National Certificate: Junior Bookkeeping
Edge Business School
Key Information
Campus location
Sandton, South Africa
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Feb 2025
Introduction
EBSdotCOZA is a proud tuition provider for the ICB: Financial Accounting Programme. The ICB Financial Accounting Programme teaches you the skills you need to have a career in Bookkeeping and Accounting.
The ICB Foundation Level National Certificate in Junior Bookkeeping will equip you with the skills to perform bookkeeping and payroll functions.
It will equip you to support financial administrators, accounting technicians, accountants, and financial managers in a medium to large organization. You will learn about monthly bookkeeping to trial balance, disclose profit and financial position, reconcile suppliers, bank statements, calculate PAYE/UIF/SDL, payroll tax and other deductions, as well as VAT returns.
Job Opportunities: Junior Bookkeeper, Accounts Clerk, or Payroll Clerk
Modules:
The subjects below make up this course and will need to be completed for you to complete the Foundation Level. Upon successful completion of the below compulsory modules, the learner will complete the foundation level.
Business Literacy - Designed to equip you with the basic numerical and communication skills required to operate effectively in business.
Bookkeeping to Trial Balance - This module introduces you to source documents, double-entry rules, subsidiary journals, the general ledger, bookkeeping for the different inventory systems, bank and creditors reconciliations.
Payroll & Monthly SARS Returns - This module will introduce you to payroll and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act as well as basic business ethics. Learners will be able to complete the payroll function from the bookkeeping perspective. You will also learn how to complete SARS payroll returns (EMP201, IRP 5, IT3a, IRP501) and how to complete the VAT201 return.
Computerized Bookkeeping - The bookkeeper must be able to complete the monthly bookkeeping function on a computer. In this module, you will learn how to do bookkeeping using Microsoft Office and a computerized accounting package, Pastel.
Entry Requirements
Grade 10 or equivalent
No prior accounting knowledge needed
The learner must be at least 16 years of age to enrol.