NOTE: These Qualifications are currently NOT regulated in the United Kingdom.
Qualifications in this group provide a number of Core Essential Skills that are ideally suited to supporting your application to become a
Registered Graduate Accounting Technician. These qualifications provide the foundation of skills that you will need in order to progress
to the next Professional Level.
Level Descriptor Achievement at this level reflects the ability to identify and use relevant understanding, methods and skills to address problems that are well defined but complex and non-routine. It includes taking responsibility for overall courses of action as well as exercising autonomy and judgement within fairly broad parameters. It also reflects understanding of different perspectives or approaches within an area of study or work. The table below describes the Qualifications available at this Level:
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Learning Outcome To demonstrate an understanding of the maintenance of a full set of accounts for a body, whether corporate or non-corporate. To show a full understanding of techniques of maintaining and controlling all financial books from which a trial balance can be prepared, and from this to be able to prepare trading and profit and loss accounts and balance sheet. The Learner will also be able to show an understanding of the basic principles of taxation including sales taxes. |
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Double Entry Bookkeeping: |
Adjustments for Financial statements: |
Learning Outcome To demonstrate an understanding of the reasons for maintaining management accounting systems and financial control. The Learner will be able to demonstrate sound knowledge of the selection of appropriate management accounting systems and their application to a particular business situation. |
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Introduction to Management Accounting: |
Budget Theory & Functional Budget Preparation: |
Learning Outcome To demonstrate an understanding of analytical techniques and mathematical skills, and an ability to interpret statistical and mathematical information for management decisions. To ascertain knowledge of business mathematics, descriptive statistics, decision analysis, forecasting and related techniques. |
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Basics: |
Averages: |
Learning Outcome To demonstrate an understanding of the market environment, financial environment, government policy and international trade, the principles of economics and their application to economic policies and the business environment. |
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Economic Concepts and Economic Growth: |
Keynesian Theory: |