Basic Book Keeping

Are your accounts written on the back of an envelope?  Does your accountant spend hours sorting through a box of receipts every year?  Well-kept books will provide the information to enable you to make financial decisions, take advantage of trading opportunities, plan ahead with confidence and help you produce periodic and annual accounts, thus reducing your accountant's fees!

Duration - One day

Target Audience - Business owners or managers who wish to learn how to keep their own books.  Suitable for new or established businesses.

Objectives - As a result of this course you will:

  • understand the need to keep financial records
  • know how, in a small business, financial records should be kept
  • be aware of some of the legal requirements for maintaining records
  • be able to record financial transactions

Content

  • Why keep books?
  • What books do I keep?
  • The books
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Value Added Tax
  • Keeping your records

Date, time and venue

  • Wednesday 14 December 2005 
  • 10.00am - 4.00 pm
  • Aros, Portree 

Cost - £50