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Course Overview:
After you’ve covered the basic of journals, ledgers and double entries, you’ll learn about financial statements and accounting adjustments – everything you’ll need to progress only to further study. You’ll learn-to-earn, by gaining an in-depth understanding of the subject through various practical examples.
No previous experience required to access this course.
Qualification
KBS Diploma is Book-keeping and Accounts.
Support and Benefits
KBS Diploma can be shown as proof to employers of the professional skills you’ve mastered.
Access to a dedicated tutor and student advisors to guide you through your studies.
Key Topics
(A)Book-Keeping and Accounts
The ledger, the cash Book, the Sales Book and the Purchase Book.
Examine the most important book of account, the ledger, in-depth. Explore the cash book and learn how to balance it. Learn how to record sales and purchase in the sales and purchases books.
Double Entry Book-Keeping and Trial Balance
Learn how to conduct double entry book-keeping and how to post to the ledger from other books of account. Discover how to extract a trial balance.
Other Subsidiary Books of Account
Examine the petty cash book, the returns outwards book, the returns inwards book, credit notes, statements of account, and receipts.
The Bank account and bank Statements
Explore bank accounts and learn how to reconcile bank statements.
The Journal
Learn how the journal is used.
Profits, Losses and Final Accounts
Examine the profit and loss account and the trading account
The Balance Sheet
Discover how to prepare the balance sheet.
(B)Finance and Accounting
Introduction to Finance and AccountingExamine management accounting and consider its uses for management. Learn how businesses can raise finance from different sources. Examine in detail internal and external sources of finance. Consider how the three main factors in the working capital cycle can be controlled.
Accounting for Business Managers
Examine the underlying concepts and conventions on which accounting systems are based. Learn how to prepare company final accounts. Discover what accounts and financial statements are contained in a set of company accounts. Consider how stock is valued and examine methods of calculating depreciation.
Accounting Control Systems
Examine budgetary control and consider the objectives it hopes to achieve. Learn how budgets are prepared. Consider how standard costing compares with budgetary control. Explore variance analysis and its relation to standard costing.
Financial Analysis.
Explore the use of ratio analysis in the interpretation of financial information. Learn how a cash flow statement is constructed. Examine discounted cash flows and consider how they are used in capital investment appraisal. Study cost benefit analysis.
Hours of study
6 Months/ 48 hrs.
Technical requirements
None
Course Fee
N40, 000:00