The Bookkeeping Programme (Home Study Course)
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What is assessed?

This computer based interactive learning method is designed to nurture the learning process and provide you with a well-presented and structured course. The qualification itself has been split into five units for ease of learning:

1. Introduction to business
2. Accounting adjustments
3. Practical bookkeeping
4. Final accounts
5. Self-test questions

1. Introduction to business

This unit covers the double entry recording transactions up to trial balance, and the production of the profit and loss account and balance sheet from the trial balance. Traditional T-accounts are used, as well as journal entries in a typical computer format. No previous knowledge is required.

By the end of 'Introduction to business', you will have learned to record transactions in double entry terms, extract a trial balance and prepare a simple set of accounts for a sole trader.

2. Accounting adjustments

This unit covers specific double entry techniques using the knowledge of double entry learned in the 'introduction to business' unit. Topics such as accruals and prepayments, fixed assets and depreciation, leasing, loans, and hire purchase are all dealt with within this unit.

By the end of 'Accounting adjustments', you will have learned how to process most types of common transactions and adjustments and be able to produce a more complex set of accounts for a sole trader.

3. Practical bookkeeping

This unit covers the recording of transactions in the primary records of businesses, and the posting of the ledgers from the books of original entry.

By the end of this unit, you will be familiar with the more practical aspects of day-to-day bookkeeping.

4. Final accounts

This unit looks at the financial statements of different types of businesses - clubs and societies, partnerships and limited companies.

By the end of this unit, you will be familiar with the contents and format of receipts & payments and income & expenditure accounts, as well as the accounts of partnerships and limited companies.

• Lesson 01 - Introduction to business
• Lesson 02 - Double entry - balance sheet
• Lesson 03 - Balancing off accounts
• Lesson 04 - Double entry - profit and loss account
• Lesson 05 - Profit & loss account and balance sheet
• Lesson 06 - Profit & loss account and balance sheet - further considerations
• Lesson 07 - Nominal Ledger & VAT
• Lesson 08 - Accruals & prepayments
• Lesson 09 - Wages & salaries
• Lesson 10 - Fixed assets and depreciation
• Lesson 11 - Leasing and hire purchase
• Lesson 12 - Sales & purchase ledgers and daybooks
• Lesson 13 - Receipts and payments
• Lesson 14 - The cash book
• Lesson 15 - Bank reconciliation
• Lesson 16 - Control accounts and bad debts
• Lesson 17 - Accounts of Different Businesses

5. Self-test questions

This section provides three tests comprising of a set of questions in a variety of formats. Tests correspond to the teaching units. (Unit 1, Unit 2, Units 3 & 4).

You can simply log on to the system, answer the questions and have your results recorded. Feedback is provided by the system and the tests provide an ideal way of verifying, under simulated assessment conditions, the knowledge and understanding gained as a result of working through the lessons in each unit. Buy Now.