Bookkeeping Stories Archive.
The whole family had saved up to give him the opportunity to come to London and take not just a bookkeeping course but a Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma course!
(Posted 12/12/11)
(Posted 12/12/11)
The problem with most bookkeeping courses is that they are too hard to understand and it is too difficult to apply the learning to the workplace. (Posted 10/11/11)
My wife spotted a name on Google that was familiar to her from years ago. It was Pitman Training in London’s High Holborn, one of the oldest names in vocational education and my wife recognised them as a long-standing and trustworthy name. (Posted 23/08/11)
If you want to "better yourself" by taking part-time evening bookkeeping courses, you should really consider Pitman Training in London (Notting Hill and High Holborn) and Manchester. (Posted 10/08/11)
Around mid-summer, we get a lot of people asking if we have any short bookkeeping courses they could complete during a week's leave, and Sage Line 50 courses are in particularly high demand. (Posted 02/08/11)
Despite having sent our AAT qualified financial controller on many bookkeeping courses and having paid for a number of Sage courses, we didn’t seem to be making any progress in terms of drilling down into the company’s financial data.
(Posted 07/07/11)
(Posted 07/07/11)
The only thing you have to remember is that you've got to work at getting your book-keeping qualification.
(Posted 16/11/10)
(Posted 16/11/10)
Having been turned down by a number of schools in my quest for glamorous study programmes, I got a job with an accountancy firm and they paid for me to take some basic bookkeeping courses. (Posted 15/09/10)
I didn't really fancy working but this girl really took my breath away so I decided to enrol on some bookkeeping courses alongside her so I could spend more time with her. (Posted 10/09/10)
But from a career perspective, it can be quite a quick route to get on the bookkeeping ladder although you will probably start off at the lower end of the pay scale. (Posted 07/09/10)
When I wanted to learn to be a bookkeeper, I was baffled by the huge array of bookkeeping courses on offer. (Posted 26/08/10)
If you’re working on career planning and considering bookkeeping courses, you really need to consider what you want to achieve. Are you looking for an entry level job or something more developmental?
(Posted 24/08/10)
Any manager or business owner would be mad to entrust someone who hadn’t done a recognised bookkeeping course with millions of pounds of money! (Posted 21/08/10)
Traditionally such a bookkeeping course would have been taken as an evening class at a local college or university but modern technology and advances in learning delivery methods mean that other routes are now available to students. (Posted 26/07/10)
Accounting professionals are paid considerably more than bookkeepers, to reflect their expertise and knowledge but it takes much longer to study to be an accountant than the 3-12 months required for the Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma. (Posted 22/07/10)
Today many firms look for students with a qualification such as a Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma, where they can deliver meaningful work from day one.
(Posted 01/03/10)
(Posted 01/03/10)
The starting point for such a voyage of discovery is to take a basic bookkeeping course. (Posted 01/03/10)
Accounting Technician Diploma programme at Pitman Training accepts students at all levels, from beginners to experienced bookkeepers and takes them step by step through a dozen course modules. (Posted 28/02/10)
It is perfectly possible to obtain an accountancy qualification by taking accounting short courses, such as Sage Line 50 at 24 study hours or Sage Payroll at 18 hours. (Posted 27/02/10)
I saw an advert in the paper for Pitman Training and they were offering an accounting technician bookkeeping course on a flexi-study basis. I called them and it turned out they had all kinds of bookkeeping and accountancy courses on offer. (Posted 26/02/10)
Anyone looking to train for a career in accountancy or bookkeeping must surely be overwhelmed by the choices available to them! (Posted 25/02/10)
Entering a career in bookkeeping can lead to a variety of opportunities for professional development, with plenty of qualifications on offer. (Posted 23/09/09)
Businesses are seeking accounts assistants and people who are in the early stages of studying bookkeeping courses (Posted 25/08/09)
Despite various pleas for the government to retain the rate at 15 per cent, it looks as though ministers will stick to their original plans to return VAT to 17.5 per cent on January 1st, 2010. (Posted 14/08/09)
Going from actor to accountant does not seem like the most natural career progression, but for one man, accounting courses in London were the start to a whole new role in life. (Posted 13/06/09)
With redundancies increasing due to the recession, many people are turning to self-employment, a trend which has been seen particularly in the bookkeeping profession. (Posted 13/06/09)
Malcolm Trotter, chief executive of the International Association of Bookkeepers (IAB), says people who are trained in accounting and finance are playing a vital role in helping firms, particularly small businesses, to emerge from the recession. (Posted 10/05/09)
A Pitman Training student reports on the reality of her first 3 weeks in the job at a small firm following her Accounting Technician Diploma bookkeeping course.
