Accounting for Non-Accountants

Overview:

Accountancy for non-accountants gives you a basic understanding of accountancy, allowing you to gain an insight into understanding company accounts.

By enrolling in this course, you’ll gain an overview of key financial and accounting issues relating to land, property and construction. You'll get a refresher and an introduction to the world of company accounts, whilst developing an understanding of the role of accounting, financial accounting, financial reporting and management accounting.

Using an interactive setting, you will work in groups and gain valuable practice in using key financial ratios to understand the performance of a selection of local property/construction companies in case studies.

What you'll experience:

On this short course you'll:

• discuss and understand the context and purpose of financial and management accounting

• examine the financial statements, including the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts

• establish an understanding of account classification

• practice recording transactions

• identify key financial statement ratios

• analyse and interpret company accounts using property and construction case studies