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when you study the Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping with Applied Education.
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FNSACC323 Perform Financial Calculations describes the skills and knowledge required to use a range of routine calculation methods and techniques when performing routine financial calculations and checking calculation outcomes.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1-1 - Overview
- Chapter 2-1 - Data, Tools and Resources
- Chapter 2-2 - Computers and Financial services software
- Chapter 2-3 - Spreadsheets
- Chapter 3-1 - Basic calculations
- Chapter 3-2 - Multiplication
- Chapter 3-3 - Division
- Chapter 3-4 - Addition
- Chapter 3-5 - Subtraction
- Chapter 3-6 -Order of Operations BIMDAS
- Chapter 4-1 - Percentages
- Chapter 4-2 - Fractions
- Chapter 4-3 - Decimals Chapter 5-1 - Credit Interest
- Chapter 5-2 - Simple Interest
- Chapter 5-3 - Compound Interest
- Chapter 5-4 - Loan repayment Calculations
- Chapter 5-5 - GST Calculations
- Chapter 5-6 - Income Tax
- Chapter 5-7 - Business Records
- Chapter 5-8 - Keeping Accurate Records
- Chapter 6-1 - Straight Line Graphs
- Chapter 6-2 - Mark-up and break even
- Chapter 6-3 - Straight Line Depreciation
- Chapter 6-4 - Recheck data
- Chapter 7-1 - Checking for errors
- Chapter 8-1 - Policies and Procedures
- Chapter 9-1 - Practice activities Q1-27
- Chapter 9-2 - Practice activities Q28-36
BSBTEC302: This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to develop spreadsheets through the use of spreadsheet applications.
It applies to individuals employed in a range of environments who tend to be personally responsible for designing and working with spreadsheets under minimal supervision. These individuals are generally required to have intermediate knowledge and understanding of a number of spreadsheet applications.
BSBTEC402: This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to use spreadsheet software to complete business tasks and produce complex documents.
The unit applies to individuals employed in a range of work environments who require skills in creation of complex spreadsheets to store and retrieve data. They may work as individuals providing administrative support within an enterprise, or may be independently responsible for designing and working with spreadsheets relevant to their own work roles.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Topic 1 - Understanding the Excel Screen and Navigation
- Topic 2 - Basic Data Entry, Creating, Saving and Opening Workbooks
- Topic 3 - Creating a Template Part 1: Working with Worksheets and Layout
- Topic 4 - Creating a Template Part 2: Formatting Text and Titles
- Topic 5 - Creating a Template Part 3: Formatting Numbers
- Topic 6 - Creating a Template Part 4: Creating Totals Using Formulas and Functions
- Topic 7 - Creating a Template Part 5: Working With Percentages and Absolute Cell References
- Topic 8 - Creating a Template Part 6: Linking Cells and and Using the IF Function
- Topic 9 - Finalising and Reviewing a Template - Applying Final Touches and Testing Formulas
- Topic 10 - Using a Template
- Topic 11 - Charts: Selecting Chart Types and Creating Charts
- Topic 12 - Charts: Changing Chart Locations and Creating a PDF
- Topic 13 - Importing Text Files into Excel
- Topic 14 - Cleaning Up Imported Text Files, Adding Formatting and Formulas
- Topic 15 - Creating a Macro and Saving a Macro Enabled Workbook
FNSACC426 Set up and Operate a Computerised Accounting System describes the skills and knowledge required to establish, operate, and modify an integrated computerised accounting system.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1-1 Get Started
- Chapter 2-1 Creating a Company File
- Chapter 2-2 Accessing the Accounts List
- Chapter 2-2 Deleting Accounts
- Chapter 2-2 Accessing the Accounts List
- Chapter 2-2 Deleting Accounts
- Chapter 2-2 Editing Account Details
- Chapter 2-2 Header and Detail Accounts
- Chapter 2-2 Indenting Accounts
- Chapter 2-3 Backup Company Files
- Chapter 2-3 Exiting and Opening MYOB
