AAT Essentials Bookkeeping (2 Days)
This two-day AAT essentials bookkeeping trainer-led course introduces you to the accounting system from the source documents used at the start of the process right through to preparing financial statements at the end.
Course Aims:
Take control of your financial future with our one-day budgeting course designed for managers and small business owners. Our expert trainers and learning materials will equip you with the budgeting know-how so you can set priorities, allocate resources, and stay on track to achieve your financial goals.
Bookkeeping helps you understand your revenue, expenses, and cash flow, so you can spot potential problems before they become major issues. Our experienced trainers and learning materials will equip you with an understanding of bookkeeping principles so you can keep accurate records of your financial transactions, including sales, expenses, and payments.
Course Outline:
- Apply the principles of double-entry bookkeeping
- Reconcile control accounts
- Write common journals
- Prepare initial financial statements
- Correct both disclosed and undisclosed errors and clear a suspense
- Process transactions through both the general and subsidiary ledgers.
- Financial transactions within a bookkeeping system
- Processing transactions through the ledger to the trial balance
- Understanding controls in a bookkeeping system
- Identifying frequently occurring errors
- Using the journal to correct errors
- The purpose of the suspense account and how to clear it
- The importance of finance skills to enable your business to operate more efficiently
- Making better business decisions based on finances
- Developing confidence and effectiveness when discussing finances to increase efficiency and profit
- Having more informed conversations with finance colleagues to reduce the risk of miscommunication or misunderstanding
- Providing more insightful reports based on financials.
Delivery Methodology:
- Presentation by tutor
- Case study
- Feedback activity
Benefits Perceived by attendees:
- Better understanding of Budgets and budgeting.
- Better understanding of budget limitations and constraints.
- Ability to manage project and business budgets effectively & efficiently.
Intended for:
This course is perfect if you’re a small business owner looking to learn essential bookkeeping skills, working in finance but want to brush up on your bookkeeping skills. Looking to upskill by bolstering your bookkeeping skills.
Course Duration:
2 Day (7 hours / day)
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