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Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping

FNS40217
FNS40217

The key accounting and bookkeeping qualification for starting your international career

The industry-sought Certificate IV, covers all key accounting and bookkeeping competencies including BAS, financial reports, payroll and software.

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Course Information

Develop key accounting and bookkeeping fundamentals with a leading qualification to kickstart your career anywhere. From preparing financial reports, lodging business and instalment activity statements to establishing payroll systems and working effectively using emotional intelligence and ethical awareness, you’ll cover it all with this nationally accredited 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 has been custom-built by industry experts who have decades of real-world, practical experience and knowledge in the industry. This is designed to give you top-notch practical skills and knowledge, making you job-ready the moment you graduate.

Our industry partners

By successfully completing this course with Ab2, you will have free student membership to the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT). The AAT is Australia’s longest standing bookkeeping association and provides members with important status and recognition about their skills and experience. Ab2 is honoured 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 750 Australian accounting firms and partnerships with some of the financial industry’s best-known names in software.

 

 

 

Details

Price: $1,490 or $66.00/week over 26 weeks

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 fulfils 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
  • Unrivalled student support by specialists who only serve the accounting industry
  • Free student membership with accounting and bookkeeping industry bodies
  • 100% flexible – 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. The leading qualification for Australian finance professionals, this will give you top-notch skills and understanding, making you job-ready the moment you graduate.

Module 1: Debits to the Left, Credits to the Right

BSBFIA401 Prepare Financial Reports 

  • Maintain asset registers
  • Record general journal entries for balance day adjustments
  • Prepare final general ledger accounts
  • Prepare end of period financial reports

 

FNSACC311 Process financial transactions and extract interim reports 

  • 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
  • Finalise trial balance and interim reports

 

FNSACC312 Administer subsidiary accounts and ledgers 

  • 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 authorisation
  • Remit payments to creditors
  • Reconcile outstanding balances
Module 2: Up in the Clouds

FNSACC416 Set up and operate a computerised accounting system 

  • Implement an integrated accounting system
  • Process transactions in the system 
  • Maintain system 
  • Produce reports

 

BSBSMB412 Introduce cloud computing into business operations 

  • 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
Module 3: Cash in, Cash Out

BSBCUS301 Deliver and monitor a service to customers 

  • Identify customer needs
  • Provide the relevant service to customers
  • Monitor and report on service delivery

 

FNSACC408 Work effectively in the accounting and bookkeeping industry 

  • 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
Module 4: Spreadsheet Storytelling

FNSACC313 Perform financial calculations 

  • Obtain data and resources for financial calculations
  • Select suitable calculation methods and carry out financial calculations
  • Check calculations and record outcomes

 

BSBITU402 Develop and use complex spreadsheets 

  • Prepare and develop a spreadsheet
  • Develop a linked spreadsheet solution
  • Automate and standardise spreadsheet operation
  • Represent numerical data in graphic form
Module 5: Tax Me If You Can

FNSTPB401 Complete business activity and instalment activity statements 

  • Identify compliance and other requirements applicable to business activity
  • Analyse 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

 

FNSTPB402 Establish and maintain payroll systems 

  • Establish and maintain payroll requirements
  • Record payroll data
  • Prepare and process payroll
  • Handle payroll enquiries
Module 6: EQ & Ethics

BSBPEF502 Develop and use emotional intelligence 

  • Unpack emotional intelligence 
  • Promote the development of emotional intelligence in others

 

FNSINC504 Apply ethical frameworks and principles to make and act upon decisions 

  • 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

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