Ledger, VAT return and calculator on a desk during an accounting fundamentals class
- Status
- Specialist course
- Subject
- Accounting
- Level
- Beginner
- Duration
- 30 guided learning hours — typically five days intensive or six weeks part time
- Delivery
- Live online, or on site for groups
- Options
- Individual, group or corporate
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- Availability
- Worldwide — Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, or in the UK
- Study options
- Online from your own country, or in person in the UK
- Course fee
- Quoted on request
Course overview
Accounting Fundamentals is the entry point to every other programme we teach. It takes learners with no formal accounting background and gives them a working command of the accounting equation, debits and credits, the general ledger, and the trial balance. Every concept is taught against worked examples drawn from small and mid-sized businesses of the kind found across the GCC, so that learners can see immediately how a transaction moves from source document to financial statement.
Who this course is for
- School leavers and graduates entering a finance role
- Administrators who have inherited bookkeeping duties
- Business owners who want to read their own accounts
- Anyone preparing to begin a professional accounting qualification
Learning objectives
By the end of the programme learners will be able to:
- Apply the accounting equation and the rules of double entry with confidence
- Record transactions through day books and post them to the general ledger
- Prepare and interpret a trial balance and correct common errors
- Distinguish capital and revenue expenditure, accruals and prepayments
- Draft a simple income statement and statement of financial position