Accounting Technician Diploma

Learning these skills is easy with Pitman Training. Our tried and trusted methods are the best available and are designed for speedy results.

You work at your own pace in our comfortable premises, helped by experienced tutors as required. The atmosphere is relaxed and non-competitive.

You choose your own hours, working when it suits you ? and keep the reference books and training manuals when the course is over.

The subjects covered are shown below. Together, they will equip you to start a secretarial career with complete confidence.

On completion of your final exams, you will receive a Pitman Training Diploma that is recognised nationally and internationally by employers.

Invest in yourself

Acquiring these vital business skills ? and your Pitman Training Diploma to prove it ? will repay the cost in improved employment opportunities and job advancement potential. What better investment in your own future?

The sooner you start, the sooner you will benefit.

Why Pitman Training?

No-one has helped more people gain valuable business skills than Pitman Training. That unbeatable experience is your guarantee of success.

Our teaching methods are proven; our course materials are the best of their kind.

There are no hidden costs. The Diploma package includes certification fees and all training.

A Pitman Training Diploma is an industry standard; your passport to a better career.

Designed for individuals who wish to develop a comprehensive range of manual and computerised book-keeping and payroll skills together with spreadsheet knowledge.

Core Subjects

Basic Book-Keeping
Gain a clear understanding of the basic principles of book-keeping. Learn how to maintain the cash book, petty cash books and reconcile the bank statement.

Purchase Ledger
Become proficient at maintaining a manual purchase ledger.

Sales Ledger
Become proficient at maintaining a manual sales ledger.

Manual Payroll
Learn to calculate wages and salaries using Inland Revenue tables, understand tax codes, Inland Revenue forms, and how to complete them. Covers holiday pay, Statutory Sick Pay and Statutory Maternity Pay.

Final Accounts I
Learn the principles of double-entry book-keeping in order to maintain a nominal ledger and extract a preliminary trial balance.

Final Accounts II
Learn how to extend the trial balance in order to prepare the final accounts of a business (profit and loss account and balance sheet).

Sage Line 50
Convert your manual book-keeping skills to computerised accountancy using the most popular software.

Sage Payroll
Convert your manual payroll skills to computerised skills using this most popular programme including Statutory Sick Pay, and Statutory Maternity Pay.

Microsoft Excel Proficient
Introductory and intermediate spreadsheet skills to a good employable standard. This course will enable you to create a spreadsheet, entering text, numbers and formulas and creating charts.

Microsoft Excel Expert
Learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables.

Data Entry
Learn efficient use of the numeric keypad. Windows Operating System

This course is for complete beginners and will teach basic computer skills from using a mouse to file management; using the internet and email, creating and printing a document in WordPad.

Recommended Electives - choose 1

Microsoft Word Proficient
Introductory and intermediate word processing skills to a good employable standard. This course will enable you to create professional looking documents, produce tables, insert pictures and much more.

Microsoft Outlook
Learn how to share, manage and schedule information electronically. Covers the use of email, electronic calendar, scheduling meetings and appointments, creating and assigning tasks, creating address lists.