Bookkeeping Courses - Descriptions
Here is a list of our bookkeeping courses and a brief explanation of what you can expect to learn.
Click on the course titles to see a more in-depth description, then contact us for prices and course durations
To enrol or find out more, call
Bromley: 0208 313 3882
Chatham: 01634 818400
Croydon: 0208 688 0378
Dartford: 01322 220430
Gravesend: 01474 320734
Maidstone: 01622 693141
Sittingbourne: 01795 423338
Tunbridge Wells: 01892 545228
Or contact us by email.Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma
One of our biggest and best recognised bookkeeping courses covering Sage 50, Final Accounts, Payroll, Excel, Purchase Ledger, Sales Ledger and much, much more! This is the programme that totally equips you to get a job in book-keeping.
Foundation In Bookkeeping Diploma
A nationally recognised qualification providing a good grounding in finance and book-keeping skills including Basic Book-keeping, Excel and Sage.
Sage 2011
Using Britain's most popular book-keeping software package, you'll learn purchase, sales and nominal ledgers, customer and supplier control accounts, raising invoices and credit notes, VAT, trial balance, profit & loss and balance sheet. Our Sage Line 50 course goes much further than most bookkeeping courses, giving you real practical knowledge you can apply at work.
Basic Bookkeeping Course
A manual course where you'll learn accountancy and bookkeeping vocabulary such assets, liabilities, debtors and creditors, cash and credit and what they mean and how to use them as you develop practical skills related to basic aspects of bookkeeping.
Beginners' Bookkeeping, Module 1
A great introduction to bookkeeping for beginners where you'll learn the vocabulary and basic processes that underpin the whole accounting function.
Intermediate Bookkeeping, Module 2
Following on from Module 1, this programme introduces ledgers, VAT, credit control and payroll.
Advanced Bookkeeping, Module 3
In this programme, you will learn how to prepare a trial balance, using journals, how to create a profit and loss account and a balance sheet and how to close off the ledgers.
Purchase Ledger Course
A manual course where you'll learn how to reconcile the purchase ledger with Purchase Order requisitions, delivery notes and invoices. How to account for credit notes or retrospective discounts.
A manual course where you'll learn how to spot bad debts and poor payers early, the importance of credit control and getting paid, reconciling the sales ledger, giving discounts, credit notes and returns.
Final Accounts 1
A manual course where you'll learn double entry book-keeping, the UK's standard basis for book-keeping and accounts, to ensure that all your ledgers are ready for the production of management accounts.
Final Accounts 2
A manual course where you'll learn how to prepare management accounts including trial balance, profit & loss account and balance sheet. Using the nominal ledger. Understanding and calculating prepayments and accruals.
Manual Payroll
Using actual Inland Revenue tables, in this manual course, you'll learn how to use tax codes, sickness and maternity pay rules to calculate how much tax and National Insurance to deduct from gross wages. Also P45's, P46's, P60's etc.
Sage Payroll
Computerised wages where you'll learn to calculate tax and social cost stoppages for weekly and monthly payroll runs and how to send this data to the nominal ledger of Sage Line 50. Also end of year calculations.
Excel Proficient
You'll learn how to create graphs and charts for management reporting as well as formulae for the fast and accurate creation of spreadsheets for budgeting, cash flow projections etc.
Excel Expert
An advanced Excel course equipping you with expert tools for the calculations of "what if" scenarios. Useful for management and cost accounting.
Using the MS Office 2007 version of Excel, You'll learn how to create graphs and charts for management reporting as well as formulae for the fast and accurate creation of spreadsheets for budgeting, cash flow projections etc.
Numeric Data Entry
If you need to input lots of numerical data, this short course will greatly increase your productivity.
How It All Works.
Our bookkeeping courses are all driven by pre-recorded lectures and high quality workbooks with the constant support of our on-site trainers. It's a very personal way yo study and it means you can never miss a class and you can work to your own timetable - ideal if you're either already in a job or going for interviews. You don't even need to keep to the same hours each week - you can pick and choose when you want to study and for how long!
How To Book Or Find Out More About Our Bookkeeping Training.
We're famous for all office skills training including secretarial, touch typing, IT skills, web design and business skills.
Our range of courses is designed to increase your appeal to any recruitment agency!
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Or phone us:
Bromley: 0208 313 3882
Chatham: 01634 818400
Croydon: 0208 688 0378
Dartford: 01322 220430
Gravesend: 01474 320734
Maidstone: 01622 693141
Sittingbourne: 01795 423338
Tunbridge Wells: 01892 545228
We're looking forward to hearing from you.
