Effective Bookkeeping and Payroll

The Bookkeeping and Payroll course prepares the candidates to become successful bookkeepers and acquire the necessary knowledge and understanding needed to create an effective and reliable bookkeeping system. The course gives the fresh graduates and inexperienced professionals a career boost and enhances their accounting and bookkeeping skills. The course helps the candidates to prove to employers that they can provide office accounting, bookkeeping and payroll management duties in an effective and efficient manner.

A bookkeeper keeps business financial records and performs basic and essential accounting tasks. The course provides an essential learning experience to the candidates to perform the basic bookkeeping and payroll management tasks in an effective and efficient manner. The course provides a launching platform to the candidates for a bright career in financial accounting, bookkeeping or payroll management.

After successfully completing this course, the students shall be able to:

• Learn about the generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)

• Learn and implement internal controls

• Maintain subsidiary ledgers and special journals

• Reconcile accounts

• Correct wrong amounts and wrong accounts by reverse entries

• Perform sales tax calculations

• Setup a yearly budgeting plan

• Understand accounting for merchandising

• Perform accounting for cash

• Manage payroll system

The course is intended for:

• Small and medium business owners

• Bookkeepers and accountants

• Payroll management staff

• Financial auditors

• Business decision makers

The course has no formal pre-requisites. However, the basic knowledge of accounting fundamentals is highly recommended.