Hi everyone - I've just received a quote to study level 2 & 3 ICB manual bookkeeping from the Home Learning College £1,600, I nearly dropped through the floor.
I have just finished studying level 1 and 2 manual through The Learning & Skills Open College and it cost me £832. I am also studying level 1 and 2 computerised and that is setting me back £1140.00 - not cheap at all but I do pay monthly by direct debit so that helps.
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Wow that is a lot of money. I am distance learning ACCA CAT course and that is about £200 per paper, although I am not sure if that same syllabus needed for ICB but you are working towards accounting technician level.
Thanks for your replies, I was really shocked with the quote they gave me. I studied with Home Learning for the ICB level 1 manual & ICB level 2 computerised bookkeeping, which was quite expensive but much cheaper than what they've quoted for the manual levels 2 & 3.
Apart from the fact HLC are rubbish, I just bought the Bookkeeping book from Kaplans for about £27.00, a copy of the Business Accounting book off Amazon for about £15.00 and taught myself. I got a merit so I can't have done too bad a job!!
I started with essential bookkeeping from the National Extension College. I found the course pretty good overall from a beginners point of view, however I found the text book contained lots of printing errors/spelling mistakes which put me off a bit. But no where near as expensive as you stated. I also bought Wood and Sangsters business accounting volume 1 which really gave a different perspective on many of the topics and also had a lot more practical questions to try.