Bookkeeping for Personal and Business Accounting
Online
4 WeeksQuick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Futurelearn |
The Syllabus
- The reasons and objectives of management and financial accounting, including stewardship, control and accountability
- Key terminology including income and expenses, assets and liabilities, profit and loss statements and the balance sheet
- Intermediate numerical skills including BODMAS, ratios, percentages, fractions and negative numbers
- The test of reasonableness and the table of equivalencies
- Manipulating equations and formulas
- Business entity and the dual aspect concepts
- The relationship between the accounting equation and double-entry bookkeeping
- Recording transactions in the appropriate ledger accounts using the double-entry bookkeeping system
- Simple balance sheets in a vertical format
- Balancing off accounts at the end of an accounting period
- Preparing a trial balance
- T accounts, debits and credits
- Double-entry and the profit and loss account
- The effect of profit on the accounting equation
- Income and expense accounts
- Accounting for closing stock
- The account equation and double-entry rules
- Trial balance nominal ledger accounts