Accounts Assistant Training Course

Course Overview

As an accounts assistant, you are a supporting between the bookkeepers and accountants. Your support is instrumental in providing administrative help by undertaking a range of tasks. You will assist with compiling trial balances, maintaining financial records, invoicing, processing tax returns and identifying, processing and computing journals. Your calculations are important in preparing company accounts, filing and many other tasks.

Accounts Assistant training course provides you with all the important concepts and practical skills to apply and work as an Accounts Assistant or Finance Assistant. The contents cover everything from basic invoice recording and invoice generation, purchase, expenses, and sales receipts and working through VAT Return, VAT Reconciliations, uses of different VAT schemes and managing the year-end closings, different Payroll methodologies like setting up employees, processing payslips, maintaining statutory payments, submission of RTI and calculating deductions from pay that are learned in this payroll training course. We cover all the journals and trial balance adjustments in detail.

The use of different accounting software like SAGE, XERO, QuickBooks and MS Excel spreadsheets to record all these transactions and gain hands-on practical accounting training in a professional accountancy environment.

This course provides good working knowledge and practical experience on the different bookkeeping methodologies and practices essential to effectively record and store financial information on a daily basis. The course is designed to give you a thorough experience of Bookkeeping, Tax Returns, and Payroll accounting principles and you will be coached by our CPD Certified Accountancy professionals. Our unique approach of blending the important theoretical concepts and practical skills give you an enormous competitive advantage in your quest to get a job placement.

Suitable For

The course is suited for aspiring bookkeepers and anyone who wants to start a career in accounting.

• New entrants into the accounting sector
• Learners pursuing accounting qualification
• Candidates with overseas experience

Certification

• CPD Certificate
• Accountancy Practice Certificate
• IAB Certificate
• Xero Advisor Certificate

Course Content

• Sage 2017 v24
• XERO
• Quickbooks
• Capium
• Forbes
• IRIS
• Freshbooks
• VT Software
• Free Agent

(YOU CAN CHOOSE MORE THAN ONE SOFTWARE)

Industries Covered

The training is provided with the relevant industries listed below:

• Construction
• Wholesale
• Retail
• Dental Clinics
• Online Business
• IT
• Solicitor
• Medical
• Surgeries
• Architect & More

Skills You Will Gain

The students will acquire following set of skills after completing this Accounts Assistant Training Course.

Control Accounts

• Accounts Opening Balance Adjustments
• Trial Balance Analysis & Corrections
• Month & Year end Adjustments
• Depreciation, Wages Journals
• Control Accounts
• Clearing Suspense Account
• Adjusted Trial Balance
• Aged Debtor & Creditor Analysis
• Production of Year End Accounts

Bookkeeping

• Sales Day Book
• Purchase Day Book
• Credit Notes
• Debtor / Creditor Reconciliation
• Petty Cash Reconciliation
• Bank Reconciliation
• VAT Calculation
• VAT Adjustment

Payroll

• Employee Records
• Payments and Deduction
• Basic Pension Schemes
• Pay Elements & Company Reports
• Statutory Payments
• Generating Payslips
• FPS, EPS , RTI Submissions
• Setting up Starters & Leavers
• P32 and HMRC Submissions

Career Path

• Bookkeeper
• Financial Controller
• Junior Accountant Asst.
• Management Accountant
• Accounts Assistant
• Credit Controller
• Finance Manager
• Accounting Clerk
• Budget Analyst
• Payroll Administrator
• Payroll Clerk
• Assistant Controller

Work Placement Structure

After finishing your training, you will be given a chance of guaranteed work placement at our offices or at our external client’s offices. The duration is dependent upon the training course you have opted for with us.