What Careers Can This Lead To?
A range of careers are open to you on completion of these qualifications.
- Accounting technician
- Accounts clerk
- Finance clerk
- Private practice accountant
Candidates will:
- Check and process documents involved in financial record keeping
- Develop skills to carry out routine book-keeping processes
- Develop underpinning knowledge of book-keeping principles
- Prepare statements as a preliminary to financial control.
- Check and correct errors arising from inaccurate/incomplete/missing entries in the ledger and day books
- Provide for depreciation of fixed assets using ledger accounts
- Account for accruals, prepayments, bad debts and provide for doubtful debts
- Prepare individual accounts in purchase and sales ledgers
- Prepare purchase ledger control accounts and sales ledger control accounts
- Complete an extended trial balance.
- Prepare final accounts of sole trader, partnerships, companies and not-for-profit organisations from Conventional and incomplete records
- Prepare year end and other adjustments associated with the above variety of organisations
- Demonstrate an understanding of accounts through analysis and interpretation.