Book Keeping

Book Keeping and Accounts

Many people have increased their income and business knowledge by acquiring a working knowledge of bookkeeping and accounts. Our colleagues at Woodgrove Tutorials offer certificated distance learning courses in bookkeeping & accounts at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels devised by Brian J Harford FCCA, a Chartered Certified Accountant.

Brian has fifteen years experience in teaching bookkeeping and accountancy on a part time basis at the bookkeeping and accounts faculty of the City of London's Guildhall University and twenty years practical experience as a Financial Accounts Manager in leading Financial Services Companies. Brian won the IAB Tutor of the year –‘ highly commended’ award at the Business Enterprise Awards 2005. This award was presented to Brian by Jan Leeming the former BBC news presenter at London 's Cafe Royal.

With Woodgrove Tutorials’ courses in bookkeeping and accounts you too can follow in their footsteps in your own time and in your own home.

These bookkeeping and accounts courses provide full personal tutorial support – please see the testimonial pages for comments from students who have been delighted with our bookkeeping and accounts courses.

With these bookkeeping and accounts courses you have the choice of either doing our own certificated courses in bookkeeping and accounts or obtaining a professional qualification from the International Association of Book-keepers (see our IAB page)

These courses guide you from the absolute first principals of bookkeeping right through to the more advanced techniques of Accountancy in the same easy to follow step by step learning approach.

The courses consist of nine lessons, which take you from the very first principals through to final accounts preparation.

At the end of each lesson there are questions which must be completed and submitted to the tutor.

The answers can be sent by post or E-Mail.

Your answers are marked, commented on and valuable personalised individual feedback is given.

Communications are always maintained throughout and your tutor is available to discuss individual needs.

Once marked, your answers are returned to you either by post or E-Mail together with a set of 'model' answers. In this way your progress is monitored, you can work at your own pace and build up a 'library' of model answers.

Beginners

The Bookkeeping and Accounts Basics Home Study Course is for absolute beginners, this step-by-step course will take you from absolute first principals through to final accounts in nine easy to follow lessons. The home study system allows you to work from home to quickly learn:

Intermediate

Background to the Course
Following the success of the Book-keeping & Accounts distance learning Course many students requested a more advanced Course written in the same style which they could use as a tool to enhance their personal development. As a result, the Intermediate Accounting Course was written on the same 'step by step' learning approach.

Level of knowledge assumed
The Intermediate Accounting Course assumes that the student has a sound grasp of double entry book-keeping and the preparation of financial statements for a sole trader business from a trial balance.
The Course assumes that the student has a desire to attain a broader overview of the financial operation of a business and learn how to monitor the progress of business financial operations.

Advanced

Following the success of the Book-Keeping and Accounts Basic Home Study Course many people requested a more advanced course written in the same style on which they could build their existing knowledge. As a result the Advanced course was written and is based on the same step by step learning approach.

Join the hundreds of delighted students who have successfully completed the course thereby improving their skill set and career development.

What Will You Learn?
The Advanced course assumes that the student has a sound grasp of Double Entry Book-keeping principles and the preparation of basic final accounts from the Trial Balance of a business. The course also assumes that the student has a desire to attain a broader overview of the financial affairs of different types of business entities.

When you enrol through us, you will receive a FREE copy of our informative "business start-up" video-DVD and CD “GOING 4 IT” normally costing £25.00