Certified Accounting Technician (CAT)

Advanced Level

Achieve full Certified Accounting Technician status with this home study course from Premier Training. This course offers a clear path through the Advanced Level of the prestigious CAT award.

Advanced Level:

All the specified topics are fully covered by carefully paced course units, and you are able to practice your skills and to prepare for the exams with a combination of activities, project work and mock exams - all with full tutorial support. The study topics include:

Paper 5 - Managing People and Systems

• Organising Work
• Recruitment and Selection
• Development and Performance Review
• Motivation
• Working with People
• Computer Hardware and Software
• Systems Design

Paper 6 - Drafting Financial Statements

• Users of and good qualities of accounting information
• Revision of basic accounting and accounting concepts
• Club Accounts
• Incomplete records
• Partnership accounts
• Limited company accounts for publication
• Regulatory and conceptual framework and statement of principles
• Post balance sheet events
• Contingencies, goodwill and taxation
• Cash flow statements
• Ratio analysis
• Simple consolidated accounts

Paper 7 - Planning, Control and Performance

• Management accounting and information
• Cost accumulation
• Costing Methods
• Budgets
• Standard costing
• Cost reduction and performance measurement
• Decision making Options (two from four)

Options (two from three):

Paper 8 - Implementing Audit Procedures

• The statutory and professional regulations governing auditing
• Audit planning
• Computers in auditing
• Audit testing
• Audit reporting
• Auditor liability

Paper 9 - Preparing Tax Computations

• Calculation of income tax
• Prepare computations of property and investment income
• Prepare tax computations for trades and professions
• Prepare capital gains tax computations
• Account for Corporation Tax
• Prepare Corporation tax computations and returns

Paper 10 - Managing Finances

• Cash flow cycle and forecasts
• Sources of finance
• Cash budgets
• Working capital management
• Investment appraisal

Before you start: you will need CAT Intermediate Level or an equivalent ACCA approved qualification (such as a BTEC National in Business) to take this course.

This course will help you:

• Prepare for the Advanced Level examinations
• Achieve full Certified Accounting Technician status
• Gain a qualification for many jobs in Taxation, Auditing, Corporate Insolvency, Management Consultancy and Accounting Services etc.

The complete course contains:

• Five Study Manuals
• Five "i-learn" CD-Roms
• Five sets of "Passcards"
• Five "i-pass" CD-Roms
• Five exam-focused Revision Kits
• Fifteen assignments with marking service
• Five practice exam papers with marking service (one for each paper)
• Personalised study programme
• Personal tutor and tutorial helpline to answer any academic queries you may have
• An optional employer reporting service

Should you have any queries about the course and its suitability for you, please do not hesitate to contact Premier Training for an impartial no-obligation discussion with one of our tutors.

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