Manual Book-keeping

Introduction to Basic Book-keeping and Accounts. This course will provide participants with a practical guide to basic book-keeping.

Manual Book-keeping
The course is designed to meet the requirements of the Level 1 Certificate in basic Book-keeping examination of the Institute of Certified Book-keepers.

Objectives
Participants will gain book-keeping skills that will enable them to process accounting information to trial balance.

Prior knowledge
No previous knowledge of book-keeping is required.

Duration: 4 evenings / 2 days (weekend)
Cost: £350
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Workshop Contents

Day 1
• Business categories
• Reasons for keeping records
• Principle of double entry book-keeping
• Debits and credits
• Introduction to VAT
• Entering transactions into books of original entry (day books)
• Departments and Employee Analysis
• Two column cash books, petty cash and the imprest system
• Journal and its uses Credit Control


Day 2
• Ledger accounts and making opening entries into the ledger accounts
• Calculating balances in the ledger accounts
• Writing off bad debts
• Posting payroll transactions
• Bank reconciliation and creating a bank reconciliation statement
• Preparing a trial balance
• Setting up business systems and house styles
• Data protection, the Sale of Goods Act, business banking and data security