Objective
The course is designed to provide a practical ability to get their first job in financial services or within an accounting/finance area of a company.
Course Format
The course brings together three components; Souters Bookkeeping Training Course, Microsoft Excel Training Course, Introduction to Financial Analysis and Microsoft Access Training.
Course Content
1. Bookkeeping Training Course-
This is a 2 day intensive course aimed at providing the learner a sound understanding of double-entry bookkeeping.
- The completion of financial documents such as invoices and credit notes
- The recording of cash and credit transactions
- Practical explanation of double entry system
- Posting of ledgers and relevance of T-accounts
- The preparing and balancing of a bank reconciliation
- Petty Cash
- Year end adjustments including accruals, depreciation, pre-payments etc.
- Journals
- Preparing a trial balance from raw data
- Extended trial balances and year end adjustments
- The creation of straightforward Profit & Loss and Balance sheet reports from trial balance
2. Introduction to Financial Analysis-
This is 2 day intensive course aimed at providing a sound understanding in the concepts of finance, how to understand and analyse financial data.
- The profit and loss account (income statement) and the balance sheet
- How to stop abuses of established accounting policy.
- The use of creative accounting methods
- Key financial ratios
- Ratio analysis to real company accounts in practical terms
- Management of working capital
- The importance of liquidity and cash-flow control
- Cost control and management; categorisation of costs
- Trading margin and revenue generation improvements
- What is break even analysis
- How your business plans capital investment; assessment methods.
- Achieve business targets through deployment of financial data.
3. Microsoft Excel-
This course can be taken online or in our IT training centre in London. The course includes an assessment which will lead to certification if successful.
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3. Microsoft Access
This course can be taken online or in our IT training centre in London. The course includes an assessment which will lead to certification if successful.
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Who is it for?
This course would suit anyone without a formal finance education or background, who would like to start working in this area.