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Community Accountancy Service are running the following short courses:

The Next Step In Book Keeping This course is a series of 4 days (on Fridays) for those who already have some experience with general bookkeeping. Over the 4 days we will look at the following: Pro forma for the financial statements; lead you through the glossary of terms used; explain how the double entry bookkeeping works; the wonders of "debits" and "credits"; how to balance off a ledger account; produce a trial balance and extended trial balance to include depreciation, accruals and prepayments and provisions for bad or doubtful debts; follow the extended trail balance information through to the next stage of a simple profit and loss account and balance sheet.

Planning For Future Success Learn about the 7-step plan that will enable your business to not only survive but also thrive in the community. This one day course will lead you through the following steps: Information gathering and analysis Identification of critical issues facing the organisation Development of a strategic vision statement that sets the future direction Development of Mission statement Development of strategic goals Formulation of strategies for each goal Preparation for operational planning, based on the strategic plan (developing annual objectives)

How To Produce Budgets For Planning And Control Purposes What is a budget? How will it help my business? What do monitoring and evaluation mean? Do I really need to have a budget? This one day course will look at the following areas: To understand and produce budgets Use spreadsheets to draw up a budgetTo monitor monthly expenditure To report budget variances and take action

How To Manage Cash Flow Cash flow is king! What does this mean? Learn how to produce a cash flow statement and keep your business on track - without nasty surprises. This one day course will look at the following areas: What does the terminology mean? Look at the importance of cash and cash flow management Understanding and interpreting cash flow - why cash flow and profit differ The cash wheel - generation and expenditure otherwise known as the working capital cycle. Liquidity measures

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