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- Status
- Principal course
- Subject
- Accounting
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 45 guided learning hours — typically eight days intensive or ten weeks part time
- Delivery
- Live online, or on site for groups
- Options
- Individual, group or corporate
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion · eligible for the academic pathway
- Availability
- Worldwide — Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, or in the UK
- Study options
- Online from your own country, or in person in the UK
- Course fee
- Quoted on request
Course overview
This programme takes learners who can already keep a ledger and teaches them to produce a complete set of financial statements to a professional standard. The emphasis is on the judgements behind the numbers: revenue recognition, inventory valuation, provisions, and the disclosure decisions that separate a compliant set of accounts from a merely arithmetically correct one. International Financial Reporting Standards provide the framework throughout, which is the reporting language used by most large employers across the Gulf.
Who this course is for
- Accountants and accounts assistants preparing statutory accounts
- Finance staff moving from bookkeeping into reporting
- Analysts who must read and challenge financial statements
- Learners who have completed Accounting Fundamentals
Learning objectives
By the end of the programme learners will be able to:
- Prepare a full set of financial statements from a trial balance
- Apply the IFRS conceptual framework to recognition and measurement decisions
- Account for non-current assets, inventory, provisions and accruals correctly
- Prepare a statement of cash flows using the indirect method
- Interpret financial statements using ratio analysis