Pitman Training Accounting Technician Diploma

BELIEVE in YOURSELF and INVEST in YOUR FUTURE

Benefits:

• Equip you to start a new career
• The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace
• Personalised workbooks to use as a reference guide on completion of your training
• The opportunity to gain a Pitman Training Diploma that is recognised nationally and internationally by employers

Course Content:

Core Subjects

• Basic Book-keeping – gain a clear understanding of the basic principles of book-keeping.  Learn how to maintain a cash book, petty cash book and reconcile a bank statement
• Purchase Ledger – become proficient at maintaining a manual purchase ledger
• Sales Ledger – become proficient at maintaining a manual sales ledger
• Manual Payroll – learn to calculate wages and salaries using Inland Revenue tables, understand tax codes, Inland Revenue forms, and how to complete them.  Covers holiday pay, Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay
• Final Accounts I – learn the principles of double-entry book-keeping in order to maintain a nominal ledger and extract a preliminary trail balance
• Final Accounts II – learn how to extend the trial balance in order to prepare the final accounts of a business (profit and loss accounts and balance sheet)
• Sage Line 50 – convert your manual book-keeping skills to computerised accounts using the most popular software
• Sage Payroll – convert your manual payroll skills to computerised skills using this most popular program including Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay
• Microsoft Excel Proficient – introductory and intermediate spreadsheet skills to a good employable standard.  This will enable you to create a spreadsheet, entering text, numbers and formulas and creating charts
• Microsoft Excel Expert – learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables
• Numeric Data Entry – learn efficient use of the numeric keypad

Recommended Electives – choose one

Course Duration:

9 weeks full-time* (180 hours flexi study) *based on a 20 hour week

Our Guarantee:

Over 50,000 students per year take one of our courses.  Our unique training system has been proven to work with over 98% who complete achieving a pass.

To show how confident we are in our product we guarantee: 

1. To give you a no quibble, full refund should you not be 100% happy following your 1st session.
2. To allow you to re-sit the training and exam at no additional cost, should you not pass 1st time.
3. To allow you to come back at anytime after you’ve completed the course for a free refresher.  We understand that you frequently may learn a skill that you then find you don’t use for a while.