Accounting & Book Keeping Certificate Course

Certificate in Accounting and Bookkeeping Studies

Capacity Africa Institute is pleased to announce a Certificate Course in Accounting and Bookkeeping Online and Distance Learning Course.

Start date: 1st June 2019.

Overall Course Overview:

In running an enterprise, everyday decisions are made. All these decisions made have a financial effect either positively/favorably or negatively/adversely. Accounting and book keeping are at the core of ensuring that this information is captured systematically at source and recorded. To effectively do this, the personnel required to the same must be equipped with the correct knowledge and skills to ensure that all the information captured is as per generally accepted accounting standards, required accounting standards and as per the local regulatory environment.

Course Objectives

Any conventional accounting student who goes through this course must bat the end of the study be able to correctly interpret financial information, correctly classify it and know which accounts they affect. They should also visualize the effects of all these accounting entries to the overall financial statement.
In addition, they should understand how to operate the double entry concept of accounting and how this assists to ensure that transactions are correctly classified and well shown in the financial statements.

Course Organizers:
Capacity Africa Institute (www.capacityafrica.com) is an organization that was founded in 1999 with the objective of building capacity for development professionals to enhance effective delivery of development services in Africa. The organization runs training programmes in Kenya, Somalia, Chad , Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo and South Sudan training over 4000 development workers in the last ten years. We have presented hands - on training to over 200 International organizations among them Action Aid , Unicef , Undp , UN Women, OSIEA, Population Services International, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, Federation of Women Lawyers-FIDA, Amref, Danish Deming Group, Pact World, Oxfam, War Child, World Relief, Tear Fund, Shell International, Path, Techno serve, Norwegian People’s Aid, One Love One World, Freedom to Create, Center for British Teachers, JRS Sudan, Christian Mission Aid, Sudanese Red Cross, Mercy Corps International, ADRA South Sudan Sector Programme among others.

Who Should Participate?

Actors in international development (the state, international organizations, multinational
corporations, and civil society organizations)
Course Outline:

  1. Conceptual framework of accounting.
  2. Accounting as an information system.
  3. Users of financial information.
  4. Recording financial information and Double entry treatment of transactions.
  5. Preparation of Financial statements
  6. Ethics in reporting financial information.

Training Format:
• All materials are made available through Online or Distance Learning approaches
• Approximately 5-6 hours time commitment of your time per week
• At your own time schedule, no live participation needed
• Weekly feedback from committed instructors
• Participants are expected to submit weekly assignments electronically to earn certificate of completion

Computing Requirements:

Participants will need to use email, upload and download word docs,
PowerPoint files and PDFs, and post on the discussion board or send
assignments by email. If you do not have internet speed sufficient
to download materials, an offline DVD or hard copies course may be the
right alternative for you.
Materials Provided:
Online delivery of curriculum materials, exercises and templates.
Exercises:
After they have read the material for each unit, students are expected to test their own Learning by completing some relevant exercises and tasks.
Assignments:
In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit three assignments.
The materials for each unit, students are expected to test their own Learning by completing some relevant exercises and tasks.
Assignments:
In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit three assignments.

DURATION AND COURSE LOAD: 8 Weeks - 8 to 10 hours per week
PARTICIPANTS: Development Professionals
REGIONS TARGETED: Global
COURSE FEE: $300
ORGANIZERS: Capacity Africa Institute
LANGUAGE: English only
FORMAT: Web-based and Distance Learning facilitated
GENERAL COURSE CONTACT: [email protected]

Prior to the course start date, selected participants will receive, via
email, an official invitation letter along with instructions on how to pay
for the course. Course log on instructions will be emailed to you on the day the course
is scheduled to begin. Participants must submit three assignments before certification.

Training Package offers Value for the Money. Training will be moderated by
professional with hands on skills and great wealth in Accounting and Book Keeping.

Kindly confirm your participation with:

Online Training Coordinator
Capacity Africa Institute
[email protected]
www.capacitybuildingonline.com