What you’ll achieve

After completing the course, delegates will have learned:

• to understand financial accounting and the roles of bookkeepers and accountants
• to understand the principles of double-entry bookkeeping and how to apply them
• how to record and calculate VAT
• to understand what journals are and their purpose
• to explain the purpose of the suspense account and how to clear it
• to understand the importance of finance skills to enable your business to operate more efficiently
• to make better business decisions based on finances
• confidence and effectiveness when discussing finances to increase efficiency and profit
• to have more informed conversations with finance colleagues to remove the risk of miscommunication or misunderstanding
• to provide more insightful reports based on financials.