| Certificate in Accounting – Level 4 | 1 | AC010 | Business Entrepreneur
Develops the understanding of Entrepreneurship/Managing your Business to acquire competence in the exercise of the occupation and to carry out the functions, tasks and activities of the occupation at the level required for entry into the job market. Integrates an understanding of the specific context of the selected occupation; and provide for job mobility by helping acquire career-management skills.
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| AC011 | Business Communication Skills
Develops writing, reading, listening, speaking, researching, and critical thinking. The topics are designed to provide skills to assist those in the workplace with their assigned tasks and also for those who continue with further studies, they should be able to cope with writing good essays, plan and carry out good researches on projects and assignments, and be able to write good reports and make good presentations.
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| AC011 | Accounting Principles 1
A compulsory course for all students focuses on both trading and service businesses and it covers the accounting cycle from source documents to final reports; and analysis and interpretation. It also provides the student with the knowledge of accounting concepts and conventions. It will also cover the basic structure of accounting Systems of Cash, Payroll and EDP systems.
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| AC014 | Business Environment
Introduces the world of work and developing their knowledge and skills to cope and maintain a healthy environment at work. The course covers knowledge of workplace documents such as the Duty Statements and their purpose, the reciprocal nature, rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and the importance of their cooperation in the workplace. It also covers the function, organisational structure, goals and objectives of both public and private organisations. It covers principles and implementation of equal opportunity and anti-discrimination as they apply to the workplace, and the ongoing changes that can occur in the workplace.
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| AC012 | Thinking and Learning Skills
Introduces creativity and imagining, problem solving, knowledge, critical thinking, accessing and analyzing information, Agility and Adaptability, Handling critics, innovation and exploration and learner autonomy. Through critical analysis of research on higher education as well as reflection upon one’s own teaching experience, participants will engage in their own professional development. This course is also designed for individuals with all level of teaching experience who wish to further develop their teaching skills and continue on their studies locally and abroad. While each seminar has its own focus relating to a pertinent topic in higher education, these topics combined form the basis of effective teaching skills recognized as being critical for teaching in lower and higher education.
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| 2 | AC022 | Computerized Accounting
Introduces and uses an integrated computerized software called Elite Two (Version 04) to establish and update the general ledger. It will also introduce and use MYOB (Version 12) an integrated software package to establish and update the account receivable, account payable, and stock ledgers. The MYOB fixed asset register package will also handle all aspects of accounting for fixed assets on computer. The MYOB Payroll Management software will also be used to show the features of a computerized payroll package producing accounting data and reports.
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| AC023 | Accounting Principles 2
Focuses on both trading and service businesses and it covers the accounting knowledge and skills for subsystem other than cash, their basic structure, processes and the internal controls that are applied to them as well as the role of the internal and external auditor. It looks at various subsystems such as sales, accounts receivable, purchase, accounts payable, non-current assets, and stock. Then it will cover internal and external audit issues including ethics, operational reviews and non-profit organisations. In the section of inventories, physical and perpetual systems are covered along with retail inventory and disclosure requirements according to the accounting standards.
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| AC025 | Financial Accounting Applications
Designs to cover analysis and interpretation of financial data for management decision-making purposes. It looks at alternative accounting systems adopted by non-profit organisations and businesses that do not maintain double entry records. It also covers accounting for partnerships which includes manner of formation, introduction of a new partner, partnership profit & loss and appropriation, operation and partnership dissolution in contrasted with joint ventures. It looks also into accounting for primary producers (grazing enterprises & agricultural enterprises), consignments, leases and investment registers. Accounting for consignments (books of the consignee and the consignor) at an introductory level. Accounting for leases covers the treatment of both operation and financing leases from the point of view of the lessee, and also disclosure requirements of leases of a company. Investment registers examine the preparation of an investment register where a company has invested in another business.
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| AC026 | Business Mathematics
Provides students with the skills (or refreshing of existing skills) in calculation and solving of common commercial problems involving percentages, profit & loss, and taxation, calculating of simple and compound interest, present and future value annuities using both formulas and financial tables. It will also look into plotting and drawing of graphs for costs and income which will be useful for business decision making.
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