Course Information - Certificate IV Financial Services

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FNS40604 Certificate IV Financial Services
Course Code: 062515D

Course description
This course provides students with the basic accounting skills and assists them to become trainee accountants, clerical assistants, bookkeepers, payroll clerks and receivable and payable account assistants. The course provides industry recommended pathway for people who may be involved in preparing a variety of business activity statements (BAS) such as preparing office taxes, operational reports, management reports, budgets, basic job costing reports, and classifying, recording and reporting of accounting information, and maintaining inventory records.

Students completing this course will be awarded the nationally accredited Certificate IV in Financial Services (Accounting), which is also a pre-requisite for membership into the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), the body which provides recognition for independently practicing bookkeeping and accounting consultants.

The course can lead to advanced study pathway such as Diploma in Accounting, and could be recognised by some universities to undertake further studies in accounting.

The main objective of this course is to teach all aspects of basic accounting skills in the context of Australian legal, technological and accounting standards and environments.

The course provides specific skills in:
• Preparing financial reports and operational budgets
• Creating and using simple spreadsheets
• Maintaining financial records
• Setting-up and operating computerized accounting systems
• Managing budgets and forecasts
• Producing job costing information, and
• Maintaining asset and inventory records

Course duration will be 42 weeks full time. Minimum 20 hours per week face-to- face.

Entry requirements are: Literacy and mathematical skills of 12 years of school standards, and a minimum of 5.5 in IELTS score, 18 or above in age.

Tuition fee for this qualification is A$ 8, 200 excluding enrolment and material fee.

More information on this course are provided in Certificate IV in Financial Services (Accounting): Pre-enrolment Course in this web site.