University of the Witwatersrand

Basic Business Accounting

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Overview

Accounting savvy is vital to ensure a business is on-track to being profitable, with important money milestones being set and met. Whether you’re a business owner, bookkeeper, financial clerk, in the finance department or a manager with growing exposure to your business’s books, the Basic Business Accounting online short course is ideal for anyone who wants a boost in money management skills. At the end of 10 weeks, you’ll be in love with ledgers, a master of the accounting equation, and aptly able to construct and apply financial statements.

Curriculum

Module 1: Introduction to business accounting
Module 2: The cash book
Module 3: The debtor’s ledger
Module 4: The creditor’s ledger
Module 5: Other ledgers.
Module 6: Application of the accounting equation
Module 7: Practical construction of financial statements
Module 8: Application of financial statements

Outcomes

Master accounting terms and principles as well as role-players and business entities
Understand cash book receipts, payments tax and bank reconciliations, and debtors and creditors ledger and reconciliations
Apply the accounting equation to the formulation of trial balances and statements
Interpret and extract valuable information from financial reports and business accounting statements

How will you learn?

Module 1: Introduction to business accounting
Module 2: The cash book
Module 3: The debtor’s ledger
Module 4: The creditor’s ledger
Module 5: Other ledgers.
Module 6: Application of the accounting equation
Module 7: Practical construction of financial statements
Module 8: Application of financial statements

What will you achieve?

Master accounting terms and principles as well as role-players and business entities
Understand cash book receipts, payments tax and bank reconciliations, and debtors and creditors ledger and reconciliations
Apply the accounting equation to the formulation of trial balances and statements
Interpret and extract valuable information from financial reports and business accounting statements

How will you learn?

Module 1: Introduction to business accounting
Module 2: The cash book
Module 3: The debtor’s ledger
Module 4: The creditor’s ledger
Module 5: Other ledgers.
Module 6: Application of the accounting equation
Module 7: Practical construction of financial statements
Module 8: Application of financial statements

What will you achieve?

Master accounting terms and principles as well as role-players and business entities
Understand cash book receipts, payments tax and bank reconciliations, and debtors and creditors ledger and reconciliations
Apply the accounting equation to the formulation of trial balances and statements
Interpret and extract valuable information from financial reports and business accounting statements

Format:

Certified Online Short Course

Duration:

10 days

Hours per week

5 to 7 hours

Breakdown

8 weeks consecutive online lectures, one exam in week 10

Certification:

Certificate of Competence

Language

English

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Ms. Odette Ramsingh

(Human resources and personal mastery)

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Ms. Odette Ramsingh

(Human resources and personal mastery)

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