills in finance and enter the industry
Course Format
The course brings together three components; Souters Bookkeeping Training Course, Microsoft Excel Training Course, Finance for non-financial professionals and Microsoft Access Training.
Course Content
This is a 2 day intensive course aimed at providing the learner a sound understanding of double-entry bookkeeping.
- The completion of financial documents such as invoices and credit notes
- The recording of cash and credit transactions
- Practical explanation of double entry system
- Posting of ledgers and relevance of T-accounts
- The preparing and balancing of a bank reconciliation
- Petty Cash
- Year end adjustments including accruals, depreciation, pre-payments etc.
- Journals
- Preparing a trial balance from raw data
- Extended trial balances and year end adjustments
- The creation of straightforward Profit & Loss and Balance sheet reports from trial balance
This is 2 day intensive course aimed at providing a sound understanding in the concepts of finance, how to understand and analyse financial data and
- The profit and loss account (income statement) and the balance sheet
- How to stop abuses of established accounting policy.
- The use of creative accounting methods
- Key financial ratios
- Ratio analysis to real company accounts in practical terms
- Management of working capital
- The importance of liquidity and cash-flow control
- Cost control and management; categorisation of costs
- Trading margin and revenue generation improvements
- What is break even analysis
- How your business plans capital investment; assessment methods.
- Achieve business targets through deployment of financial data.
Microsoft Excel
The course is delivered online interactively and includes an optional assessment which will lead to certification if successful.
Microsoft Access Course
The course is delivered online interactively and includes an optional assessment which will lead to certification if successful.
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