ACCA FA1 Recording Financial Transactions

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About This Course

Our Introduction to Bookkeeping course is the ideal starting point for future business leaders, accountants and entrepreneurs. You don’t need any previous knowledge of accounting.

This course will help you:

Prepare to take the ACCA exam Recording Financial Transactions (FA1)
Learn about business transactions, the banking system and double entry bookkeeping
Prepare payroll and ledger accounts
Understand reconciliation and preparing the trial balance.

What you will learn

In this course you will learn about:

business transactions, the banking system and double-entry bookkeeping
payroll and ledger accounts
reconciliation and preparing the trial balance.

Learning Objectives

Our ACCA FA1 Recording Financial Transactions course is the ideal starting point for future business leaders, accountants and entrepreneurs. You don’t need any previous knowledge of accounting.
This course will help you:
Prepare to take the ACCA exam Recording Financial Transactions (FA1)
Learn about business transactions, the banking system and double entry bookkeeping
Prepare payroll and ledger accounts
Understand reconciliation and preparing the trial balance.
What you will learn
In this course you will learn about:
business transactions, the banking system and double-entry bookkeeping
payroll and ledger accounts
reconciliation and preparing the trial balance.

Material Includes

  • Online Study Materials
  • Quizzes
  • Questions and Answers

Requirements

  • Just good English and Mathematical Numeracy Skills preferably at Grade 12 in South Africa, O'Level in other countries
  • Registration with ACCA as a student (Final Assessment for this course is by Computer Based Examination)

Target Audience

  • Junior accounts clerk/bookkeeper in a financial and/or cost accounting role

Curriculum

Syllabus A: Types of business transactions and documentation

By the end of the topic the learner should be familiar with:
1. Types of business transaction
2. Types of business documentation
3. Process of recording business transactions within the accounting system

Syllabus B: Duality of transactions and the double entry system

By the end of this topic you should have gained the following:
1. Books of prime entry
2. Double entry system
3. The journal
4. Elements of the financial statements

Syllabus C: C Banking system and transactions

By the end of this topic, you will have learnt:
1. The banking process
2. Documentation

Syllabus D: Payroll

By the end of this topic, you will be able to learn how to process payroll transactions into the accounting system

Syllabus E: Ledger accounts

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:
1. Prepare ledger accounts
a) Enter transactions from the books of prime entry into the ledgers.
b) Record journal entries in the ledger accounts.
c) Balance and close off ledger accounts

Syllabus F: Cash and bank

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:
1. Maintain a cash book
2. Maintain a petty cash book

Syllabus G: Sales and credit transactions

By the end of this topic, you should know how to:
1. Record sales
2. Determine customer account balances and control accounts

Syllabus H: Purchases and credit transactions

By the end of this topic, you will have learnt how to:
1. Record purchases
2. Supplier balances and reconciliations

Syllabus I: Reconciliation

By the end of this topic you will have learnt:
1. Purpose of control accounts and reconciliation
2. Reconcile the cash book
3. Reconcile the receivables control account
4. Reconcile the payables control account

Syllabus J: Preparing the trial balance

By the end of this topic, you will have learnt how to:
1. Prepare the trial balance
2. Correcting errors

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This course has been very informative, I learnt to keep financial records.

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Material Includes

  • Online Study Materials
  • Quizzes
  • Questions and Answers

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