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Accounting & Bookkeeping Courses


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Accounting Fundamentals


If you want to increase your financial awareness and gain a marketable skill, this course is for you. You will learn the double-entry bookkeeping, financial transactions, financial reporting, and more.


Accounting Fundamentals II


Explore the world of corporate accounting and increase your financial know-how while gaining in-demand skills. This course will provide you with a solid understanding of recording and analyzing plant assets, depreciation, interest, dividends, revenue and other important corporate money matters.


Accounting Skills for New Supervisors


Accounting Skills for New Supervisors


Bookkeeping Applications


Are you looking for a career change? Or just want to learn a new skill? The foundation Bookkeeping Course has been developed in response to industry demand and is specifically designed to equip graduates with work-ready skills.


Budgets and Managing Money


Budgets and Managing Money


Certificate in Accounts, Admin and Payroll


If you’re seeking a job in accounts & administration or looking to take your career to the next level, this is the perfect course for you.


Introduction to Peachtree Accounting 2012


Learn how to perform everyday accounting tasks quickly and easily using Peachtree Accounting 2012.


Introduction to QuickBooks 2011


Use the power of QuickBooks software to take control of your business finances.


Intermediate QuickBooks 2012


Discover how to use the advanced features in QuickBooks to gain more control over how you manage your company's accounting files, lists, and inventory.


Introduction to QuickBooks 2012


Learn how to quickly and efficiently gain control of the financial aspects of your business with this powerful accounting software program.


Intermediate QuickBooks 2014


Master the advanced features of QuickBooks and learn to manage multiple company files, create customer statements, enter price levels for inventory, and much more.


Introduction to QuickBooks 2014


Gain control of your business as you learn to use this powerful accounting software to create and print invoices, track your payables and receivables, and more.


Intermediate QuickBooks


Master the advanced features of QuickBooks and learn to manage multiple company files, create customer statements, enter price levels for inventory, and much more.


Introduction to QuickBooks


Learn how to quickly and efficiently gain control of the financial aspects of your business with this powerful accounting software program.


Supervisor Accounting Skills Training


Supervisor Accounting Skills Training



Accounting & Bookkeeping

Accounting can be considered the language of business. In fact, considering that writing is thought to have come about because of the need to record economic transactions, accounting is as old as written language itself. In less poetic terms, this means that accounting is the set of practices used to measure, record, compile, and report financial information so that it is of use to the reader. Depending on the circumstances, said reader can range from investors and creditors to managers, regulators, and other stakeholders in a business.

Put to use, accounting can be separated into a number of fields of specialisation. First, there is financial accounting, which focuses on reporting financial information to users such as investors and creditors who exist outside of the business. In contrast, managerial accounting focuses on reporting the same financial information to managers for the sake of informed decision-making. Furthermore, auditing focuses on examining and evaluating financial information to ensure that it is a fair and accurate reflection of real circumstances, while accounting systems installation focuses on the systems used to produce financial information. Other fields of accounting include but are not limited to accounting for income taxation, governments, and other non-profit organisations.

What Are Accounting Courses All About?

Accounting courses teach both the theories behind accounting and the methods with which said theories are paid to use. Having attended accounting courses, students will understand the principles that serve as the foundation for accounting methods, plus their contributions to the production of fair and accurate financial information. Said individuals will learn how accounting can remain committed to the same goal over the course of centuries, even though it is locked into an unending process of continuous improvement as accountants react, evaluate, and respond to changing circumstances.

However, students who have attended accounting courses will also be able to put accounting to practical use. This means being able to evaluate economic transactions, record them in a fair and accurate manner, compile the financial information into financial statements, and then use financial statements to understand businesses over time.

Of course, accounting courses will also prepare said individuals for the new technologies that have made the practice of accounting easier than ever. Something that will let them save on labor, thus freeing up time that can be better spent on the process of examination and evaluation that is the heart of the field.

People who have attended accounting courses benefit in one of two ways. First, an understanding of accounting is needed to excel in business. Being able to read the financial information produced through accounting methods is essential to being able to comprehend a business's circumstances, without which correct decisions cannot be made except through random chance. Second, attending accounting courses opens the door to a career as an accountant, which is beneficial because accountants are respected professionals who receive excellent compensation. Better still, accountants are in high demand, not least because there are no organizations that can afford to pass up on their services. Not governments, not businesses, not non-profit organizations, and not even private individuals when it comes to tax time.

In short, if a student is interested in pursuing a path that is connected to business in even the most tenuous of manners, then accounting courses can serve as one of the most valuable cornerstones in said individual's skill-set. Depending on the student's personal preferences, accounting courses can even serve as an introduction to a life-long career.

Accounting can be considered the language of business. In fact, considering that writing is thought to have come about because of the need to record economic transactions, accounting is as old as written language itself. In less poetic terms, this means that accounting is the set of practices used to measure, record, compile, and report financial information so that it is of use to the reader. Depending on the circumstances, said reader can range from investors and creditors to managers, regulators, and other stakeholders in a business.

Put to use, accounting can be separated into a number of fields of specialisation. First, there is financial accounting, which focuses on reporting financial information to users such as investors and creditors who exist outside of the business. In contrast, managerial accounting focuses on reporting the same financial information to managers for the sake of informed decision-making. Furthermore, auditing focuses on examining and evaluating financial information to ensure that it is a fair and accurate reflection of real circumstances, while accounting systems installation focuses on the systems used to produce financial information. Other fields of accounting include but are not limited to accounting for income taxation, governments, and other non-profit organisations.

 

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