- Chapter 2-3 Restoring the Company File
- Chapter 2-3 Setting Preferences
- Chapter 3-1 Open Existing Data File
- Chapter 3-2 Spend Money
- Chapter 3-2 Receiving Money
- Chapter 3-3 Bank Reconciliation
- Chapter 4-1 Using the Transaction Journal
- Chapter 4-2 Establishing Petty Cash
- Chapter 4-2 Raising the Float
- Chapter 4-3 Purchases from Petty Cash
- Chapter 4-3 Chapter Reconciliation and Reports
- Chapter 5-1 Credit Sales
- Chapter 5-2 Cash Sales
- Chapter 5-3 Depositing Cash
- Chapter 5-4 Cash Refunds
- Chapter 5-5 Receive Payments
- Chapter 5-6 Issue Credit Notes
- Chapter 5-7 Chapter Reconciliation and Reports
- Chapter 6-1 Cash Sales of Stock
- Chapter 6-2 Credit Sales of Stock
- Chapter 6-3 Receive Payments
- Chapter 6-4 Prepare Bank Deposit
- Chapter 6-5 Chapter Reconciliation and Reports
- Chapter 7-1 Reviewing Purchase Transactions
- Chapter 7-2 Checking Invoices Received
- Chapter 7-3 Recording Purchase Transactions
- Chapter 7-4 Adding a New Supplier
- Chapter 7-5 Inventory Returns
- Chapter 7-6 Modifying transactions
- Chapter 7-7 Common Supplier Reports
- Chapter 7-8 Paying Suppliers
- Chapter 7-9 Adding New Inventory
- Chapter 8-1 New Company File Assistant
- Chapter 8-2 Accounts Easy Setup Assistant
- Chapter 8-3 Customise Easy Setup Assistant
- Chapter 8-4 Sales Setup Assistant
- Chapter 8-5 Purchases Setup Assistant
- Chapter 8-6 Accounting for Opening Stock
- Chapter 9-1 Month End Adjustment for Depreciation
- Chapter 10-1 Customising Forms
- Chapter 10-2 Printing and emailing forms
- Chapter 10-3 Debtor Management
- Chapter 10-4 Bad and Doubtful Debts
- Chapter 11 - has not been recorded, as the information in this chapter has already been covered in earlier chapters, and the higher level of understanding Inventory is not required by the criteria of this unit. You will look at inventory much closer in a future unit FNSACC405 Maintain Inventory Records.
- Chapter 12-1 Introduction to Final Chapter
- Chapter 12-2 Adjusting Entries
- Chapter 12-3 Closing Financial Year
- Chapter 12-4 Reversing Entries
FNSACC321 Process financial transactions and extract interim reports describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare and process routine financial documents, prepare journal entries, post journal entries to ledgers, prepare banking and reconcile financial receipts, and extract a trial balance and interim reports.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- 1-1 - Case Study Introduction
- 2-1 - The fundamentals of accounting - part 1
- 2-2 - The fundamentals of accounting - part 2
- 3-1 - Credit transactions and customer and supplier invoices
- 3-2 - Raising client invoices in MYOB 3-2 - Raising client invoices in MYOB
- 3-3 - Checking invoice accuracy and creating a PDF
- 3-4 - Entering supplier tax invoices
- 3-5 - Checking the purchases transaction journal
- 4-1 - Identifying and resolving discrepancies and errors
- 4-2 - Processing customer credits and adjustments
- 4-3 - Processing supplier credits and adjustments
- 5-1 - Financial record keeping concepts
- 6-1 - Data integrity and accuracy concepts
- 6-2 - Running journal reports to check data accuracy
- 6-3 - Running general ledger reports to check data accuracy
- 7-1 - Processing customer payments
- 7-2 - Processing bank deposits
- 8-1 - Making a single payment to a creditor
- 8-2 - Grouping payments to creditors or suppliers
- 8-3 - Creating the bank file and generating an electronic payment report
- 9-1 - Bank reconciliation concepts
- 9-2 - Performing a bank reconciliation
- 9-3 - Creating a bank reconciliation report
- 10-1 - Reporting concepts
- 10-2 - Creating a trial balance report
- 10-3 - Creating a balance sheet report
- 10-4 - Creating a profit and loss report
- 11-1 - Petty cash concepts
- 11-2 - Setting up a petty cash float
- 11-3 - Entering petty cash transactions
- 11-4 - Reimbursing petty cash
- 11-5 - Reconciling and reporting on petty cash
- 12-1 - General journal entry concepts
- 12-2 - Creating a general journal entry
