Course overview
Boost Your Career with Certified Bookkeeping Skills
Boost your bookkeeping career with our industry-accredited ‘Certificate in Bookkeeping with Xero and Sage Payroll’ course. Within ten weeks, you’ll transition from novice to certified bookkeeper, mastering Xero, Sage, QuickBooks, and Excel for professional financial documentation.
This course covers essential skills in VAT, payroll, budgeting, cash flow, small business income tax, and financial statement preparation. Start your journey in bookkeeping with no prior experience needed and unlock new professional opportunities
Job outcomes
- Bookkeeper
- Office Administrator
- Financial Controller
- Payroll Administrator
Recognition
Study method
- Online
- Blended
- In-class
Duration study load
- 12 Months Access | ~180 Study Hours
Study at your own pace – students generally complete one module per-week.
Entry requirements
There are no entry requirements or prerequisites to enrol on this course.
Course features
- Work from home and turn Bookkeeping into a career
- Learn to successfully format worksheets
- Become a Certified Bookkeeper in just ten weeks
- The Career Academy is an Official Xero and IAB and Education Partner
- Course accredited by the International Association of Accounting Professionals
- Delivered by an IAB Accredited Training Provider
- Accredited by the International Council for Online Educational Standards (ICOES)
- Gain access to the Official Xero Advisor Certification
- Become your own payroll administrator with Sage certification
- Gain a qualification that is Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified
Professional recognition
Accredited by AAT
Accredited by ICOES
Accredited by the International Association of Accounting Professionals
Accredited by IAB
Accredited by Sage
Delivery
Your course is delivered through our online learning platform, which you can access from any web browser 24/7 to work whenever and wherever you want. You can also interact with your tutors and other students within the learning environment.
Online learning allows you to make the best use of your time and puts all the necessary resources at your fingertips. There are no set course start dates; you can start whenever you are ready, and your tutors and student services will check in on your progress and help you every step of the way.
Subjects
- Accounting and Bookkeeping Fundamentals
- General Journal
- General Ledger and the Trial Balance
- Depreciation
- Accruals and Prepayments
- Financial Statements
- Fundamentals of VAT
- Fundamentals of Payroll
- Accounting with Sage and Quickbooks
- Accounting with Xero
- Budgeting, Forecasting, and Cashflow Management
- Bookkeeping Using Microsoft Excel
- Introduction to Xero Online
- Setting up Xero Payroll
- Managing Payroll Items with Xero
- New Employee & Time Off Requests with Xero
- Pay Templates in Xero
- Pay Runs in Xero
- Payslips, Reporting & Filing in Xero
- Setting Up Sage One Payroll
- Pay Runs in Sage One Payroll
- Managing Employees & Pensions in Sage One
- Year-End Obligations in Sage One Payroll
- Sage One Payroll
About The Career Academy
We're an internationally recognised online education provider, who partners with the industry to deliver you the latest and most up-to-date content. We have almost 15 years of experience in online education and help change the lives of over 20,000 students every single year.
- Upskill and be awarded a certificate of achievement to help you reach your potential & earn more.
- Flexible online learning so you can study whenever and wherever you want.
- Get free access to the career centre which will review and improve your CV to help you succeed.
- 83% of our graduates say our qualifications improved their ability to get a new job or promotion.
