SAGE PASTEL ACCOUNTING
REQUIREMENTS: Basic User Computing
Course Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Bookkeeping Fundamentals course is a comprehensive training programme which covers the basic bookkeeping terms and concepts, shows how to deal with basic bookkeeping documents and how to use them in a manual accounting system.
This course has been designed for learners who are required to work on any of the Pastel Accounting Software packages, and who have had little or no exposure to bookkeeping.
Learners need to have Mathematical Literacy or Standard 8/Grade 10 Mathematics to complete this course.
Course Outline:
- Topic A: Types of companies
- Topic B: The Double Entry System
- Topic C: Bookkeeping and Accounting Cycle
- Topic A: Introduction to VAT
- Topic B: Terms used in VAT
- Topic C: VAT processing
- Topic D: Calculating VAT
- Topic E: Bank statements
- Topic A: Receipts
- Topic B: Deposit books / slip
- Topic C: Cheque counterfoils
- Topic D: Petty cash vouchers
- Topic E: Tax invoices
- Topic F: Credit notes and Returns
- Topic A: Inventory Systems
- Topic B: Costing Methods
- Topic A: Cash book Journal
- Topic B: Customer and Supplier Journals
- Topic C: Petty Cash Journals
- Topic D: General Journal
- Topic E: Closing off Journals
- Topic F: Credit Notes and Returns
- Topic A: The different sections of the general ledger
- Topic B: Posting from the subsidiary journals to the general ledger
- Topic C: Closing off accounts in the general ledger
- Topic A: Post your General Ledger to your Trial Balance
- Topic A: Post from Trial Balance to Income Statement
- Topic A: Post from your Trial Balance to your Balance sheet

SAGE PASTEL
This course is an Activity Based Learning course, it is an NQF5 level course.
