Hello Bob what textbooks do you have do you have textbooks for AAT. What are you aiming to Study for. A Bookkeeping Qualification or Accounting Qualification.
Hello Bob what textbooks do you have do you have textbooks for AAT. What are you aiming to Study for. A Bookkeeping Qualification or Accounting Qualification.
Hi
Bookkeeping only - at 59, no point in aiming higher.
HOPING to do ICB courses to level III.
Books ...
Bookkeeping & Accounts (Frank Wood) Business Accounting 1 & 2 (Wood/Robinson) Mastering Book-Keeping (Peter Marshall) Accounting Skills (Margaret Nicholson) AAT 1 / 2 / 3 Study text and Workbook (2008) Schaum's Bookkeeping & Accounting Practical Bookkeeping set (Home Learning College)
plus a few others (stopped buying now)
DWP (JobCentrePlus) are being very difficult about a grant for the training.
Although I have most of the books to learn the theory, I need the structured approach that a well planned course provides.
You have more than enough books their Bob. I did my International Association of Bookkeepers Foundation Exam in December 1982 and Intermediate Exam in 1983 and passed them. This is Part of The Institute Of Financial Accountants. Have a look at their website if you want. Have a look online to see what Training providers offer. For which route you want to take. Study the books you have and get well conversant with The Double Entry Bookkeeping side of things the Golden rule FOR EVERY DEBIT ENTRY THEIR HAS TO BE A CORESPONDING CREDIT ENTRY. Go to the AAT Website try their Assesment Exam to see what stage you are at. Their is also the ACCA Global they offer a Certified Accounting Technician route. You can even take the Foundation and Intermediate stage online if you want and have the results straight away. You have to shop around to see what route is best for you. and most of the Accounting bodies whether it be a Bookkeeping or Accounting SHOULD GIVE YOU ADVISE ON THE BEST METHOD TO STUDY. A Structered Approach as you say.
Best Wishes.
David
-- Edited by Davey on Sunday 28th of March 2010 11:42:22 AM
You may like to consider Open University. The Introduction to Bookkeeping and Accounting (B190) course allows you claim exemption from the IAB exams, and so to register with them as a bookkeeper. This runs from May to (I think) October, with registration by the end of April.You mentioned jobcentre, which makes me think you may not be working at the moment. If so, you should recieve funding for the full cost of the course, even though it is only 10 points.
If you decide it is for you, you could continue with the Financial Accounting and Management Accounting courses (both 30 point courses). These are new courses but the predecessor was supposed to be equivalent to accounting technician (according to the OU anyway). You should receive full funding for these as well if you income was below £16,000 pa. More info on http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/qualification/k01.htm
I can't pretend this is from experience, but it is something I have been researching
I took the predecessor course (B680) back in 2002/3. It was an excellent course and very intense.
I also joined up with the ACCA as a student at the same time and I feel that those studies really filled in the gaps that the OU missed.
Between the two I got good passes in both the ACCA fundamental exams and the OU B680 course.
I don't think that the new replacements are a direct comparison to B680 though as the management theory exam seems to have disappeared. Unless that is the content of the third part of the exam has been subsumed within the other two modules.
If I had it all to do again I think though that I would have gone the AAT route rather than OU as it really covers the same subject matter but in more depth from the technicians perspective.
Note that the OU course B190 in bookkeeping is pretty much the same course as the AAT ABC bookkeeping course. Both of them are provided by EQL.
I believe that the exemptions that one can get are different between the two exams but that is purely down to the superior negotiating skills of the OU rather than the contents of the course.
Talk later,
Kind regards,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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