
Apply the principles of double entry bookkeeping from a sole proprietor's perspective, keeping personal and business affairs separate, treating capital as a proprietor's personal asset yet a business liability.
Learn the recording of transactions using double-entry conventions, with debits on the left and credits on the right, including plus, minus, and bracket notations for purchases, sales, and creditors.
Explore account groupings as broad headings for recording transactions. Provide examples: fixed assets, current assets, purchases, and expenses; current liabilities, sales, and income are created accounts.
Welcome to the ABACUS Auto Balance Accounting System Bookkeeping Course.
In less than an hour you will learn the simple rules and practical applications of bookkeeping that can be used to run either large or small businesses.
Following the course material provided as a downloadable PDF reference, we start with a brief outline of the principles of bookkeeping and will cover all the basics related to accounting and double entry bookkeeping.
With plenty of examples throughout the course, we will show you how the structure of a bookkeeping system works and you will be taught how to record transactions and draw up and read financial statements.
Also covered in this course are the different accounts and journals, profit and loss accounts, petty cash books, stock and stock control, balance sheets and if applicable to your country of business residence we cover the basics of value added tax.
We have provided an Excel spreadsheet that you can use for the given working example which you can test your knowledge with at the end of the course and we then go through the answers line by line
You can then apply these fundamental skills and successfully run any large or small real-world business.