Bookkeeping Courses | Bookkeepers Courses

Bookkeeping courses are an essential part of any business and are essential if you want to ensure that you are running your business efficiently or also if you want to run your own bookkeeping business in the future. Our bookkeeping courses provide you with a step by step guide to accounting for everyone. The bookkeeping courses will guide you from the basic first principles of bookkeeping, which are essential to understanding the processes, all the way through to the much more complex accountancy techniques.

Our bookkeeping courses are offered at three different levels, so that we can be sure that we can teach everyone, no matter what their skill ability the principles of bookkeeping and accounting.

The first is the ICB Level I Certificate in Basic bookkeeping course, at which you will learn the principles of bookkeeping including; how to create a system for recording cash transactions, how to record credit transactions, trial balances and much more.

The second is our ICB Level II bookkeeping course; at this level we assume that you will have a desire to attain a much greater overview of businesses financial operation. You will study, bank reconciliations, sales and purchase ledger control accounts, VAT Returns, balance sheets and many other essential aspects of accounting and bookkeeping.

The third level is the ICB Level 3 Diploma in bookkeeping; this course is for a student who has an aspiration to attain an even broader overview of financial affairs. In this course you will learn about, accounting for limited companies, methods of stock control, preparing accounts from incomplete records as well as many other important aspects of bookkeeping at an advanced level.

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It is absolutely essential to first attain the core bookkeeping skills manually and THEN you can meaningfully apply technology to these skills in the form of our ICB Level II Certificate in Bookkeeping Sage accounting software package (see below testimonial)

“I am now freelancing at a firm of Chartered Accountants - the manual bookkeeping is definitely the best way to develop a full understanding of the processes involved in accounting. I have fared much better than people who only understand computerised bookkeeping” Gerald Payne

In the words of Dr Peter Marshall in his ICB accredited book:

“Its no good trying to go straight to computerised bookkeeping and missing out the learning of manual bookkeeping. Once problems occur in the Accounts, a person who has only learned how to input data will be stumped as Employers will always require their staff to fully understand the principles and theory of bookkeeping.”

Having completing the ICB Level I and II Manual Bookkeeping Courses then you will progress to the ICB Level II Computerised Course. Success in these will lead you to Associate membership of the ICB allowing you to put the prestigious letters AICB after your name. Also you will have acquired an extremely good practical knowledge of using Sage accounting software. SAGE is widely acknowledged as a leading provider of accounting software packages.

Please see AICB Career Path for details of our ICB Career Path Package which includes the Level II Certificate in Computerised Bookkeeping using Sage software.

Sitting ICB exams

We are delighted to tell you that the Institute has put you in charge! When you are ready to take your manual bookkeeping examination you can choose exactly when and where you wish to take it, booking yourself in at one of our 5,200 venues, in any week of the year.

The ICB has pioneered the delivery of on-demand examinations so that gaining a bookkeeping qualification fits in with your busy schedule.

You tell the ICB when and where your examination is. The ICB examinations are ‘on demand’ and you choose a date and time convenient to you and according to availability at your nominated Centre.

Any student who has successfully completed the Level I examination will be able to book in for the Level II. Bookings for the Level III can only be accepted if the Level I and both Level II examinations have been passed.