Description
The Finance Diploma is designed to provide a practical ability to get their first job in financial services or within a company’s accounting/finance area.
Finance Diploma in the Netherlands
The course combines the Bookkeeping Training Course, Microsoft Excel Training Course and Finance for non-financial Managers.
Course Content
1. Bookkeeping Training Course
This 2-day intensive virtual classroom course provides the learner with a sound understanding of double-entry bookkeeping.
- The completion of financial documents such as invoices and credit notes
- The recording of cash and credit transactions
- Practical explanation of double entry system
- Posting of ledgers and relevance of T-accounts
- The preparation and balancing of a bank reconciliation
- Petty Cash
- Year-end adjustments include accruals, depreciation, pre-payments, etc.
- Journals
- Preparing a trial balance from raw data
- Extended trial balances and year-end adjustments
- The creation of straightforward Profit & Loss and Balance sheet reports from trial balance
2. Finance for non-Financial Managers Course
This is a 2-day intensive virtual classroom course aimed at providing a sound understanding of the concepts of finance, how to understand and analyse financial data.
- The profit and loss account (income statement) and the balance sheet
- How to stop abuses of established accounting policy.
- The use of creative accounting methods
- Key financial ratios
- Ratio analysis to real company accounts in practical terms
- Management of working capital
- The importance of liquidity and cash-flow control
- Cost control and management; categorisation of costs
- Trading margin and revenue generation improvements
- What is break-even analysis
- How your business plans capital investment; assessment methods.
- Achieve business targets through the deployment of financial data.
3. Microsoft Excel Course
This course can be taken online; it uses live server interactive technology to mark your real-world practical exercises. The system includes an assessment that will lead to certification if successful.
Who is it for?
This course would suit anyone without a formal finance education or background who wants to start working in this area.