Saturday 3 October 2009

Why choose Accounting and Finance?

This course provides a range of skills which are useful for many people but particularly valuable if you are interested in a career in finance or would like to run your own business. If choosing this course, you should have a liking for numbers, as the work involves calculations and logical thinking.


Whats studied in the course?
The course provides an introduction to procedures used in accounting and develops the skills required to prepare a variety of accounting statements.

There are three main elements in this course:

  • Handling Information
  • Knowledge and Understanding
  • Practical Abilities.

You to acquire these skills to:

  • preparing a personal cash budget
  • recording purchases and sales stock in a firm's ledger
  • calculating a firm's profit and loss
  • preparing the accounts of a club
  • preparing the Balance Sheet of a large company
  • partnership accounts and ratio analysis
  • how accounting procedures are used in commerce and industry.