AAT Level 2: Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping
Online based course with interactive live tutor support
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Overview
Obtain an outstanding professional accountancy qualification to gain employment or promotion within the finance and accounting industry. Most students start at this level with no or only limited accounts knowledge.
Why study Distance Learning Plus - Live Online with McArthur Morgan?
- Qualify within 2 months compared to traditional distance learning courses
- Completion rates are better than traditional distance learning courses - we regularly achieve 100% pass rates
- Obtain better grades (merits and distinctions) compared to traditional distance learning courses
- Total wrap around care from start to finish from our team of tutors and customer support staff alike
- We are a dedicated AAT Training provider - this makes us specialists at delivering the AAT qualification.
- Enjoy the benefits of a structured classroom course to ensure focus on your studies to keep on track
- Includes all the pre-recorded materials from our 'On Demand' Online distance learning course together with full access to the live recordings as well
- Networking opportunities with your peer group and with McArthurMorgan clients
- Full range of study materials delivered to your home or office
- Full tutor support up to 10pm, 7 days a week.
- All our tutorials are delivered by highly experienced, fully qualified tutors ensuring you gain a thorough understanding of how accountancy and taxation works in the real world, not just to pass the AAT exam.
- Zero travel time and zero travel costs getting to and from a physical classroom
The Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping can lead to employment as:
- Clerical Assistant
- Trainee Bookkeeper
- Accounts Clerk
- Finance Assistant
- Accounts Administrator
Qualification
AAT Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping - Level 2
Description
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
- Understand financial transactions within a bookkeeping system
- Process customer transactions
- Process supplier transactions
- Process receipts and payments
- 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
- Understand payment methods
- Understand controls in a bookkeeping system
- Use control accounts
- Use the journal
- Reconcile a bank statement with the cash book
Who is this course for?
- 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.
Requirements
Be able to speak English and comfortable with basic maths.
Career path
The Foundation Certificate in Bookkeeping can lead to employment as:
- Clerical Assistant
- Trainee Bookkeeper
- Accounts Clerk
- Finance Assistant
- Accounts Administrator
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