Course Information
Develop key accounting and bookkeeping fundamentals with a leading qualification to kickstart your global career from the Philippines. From preparing financial reports, lodging business, and installment activity statements to establishing payroll systems and working effectively using emotional intelligence and ethical awareness, you’ll cover it all with this internationally in-demand certification.
- Unlock the basics of accounting and bookkeeping
- Create and lodge business activity statements (BAS)
- Prepare financial reports
- Establish and maintain payroll systems
- Develop and implement emotional intelligence in a professional context
- Get to grips with industry-leading software, such as MYOB and Xero.
The Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping (FNS40217) has been custom-built by industry experts who have decades of practical experience and knowledge in the industry. This is designed to give you top-notch practical skills and understanding, making you job-ready the moment you graduate.
Free Membership
By successfully completing this course with Ab2 Institute of Accounting, you will have free student membership with the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). The AAT is Australia’s longest-standing bookkeeping association and provides members with important status and recognition for their skills and experience. Ab2 is honored to work closely with AAT to support the training, development, and accreditation of Australia’s accounting technicians and bookkeeping professionals. In addition, we have connections with over 800 accounting firms and partnerships with some of the financial industry’s best-known names in software.
Details
Price: ₱37,000 or ₱12,600 upfront, the rest in 12 months for only ₱2,034 via billease
Course Duration
Part-time study of 10-15 hours a week will take 6-12 months to complete (with up to 390 study hours, depending on industry experience).
Access Time
24 months from enrolment.
We’re ready when you are
Start any time with flexible learning hours and fully remote modules.
Career Opportunities
This course is the perfect pathway to start a brilliant career as an accountant, bookkeeper, BAS agent, accounts assistant, or payroll clerk; or for anyone planning to complete a Diploma of Accounting or Payroll. It also fulfills the education requirements to become a registered BAS agent.
Ab² students enjoy:
- Deep industry connections to future-proof your career
- Course development and teaching by real-world industry leaders, not academics
- Unrivaled student support by specialists who only serve the accounting industry
- Free student membership with accounting and bookkeeping industry bodies
- 100% flexibility – Study online, anytime, anywhere, on any device
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Course Modules
Our course has been custom-built by industry experts with decades of real-world, practical experience and knowledge. This will give you top-notch skills and understanding, making you job-ready the moment you graduate.
Prepare Financial Reports BSBFIA401
- Maintain asset registers
- Record general journal entries for balance day adjustments
- Prepare final general ledger accounts
- Prepare end-of-period financial reports
Process financial transactions and extract interim reports FNSACC311
- Check and verify supporting documentation
- Prepare and process banking and petty cash documents
- Prepare and process payable and received invoices
- Prepare journals
- Update financial data and systems
- Prepare deposit facility and lodge flows
- Finalize trial balance and interim reports
Administer subsidiary accounts and ledgers FNSACC312
- Review accounts receivable requirements
- Identify bad and doubtful debts
- Review client compliance with terms and conditions and plan recovery action
- Prepare reports and file documentation
- Distribute creditor invoices for authorization
- Remit payments to creditors
- Reconcile outstanding balances
Set up and operate a computerized accounting system FNSACC416
- Implement an integrated accounting system
- Process transactions in the system
- Maintain system
- Produce reports
Introduce cloud computing into business operations BSBSMB412
- Review computing needs in the business
- Investigate cloud computing services to meet business needs
- Develop a plan to introduce cloud computing
- Support implementation of the plan
Deliver and monitor a service to customers BSBCUS301
- Identify customer needsProvide the relevant service to customers
- Monitor and report on service delivery
Work effectively in the accounting and bookkeeping industry FNSACC408
- Develop professional working relationships
- Identify compliance requirements and support materials
- Set up and maintain systems to meet compliance requirements
- Work autonomously or in a team to complete work activities
- Develop and maintain own competency
Perform financial calculations FNSACC313
- Obtain data and resources for financial calculations
- Select suitable calculation methods and carry out financial calculations
- Check calculations and record outcomes
Develop and use complex spreadsheets BSBITU402
- Prepare and develop a spreadsheet
- Develop a linked spreadsheet solution
- Automate and standardize spreadsheet operation
- Represent numerical data in graphic form
Complete business activity and installment activity statements FNSTPB401
- Identify compliance and other requirements applicable to business activity
- Analyze and apply industry codes of conduct associated with work activities
- Review and apply goods and services tax (GST) implications and code transactions
- Report on payroll activities and amounts withheld
- Reconcile, prepare, and lodge activity statements
Establish and maintain payroll systems FNSTPB402
- Establish and maintain payroll requirements
- Record payroll data
- Prepare and process payroll
- Handle payroll inquiries
Develop and use emotional intelligence BSBPEF502
- Unpack emotional intelligence
- Promote the development of emotional intelligence in others
Apply ethical frameworks and principles to make and act upon decisions FNSINC504
- Deepen your grasp of industry ethics
- Ascertain key facts and identify key ethical principles at play
- Determine ethical response to the situation
- Develop an implementation plan and execution
- Evaluate the outcomes of the ethical response