Description

Course Overview:

Maintaining accounting and financial records is one of the most basic yet critical functions of a good business. This course covers the fundamentals of book-keeping for those who wish to pursue it as a career, as well as for entrepreneurs who want to manage their own books in a more professional manner.

Course Objectives

Any conventional accounting student who goes through this course must be the end of the study be able to;

• Correctly interpret financial information, correctly classify it and know which accounts they affect.
• Visualize the effects of all these accounting entries to the overall financial statement.
• Understand how to operate the double entry concept of accounting and how this assists to ensure that transactions are correctly classified and well shown in the financial statements.

Course Outline:

• Conceptual framework of accounting.
• Accounting as an information system.
• Users of financial information.
• Recording financial information and Double entry treatment of transactions.
• Preparation of Financial statements
• Ethics in reporting financial information.

Exercises:

After they have read the material for each unit, students are expected to test their own Learning by completing some relevant exercises and tasks.

Assignments:

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit three assignments.

Training format:

All materials are made available through our online learning platform

• Language: English and French