Manual Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is a growing profession – it is demanding, exciting, challenging and above all, rewarding. It is about understanding how a business works and then providing accurate figures that enable the business to know exactly how well it is doing.

Candidates who are well organised and methodical, like working through documents and enjoy seeing a set of figures add up properly, will benefit from this course and employment as a bookkeeper.

Units covered include:

• Business Documents
• Books of original entry
• Credit control
• Ledger accounts
• Trial balances
• Security of data
• VAT returns
• Cash books
• Reconcile sales and purchase ledger accounts
• Correction of errors
• Bank reconciliation statements
• Sole traders
• Year end ledger entries
• Non-profit making organisations

Assessment is through externally set exams.

Upon successful completion of this course, candidates will be able to embark on the computerised bookkeeping course.

Entry Requirements:

No formal entry requirements are necessary although a logical mind, comfort with numeracy and an ability to see a job through to its end is required.