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Finance, Accounting & Tax

Trust and Company Bookkeeping - Level 1

Course details

Start Date

1 May 2024

CPD Points

7

Cost

£355

Length

Full day (09:00-17:00)

Location

GTA University Centre

Course Overview

The session gives trust administrators and those new to client accounting a sound grasp of basic trust and company accounting; it will ensure that you understand debits and credits and the basics of preparing simple financial statements.

Course Content

  • Purpose of trust accounts
  • Different types of trusts
  • Trust accounts
  • Double entry
  • Ledger accounting and ‘T' accounts
  • The trial balance
  • Accounting for investments
  • Accruals and prepayments
  • Life interest trusts
  • Limited company accounts

Course Benefits

The objective of the trust and company bookkeeping course is to improve both knowledge and application of basic trust accounting. The course will aim to incorporate key transactions that will be undertaken by trust accounting and trust administration staff.

On completion of the course you will have a greater understanding of double entry and general trust accounting. You will also be more confident and aware of any transactions that they are processing.

In addition, you will have gained awareness of basic trust accounts and be able to produce a working set of financial statements.

This course would be of particular benefit to trust administrators and those studying either the STEP Foundation or The Chartered Governance Institute IFA qualifications.

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 244570.

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.

Course Tutor

  • Victoria Le Poidevin

    Vicky Le Poidevin FCA, Dip IoD regularly provides interactive and engaging training sessions to a wide range of financial services and commercial delegates. Vicky continually adapts her training style to suit the variety of delegates that attend her courses, and she actively enjoys running training for all levels of experience including parties at the beginning of their career, directors looking to continually enhance their skills and all parties in between looking to upskill or get ahead in their career.

    Vicky's training is under pinned by practical, real-life examples that leverage her 20 plus years' experience in the financial services sector. Vicky believes that delegates learn by doing, so she tries to include practical exercises into her courses to ensure the learning experience remains interesting, relevant, and engaging. As well as running numerous training courses, Vicky is a management consultant and has worked with numerous businesses on multiple projects, giving her a unique knowledge and experience to enrich her training. Vicky's generalist financial services experience also includes 10 plus years of auditing and accounting with a big four firm /regional firm and holding senior roles in both the Fund and Trust sector.

Testimonials

  • Course tutor smiled all through and made the course look extremely easy to understand. I enjoyed all aspect of it and I can boldly prepare a Financial Statement with little or no supervision.

    Augustine Apinoko

  • Yes, I found the course super useful and really enjoyed it

    Carla C

Course tutor smiled all through and made the course look extremely easy to understand. I enjoyed all aspect of it and I can boldly prepare a Financial Statement with little or no supervision.

Augustine Apinoko

Yes, I found the course super useful and really enjoyed it

Carla C

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