Many people are intimidated by accounting, or they try to avoid spending any more time than necessary in the company of financial statements. Reality is that success in business is dependent on your ability to comfortably relate to financial information that reflects the lifeblood of a company. If you run your own business you must know exactly what the status is of your financial health in order for the business to survive and flourish. If you set your sights on a corporate career, then with additional responsibilities most promotions will make it increasingly important that you are well versed in accounting and finance.
You need a solid foundation in financial accounting to understand how, what, and where business transactions are recorded in an accounting system. The context for this course is of a small- to medium-business both to illustrate the concepts and to provide examples that are more comprehensive for an understanding of what is involved in managing financial information.
This course delivers 3 parts dealing with:
Our basic Payroll Accounting component provides a solid understanding of what payroll tasks must be performed, and how this fits in with the other accounting tasks. Usually companies outsource payroll to a specialized service provider – what we focus on is your ability to review those services, and in the course of business planning to make sure you get the correct results by computing the payroll costs using the CRA website payroll calculator. A good understanding of payroll is useful to setup accounting systems (especially automated systems) to make sure all required processes are initialized. Most accounting software provides a mechanism to update relevant tax and remittance tables so that you can simply automate much of the process (and use the CRA website as part of your QA verification that your automation results are correct).
Introduction to Accounting Principles
Bookkeeping Principles
Financial Accounting
This course is currently available in a classroom setting (public or company private) with approximately 60 contact hours.
This course offers a certificate of completion that identifies the course, the student, and a brief description of the course. To receive a certificate the student must have attended at least 80% of the course sessions. This personalized certificate is forwarded to the student by Email.
This course includes a notebook in PDF format that provides the minimum knowledge the student must master in order to obtain the certificate. In the notebook you will find references to other study materials. Students receive the notebook by Email when their registration is confirmed.
An overview of this study program can be downloaded from the website by right-clicking on the program link on the enquiry page.
A list of upcoming training sessions can be downloaded from the website by right-clicking on the schedule link on the enquiry page.
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