AAT Level 2: Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping

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The units of this level are:

• Bookkeeping Transactions
• Bookkeeping Controls

Modules

Bookkeeping Transactions

• This unit introduces students to the double-entry bookkeeping system and the associated documents and processes.
• This unit provides students with the skills necessary to operate a manual
  double-entry bookkeeping system and provides a strong foundation for progression to more advanced manual and computerised activities.
• The cash book and petty cash book are also covered in this uni

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand financial transactions within a bookkeeping system
2. Process customer transactions
3. Process supplier transactions
4. Process receipts and payments
5. Process transactions through the ledgers to the trial balance

Bookkeeping Controls

• This unit is about control accounts, journals and methods of payment.
• This unit covers more complex Foundation level bookkeeping procedures.
• Students will develop the ability to prepare the value added tax (VAT) control account as well as the sales and purchases ledger control accounts, including reconciliation with the sales and purchases ledgers.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand payment methods
2. Understand controls in a bookkeeping system
3. Use control accounts
4. Use the journal
5. Reconcile a bank statement with the cash book

• This course is aimed at anybody wanting an accounting qualification or aspiring to become an accountant.
• The AAT qualification is designed to give you a solid base of accounting principles and skills to build on throughout your career.
  
  
• The qualification is right up-to-date and a great way to stand out in your company or the job market.
  
  
• You may see it as a way of entering the world of accountancy and finance, in the whole range of professions from bookkeeper to financial or management accountant or auditor.
  
  
• You may want to learn more about the theories underpinning your current job role.
  
  
• You may see it as an invaluable aid to career progression.
  
  
• You may have many years’ financial experience and now want a formal qualification.

Be able to speak English and comfortable with basic maths with a passion for booking and accounts.

The Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping can lead to employment as:

• Clerical Assistant
• Trainee Bookkeeper
• Accounts Clerk
• Finance Assistant
• Accounts Administrator