This 2 morning x 2 hours (4 hours in total) is aimed at individuals with little to no knowledge or awareness of bookkeeping, financial language and concepts.  It is a basic small business accounts programme.  It may be suitable for individuals wishing to start a business or individuals running their own business, which is less than three years old

The principal objective is to create awareness around bookkeeping and associated financial matters.  This will include explanation around books and records which must be maintained by business owners; financial concepts and language including income; expenditure; assets; liabilities; debtors / creditors; profit & loss account and balance sheet (not meant to be exhaustive). 

A secondary objective of the programme is to help people to become more aware of how bookkeeping and financial concepts ‘tie in’ with other business areas including areas of taxation and costing to name but two. 

Course Content:

(a)   Familiarising participants with primary books of account and underlying records that need to be maintained.

(b)   Explanation on different reports that a business can generate to help manage operating and financial matters better.

(c)   Awareness of terms like revenue; expenditure; profit & loss account; assets and liabilities within a balance sheet; tax returns … and how these terms relate to each other.

Dates:

Tuesday 18^th May & Wednesday 19^th May – from 10 am – 12 pm, by Zoom. 

Training provided by John Dempsey.