Bookkeeping to Trial balance courses in 2011.

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Update your skills and launch a career that will make you count.

The Center for Management Development will once again present the popular BOOKKEEPING AND ACCOUNTING TO TRIAL BALANCE COURSE. 

Qualified bookkeepers are always in demand and this course provides the ideal foundation for persons who wish to extend and consolidate their bookkeeping skills, start a career in Bookkeeping or even make a mid-career change. 

If you operate a small business or are intending to set one up, completing the Bookkeeping Course will ensure that you know how to manage your finances properly.

COURSE CONTENT:
•    Cash Books, Cash Flow Analysis and Banking Issues.
•    Credit Sales, Credit Purchases and Petty Cash.
•    General Ledger, General Journal and Trial Balances.
•    Interim Financial Reports and Departmental Accounts.
•    Debtors and Creditors Ledgers, Control Ratios and Bad Debts.
•    Vat Reconciliations and Returns.
•    Stock Registers, Depreciation Methods, Acquisition and Disposal of Fixed Assets and Leasing.
•    Closing of Books at the year-end.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
•    Realistic – trainees actually keep a set of books while attending the course.
•    Step-by-step testing and auditing that ensures that trainees are competent before 
     proceeding to the next stage of the course.
•    All tasks are completed using the VAT system so that trainees are competent in VAT
     procedures from a practical point of view.

CERTIFICATION:
Trainees who complete the course successfully qualify to the Trial Balance level of competency and receive a certificate of competency.

COURSE VENUES, DURATION AND CLASS TIMES:
Part-time course: Rhodes High School, Montreal Avenue, Little Mowbray, for 12 sessions from 09h00 to 12h00 on Saturday mornings.
Weekday morning course: 15 Lancaster Road, Mowbray for fifteen sessions from 09h00 to 12h00 on Monday and Thursday mornings for seven weeks.

Course fees include a comprehensive course manual and all stationery.
 
BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTING TRAINING
to the TRIAL BALANCE and FINANCIAL STATEMENTS levels of competency

A learning programme for persons wanting to achieve competence in Bookkeeping in order to enhance job prospects, improve job performance, appreciate financial information or control accounting staff.

Course Features:

1.    Job Focused : The course comprehensively covers all the key bookkeeping responsibilities
       required of this essential business function.
2.    Learner Directed : The course material is arranged so that trainees can determine their own 
       level of competence in each particular skill or area of knowledge and where necessary, repeat
       these sections of the course until they achieve competence.
3.    Training Time : The course has been carefully planned and tested over 15 years to enable
       trainees to achieve a high level of competence in the minimum time possible.
4.    Practical : Trainees are required to keep a set of books and to demonstrate their competence
       in the various tasks in a job-like setting.

Designed by: Denis Jefferies, B.A., M.B.A., Professional Accountant (S.A.)

How Trainees Learn:

A feature of the course is that trainees keep a set of books enabling them to practise the various bookkeeping techniques and systems that are interrelated and interdependent in the keeping of an organisation’s books.  Trainees therefore acquire valuable and practical experience in the many bookkeeping tasks required of a bookkeeper to the Trial Balance level of competency.  If appropriate, trainees may proceed further by extracting and compiling the Financial Statements as would be required by a bookkeeper to the Financial Statements level of competency.  The emphasis at all times is on the knowledge and skills required of a bookkeeper in the workplace.  At the end of each section trainees complete a revision exercise thereby enabling them to monitor their own progress and to get individual feedback to any problem areas highlighted by the revision exercise.

Trainee Evaluation:

Throughout the course an instructor closely supervises each trainee’s work and regular testing is done as the trainee proceeds through the course.  Deficiencies highlighted by the tests enable the trainees to focus on any weaknesses in their bookkeeping knowledge and skills and to rectify these deficiencies.  At the same time each trainee’s books are regularly audited throughout the course to ensure that they meet the required standard.

Certification – Trainees can qualify to the following levels of competency: -

1.    Trial Balance level of competency.
2.    Financial Statements level of competency.

Should trainees wish to acquire national or international certification, they may register for and write examinations of a number of organisations, which act as examining bodies.  Trainees interested in or requiring further information on any of these organisations should apply in the first instance to the Center for Management Development.

CENTER FOR MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT

The Center for Management Development is a management-training consultancy with a primary focus on financial management.  Established in 1983, to date is has trained more than 10 000 persons through public and in-house training programmes.  The centre’s philosophy is to work closely with clients, both company and individuals alike to provide a personalised service of a very high quality.

To find out when the next courses are scheduled in cape Town or Somerset West,  please email us and we will email you the whole course schedule for 2011. Note the price is R3030 for the 14 week course eith on Saturday mornings or on Mon/Thurs weekdays from 9am to 12 noon ish.

Course Venue:   Little Mowbray, Cape Town
Course Times:    Starting at 9am on the above dates

NOTE: These courses are only available in Cape Town, South africa