COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course aims to provide the essential awareness and understanding of financial issues which is needed by the personal assistant to contribute in a proactive role. Accounting jargon will be clearly explained. Awareness of important developments such as the significance of the change to International Accounting Standards will be covered.
COURSE CONTENT
- Getting to grips with the terminology
- Review of the basic financial statements - Profit and loss account, balance sheet, cash flow
- What they tell you about the organisation
- How they are produced
- Why they are needed - Legal, accounting standards, taxation
- How they inter-relate
- Who uses them and why
- The internal customer -user departments – their role and the role of the finance function in budgetary planning and control
- An overview of the significance and impact of the change to International Accounting
- Standards on the financial statements
- Corporate governance and audit – an overview
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Staff who need a basic understanding of accounting and finance.
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