FNSACC418 Work Effectively in the Accounting and Bookkeeping Industry describes the skills and knowledge required to work autonomously and in teams to complete work activities relating to the provision of accounting and bookkeeping services.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
FNSACC405 Maintain Inventory Records describes the skills and knowledge required to comply with organisational inventory procedures, reconcile inventory records to general ledgers, record inventory flows, prepare schedules and produce ad-hoc reports.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Topic 1- Inventory Overview
- Topic 2 - Inventory Valuation
- Topic 3 - Accounting for Inventory
- Topic 4 - Inventory Management
- Topic 5 - MYOB Setup and Purchasing
- Topic 5 - MYOB Sales and Sales Returns
- Topic 5 - MYOB Customer Receipts and Supplier Payments
- Topic 5 - MYOB Inventory Reconciliation and Reporting
FNSTPB412 Establish and Maintain Payroll Systems describes the skills and knowledge required to record and prepare payroll documentation, respond to enquiries, and process payroll data for manual and computerised systems.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
1. Online Tutorials Part 1 - Payroll Administration in Australia
2. Online Tutorials Part 2 - Payroll Using MYOB
- 1-1 - Case Study Introduction - Marks Music
- 2-1 - Loading tax tables and general payroll information
- 2-2 - Setting up payroll categories - wages
- 2-3 - Setting up payroll categories for taxes, superannuation and linked accounts
- 2-4 - Setting up annual leave for part time and full time employees
- 2-5 - Setting up personal leave for part time and full time employees
- 3-1 - Creating a full time employee
- 3-2 - Creating a part time employee
- 4-1 - Setting up Single Touch Payroll
- 5-1 - Processing a pay run
- 5-2 - Review payroll journal and generate payroll reports
- 6-1 - Setting up separately identified allowances
- 6-2 - Processing a pay run with allowances
- 6-3 - Setting up gross payment and recurring allowances
- 7-1 - Setting up bonuses
- 7-2 - Processing a pay run with bonuses
- 8-1 - Creating after tax deductions
- 8-2 - Processing a pay run with after tax deductions
- 8-3 - Paying amounts withheld for liabilities
- 9-1 - Processing annual and personal leave
- 9-2 - Producing leave reports
- 10-1 - Setting up salary sacrificed superannuation for an employee
- 10-2 - Processing a pay run with salary sacrificed superannuation
- 10-3 - Setting up employee superannuation contributions after tax
- 10-4 - Reconciling and producing reports for superannuation
- 10-5 - Paying superannuation
- 11-1 - Reconciling payroll using reports
- 12-1 - Processing the instalment activity statement
- 12-2 - Paying the instalment activity statement
- 13-1 - Processing pay runs for employee terminations
- 13-2 - Updating the employee card file after termination
- 14-1 - Setting up and reporting on payroll tax
- 15-1 - Creating a casual employee without a TFN declaration
- 15-2 - Setting up and entering timesheets
- 15-3 - Processing a pay run with timesheet hours
- 15-4 - Setting up and entering a timesheet with overtime
- 15-5 - Processing a pay run with timesheet hours and overtime
- 17-1 - End of year reporting
3. Online Tutorials Part 2 - Payroll Using Xero
FNSTPB411 Complete Business Activity and Instalment Activity Statements describes the skills and knowledge required to process and complete business activity statements (BAS), instalment activity statements (IAS), and other required reports according to compliance requirements.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1-1 Creating a Business
- Chapter 1-2 Operating a Business
- Chapter 1-3 Introduction to Actvity Statements
- Chapter 1-4 Providing BAS Services
- Chapter 1-5 Providing income tax
- Chapter 2-1 What is PAYG
- Chapter 2-2 PAYG Withhholding
- Chapter 2-3 PAYGW and Activity Statements
- Chapter 2-4 PAYG Instalments
- Chapter 2-5 PAYGI and Activity Statements Pt1
- Chapter 2-5 PAYGI and Activity Statements Pt2
- Chapter 3-1 The Mechanics of GST - Coming soon
- Chapter 3-2 Types of Supply
- Chapter 3-3 Methods of calculating GST liability
- Chapter 3-4 GST calculation worksheet - GST on purchases
