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Accounting

Course Code: SAL1
  • Level: 1
  • Qualification: Award
  • Awarding body: Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT)
  • Duration: Ten weeks
  • Course type: Part-time
  • Time of day: Daytime
  • When you'll study: Tuesdays, 9.00am - 12.00noon
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What's it all about?

Looking to get started with computerised accounting?

This introductory course is perfect for those new to the subject, offering the essential skills and
knowledge to transfer manual bookkeeping techniques to a computerised accounting system.
You’ll learn to work with various ledgers, making it ideal for anyone wanting to build confidence
and formalise their bookkeeping skills in a business setting.

Course information

This course will cover:

  • computerised accounting for business
  • sales and purchase ledger transactions
  • bank and petty cash management
  • sales, invoices and producing a trial balance.

There are no specific entry requirements for this course, however, it is recommended that you will already have basic skills in numeracy, information technology and literacy prior to enrolling on the course.

You will be assessed by controlled assessments/exams.

Upon successful completion you may progress to:

 

Please note fees are quoted for one year only.

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Future careers

What you could earn:

Chartered and Certified Accountants

£76,621.11

Potential salary

£20,082.71

Entry level salary

£42,280.03

Average salary

14

Annual openings in Plymouth

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