Understanding the institutional framework around accounting
- Translating the activities, transactions and business flows of the company into figures.
- Understanding the company’s place in the overall economic cycle.
- Understanding the company’s economic cycles: operating, investment and financing cycles.
- Understanding accounting issues: a legal and fiscal requirement and an essential management tool.
- Distinguishing between financial accounting and cost accounting.
Hands-on work
Light-hearted quiz about your accounting knowledge.
Understanding accounting regulations
- Finding out about the sources of accounting law: national and international sources, Commercial Code and Tax Code.
- Understanding accounting standards: definitions, principles, contents, stakeholders, timetables, etc.
- Learning about accounting principles.
- Learning about the accounting documents: the balance sheet, the profit and loss account and the notes.
Hands-on work
Group discussion Group exchanges and discussions on accounting principles and their practical applications.
Understanding the company's balance sheet
- Moving from an asset-based perspective to the company’s balance sheet.
- Understanding the various entries in the balance sheet: fixed and current assets.
- Understanding the various entries in the balance sheet in relation to liabilities: equity, provisions for risks and char
- Understanding the financial cycle and the operating cycle.
- Understanding the various movements within the balance sheet.
- Understanding the presentation of a balance sheet. Knowing how to read it and use it.
Hands-on work
Hands-on work Recording of entries having an impact on the balance sheet.
Translating the company’s business activities into the profit and loss account
- Understanding the concept of the financial year period and divisions.
- Distinguishing the main types of expenditure and revenue: operating, financial and extraordinary.
- Understanding the presentation of a profit and loss account. Knowing how to read it and use it.
- Identifying the connection between the two main accounting statements: the profit and loss account and the balance sheet
Hands-on work
Hands-on work Recording of entries having an impact on the profit and loss account.
Identifying the main accounting concepts
- Understanding the role and the value of the National Accounting Code.
- Understanding how the National Accounting Code is structured: management accounts and balance sheet accounts, accounting
- Understanding the main rules for accounting codification and accounting function.
- Understanding the principle of double-entry accounting: the concepts of debit and credit.
Hands-on work
Hands-on work Produce simple accounting records.
Understanding how the accounting treatment of information is organized
- Understanding the importance of collecting supporting documents/receipts.
- Knowing how to encode and record the documents/receipts with the help of the general accounting system.
- Arranging the classification of supporting accounting documents (invoices, statements, etc.).
- Understanding the timescales for keeping accounting records.
- Understanding the role of the documents in the accounting chain: log-book, ledger, balance.
- Carrying out checks on the various accounting statements at the end of period.
Hands-on work
Hands-on work Group development of an efficient process of administrative classification.
Recording the main current entries
- Posting purchases and sales in the appropriate logs, posting trade discounts.
- Knowing how to record and administer VAT: scope of application, VAT on receipts and VAT on debits.
- Recording cash and banking transactions.
- Checking and justifying the accounts: classification and bank reconciliation.
Hands-on work
Hands-on work Recording of several accounting entries based on invoices, statements, etc.
Drawing up a summary case
- Recording various current transactions.
- Establishment of the ledger.
- Production of the pre-inventory balance.
- Constructing a profit and loss account.
- Constructing a trial balance-sheet
Hands-on work
Hands-on work Case study reviewing the main concepts addressed during the training and their practical accounting application: recording transactions, accounting entries, construction of balance sheet and profit and loss account.
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