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17 Book-Keeping Courses Descriptions
1. Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma
One of our biggest and best recognised book-keeping 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.
2. 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.
3. Sage Line 50
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.
4. 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.
5. Basic Book-keeping 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.
6. Beginners' Bookkeeping, Module 1
A great introduction to book-keeping for beginners where you'll learn the vocabulary and basic processes that underpin the whole accounting function.
7. Intermediate Bookkeeping, Module 2
Following on from Module 1, this programme introduces ledgers, VAT, credit control and payroll.
8. Advanced Book-keeping, 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.
9. 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.
10. Sales Ledger
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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Excel 2010 Beginners To Internmediates
Using the MS Office 2010 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.
Advanced interrogation and manipulation of data using pivot tables, macros and many more advanced features.
16. Understanding Business Accounts.
A short course explaining how to understand and use business accounts aimed at people wishing to start their own businesses or employees requiring a deeper understanding of the finance department.
17. 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 book-keeping 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 to 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!
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Accounting Technician Diploma
At Pitman Training, our aim is to provide you with the highest self-paced training in the most convenient way to you. Because we understand that everyone has different levels of experience, and their own individual strengths and weaknesses, we offer seventeen bookkeeping courses that range in difficulty and duration from single modules to our more comprehensive Accounting Technician Diploma.
With eight core and two elective modules to choose from, our Accounting Technician Diploma covers all the essential skills including Sage 50, Final Accounts, Manual Payroll, Excel, and more, and of all our national recognised courses, is the best programme for someone searching for a new career in bookkeeping. By allowing you to select two modules of your own choice, you can tailor this accounting technician diploma to your own personal career ambitions.
Our self-paced Accounting Technician Diploma is easy to fit alongside any other commitments you may have, and is based on pre-recorded lectures and an extensive workbook which our highly trained staff will guide you through. To make studying this Accounting Technician Diploma as convenient to you as possible, we encourage our students to study at a time that suits them best, in one of our training centres in London or Manchester, open daytimes, evenings and Saturdays.
Bookkeeping course
Nationally recognised as the masters of office skills training, our extensive range of individual book keeping courses allow our students to concentrate on subjects that will benefit them most in their careers. Feedback from our students has shown that our Sage bookkeeping course has been particularly helpful in not only securing a job but working competently once in your role. It aims to teach you essential skills employers seek for, in areas such as raising invoices and credit notes, customer and supplier control accounts and balance sheets.
For those entering the world of bookkeeping for the first time however, looking for a more basic overview, Beginners’ Bookkeeping, Module 1, explains all the basic tasks and processes involved in accounting, alongside all the relevant terminology. For those who complete this bookkeeping course and are searching to develop their marketability further, there are also Intermediate and Advanced modules to follow in this range.
For those looking for extra tuition in a specific area of accounting such as payroll, you have the opportunity to learn practical skills to assist you in your new career, such as how to use tax codes, and how to calculate tax and national insurance deduction. Or perhaps our Purchase or Sales Ledger courses are more relevant to your career plans.
All of our courses contain all the most relevant information you would expect from such a respected bookkeeping course, but we also strive to help you in your career development beyond the completion of your course. Because we help so many students graduate each year, we are experts in what employers are seeking for. We even have notices boards in our popular centres in London and Manchester displaying all the latest vacancies that may interest you.

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