Course Overview

This comprehensive course (formerly part of the Finance for non-Finance Manager series) has been designed to provide those working in management from a non-accountancy background with all of the tools they will need to master the essentials of company accounting and bookkeeping.

This course (in its entirety) aims to demystify the world of finance so that you can be confident in your own understanding of the information presented to you by company accountants.

This course will help you identify and interpret financial data, and other relevant information. In addition, where possible, the tutor will aim to use examples relevant to each attendee’s specific profession to provide maximum gain from the sessions.

Whilst this course is designed as three sessions covering complementary areas you are free to attend one or more sessions depending on your individual needs. If you attend all three sessions you are eligible for a discount of 10%.

Course Content

In this session you will learn to translate accounting terminology, learn the basics of bookkeeping and discover the essentials of financial accounting.

You will be given a thorough overview in:

• Accounting standards, terminology and audits
• Bookkeeping, including account preparation example
• Financial accounting
• Financial accounting theory

The course will also look at a number of other relevant topics that non-financial managers should be aware of.

Course Benefits

This course is aimed at those wishing to improve their knowledge of basic accounting and understand the underlying principles of management accounting and budgeting.

The course has been developed for the GTA University Centre and focuses on both the finance and commercial sector. At the end of the course you will have a wider knowledge of the types of financial data in a business and how best to interpret them.

Next Steps

If you would like to book a place on this course please click on the ‘Book Course’ button to the right of this page and login or register for a user account to complete your booking(s). Any queries please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected] or call us on 01481 224570.

If no date is scheduled for this course at the present time please click on the ‘Register Interest’ button and login or register for a user account so that we can add you to our course interest register. This register allows us to contact our tutors and finalise dates for a course as soon as we have a few people who have expressed their interest, so the more delegates who register their interest, the sooner we can schedule a particular course.