Certificate in Accounting
This qualification delivers a solid foundation in finance administration and core accounting skills, including double-entry bookkeeping, basic costing and an understanding of purchase, sales and general ledgers.
You'll also develop accountancy-related business and personal skills, and explore the four key themes embedded throughout: ethics, technology, communications and sustainability.
Where this certificate can take you
More than numbers
Alongside core accounting skills, the qualification develops the wider professional awareness employers value most.
Ethics
Act with integrity and apply professional standards to real finance work.
Technology
Work confidently with the digital tools used across modern accounting.
Communications
Present financial information clearly and communicate effectively.
Sustainability
Understand sustainability and corporate responsibility in business.
Four modules, one strong foundation
From setting up bookkeeping systems to understanding the wider business environment — everything you need to start a career in accounting.
Introduction to Bookkeeping
- Set up bookkeeping systems
- Process customer transactions
- Process supplier transactions
- Process receipts and payments
- Process transactions into the ledger accounts
Principles of Bookkeeping Controls
- Double-entry bookkeeping
- Payroll function / Gross / Net Income
- Errors and suspense accounts
- The banking system and bank reconciliations
Principles of Costing
- Understand the cost recording system within an organisation
- Use cost recording techniques
- Provide information on actual and budgeted cost and income
- Use tools and techniques to support cost calculations
The Business Environment
- Principles of contract law
- The external business environment
- CSR, ethics and sustainability
- Impact of setting up different business entities
- The finance function within an organisation
- Produce work in appropriate formats and communicate effectively
- The importance of information to business operations
Choose how you'd like to study
Interactive Zoom sessions
- Schedule: twice a week, 1 hour per lesson
- Duration: 3 months (2 units) or 6 months (4 units)
- Interaction: real-time Q&A with instructor and classmates
- Support: live guidance and immediate feedback
Learn at your own pace
- Access: 24/7 availability to all course materials
- Format: pre-recorded video lessons featuring real students
- Flexibility: study whenever and wherever suits you
- Duration: 6 months' access to recorded lessons
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