- Chapter 3-4 GST calculation worksheet - GST on sales
- Chapter 4-1 Luxury Car Tax
- Chapter 4-2 Fuel Tax Credits
- Chapter 4-3 Wine Equalization Tax
- Chapter 4-4 Fringe Benefits Tax
- Chapter 5-1 and 5-2 GST payment and recording
- Chapter 5-3 BAS Reporting Forms
- Chapter 5-4 Completing a BAS Pt1
- Chapter 5-4 Completing a BAS Pt2
- Chapter 6-1 Cash and Accrual Accounting
- Chapter 6-2 The Accounts Method
- Chapter 6-3 Interacting with the ATO
- Chapter 6-4 Lodgement of accounting records
- Chapter 6-5 Payment and refunds
- Chapter 6-6 Errors and adjustments
- Chapter 6-7 Cash Flow for Tax Liabilities
- Chapter 7-1 Tax Codes
- Chapter 7-2 Processing transactions in MYOB Pt1
- Chapter 7-2 Processing transactions in MYOB Pt2
- Chapter 7-2 Processing transactions in MYOB Pt3
- Chapter 7-2 Processing transactions in MYOB Pt4
- Chapter 7-3 MYOB Baslink Pt1
- Chapter 7-3 MYOB Baslink Pt2
FNSACC421 Prepare Financial Reports describes skills and knowledge required to record general journal adjustment entries and to prepare end of period financial reports.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2 Part 1
- Chapter 2 Part 2
- Chapter 5 Part 1
- Chapter 5 Part 2
- Chapter 8 Part 1
- Chapter 8 Part 2
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 14 Part 1
- Chapter 14 Part 2
- Chapter 14 Part 3
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 17
FNSACC414 Prepare Financial Statements for Non-Reporting Entities describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare financial statements for entities that do not have a statutory duty to file financial reports with government agencies and regulators.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1 - Financial Regulations
- Chapter 2 - Business Structures
- Chapter 3 - Lesson 1 - Revision of Accounting Concepts
- Chapter 3 - Lesson 2 - Balance Day Adjustments
- Chapter 3 - Lesson 3 - Depreciation
- Chapter 4 - Entering Transactions in MYOB
- Chapter 5 - Lesson 1 - Financial Statements
- Chapter 5 - Lesson 2 - Statement of Cashflow
- Chapter 6 - Reporting using MYOB
- Chapter 7 - Lesson 1 - Financial Statement Analysis
- Chapter 8 - Lesson 1 - Partnerships
- Chapter 8 - Lesson 2 - Partnerships in MYOB
- Chapter 9 - Not for Profits
FNSACC412 Prepare Operational Budgets describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare and document operational budgets for a variety of organisations.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1-1 - Budget outline
- Chapter 2-1 - Accounting Concepts
- Chapter 3-1 - Financial Plan
- Chapter 4-1 - Forecasting overview
- Chapter 4-2 - Forecasting Techniques
- Chapter 4-3 - Forecasting Example
- Chapter 5-1 - Budgetary Control
- Chapter 5-2 Performance Indicators
- Chapter 6-1 - Budgeting
- Chapter 7-1 - Budgets Overview
- Chapter 8-1 - Master Budgets
- Chapter 9-1 Operating Budgets
- Chapter 9-2 - Sales Budgets
- Chapter 10-1 - Fixed and Flexible budgets
- Chapter 11-1 - Cash Budgets
- Chapter 12-1 - Budgeting behaviour
- Chapter 13-1 - Variance Analysis
- Chapter 13-2 - Variance Calculations
- Chapter 14-1 - House of Hats - Case Study
- Chapter 15-1 - Budget Visualisations
FNSACC322 Administer Subsidiary Accounts and Ledgers describes the skills and knowledge required to reconcile and monitor subsidiary accounts and ledgers in financial accounts receivable and accounts payable systems. This includes identifying bad and doubtful debts, communicating with identified clients, and planning a recovery action, recording creditor invoices, and remitting payments to sundry creditors.
The following short videos are recorded by chapter, so you can easily follow while working through your learner guide.
Course Content - Online Tutorial Topics
- Chapter 1 - Basic Accounting concepts
- Chapter 2 -1 Set Up a Free Trial
- Chapter 2 -2 Navigating Xero
- Chapter 2 -3 Set up a Bank Account
- Chapter 2 -4 Understanding Bank feeds
- Chapter 2 -5 Find your Bank Account Transactions
- Chapter 2 -6 Bank Reconciliations
- Chapter 3 - Accounts Receivable
- Chapter 4 - Accounts Payable
- Chapter 4 -1 Xero Updated Batch Payments Feature
- Chapter 5 - Generating Key Reports