Purchase Ledger

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Designed for:

Anyone who has a basic understanding of book-keeping techniques and who wants to learn how to maintain a Purchase Ledger.

   

Prerequisites:

A reasonable level of numeracy and experience of the Pitman Training 'Basic Book-keeping' course.

   

Objectives:

To teach the basics of maintaining a manual Purchase Ledger.

Course Content

•  Lesson 1: Introduction to credit purchases, purchase invoices and completing the Purchases Day Book.

•  Lesson 2: The purpose of keeping a Purchase Ledger, locating information to be recorded in the Purchase Ledger accounts, writing up Purchase Ledger accounts, cross-referencing entries in the Purchase Ledger with the Purchases Day Book and Cash Book.

•  Lesson 3: Reconciling the information contained in a supplier's statement, preparing a list of balances from individual Purchase Ledger accounts, writing up a Purchase Ledger Control Account, detecting errors between the Purchase Ledger Control Account and the Individual Purchase Ledger Accounts, Stock records and the importance of accounting for all VAT.

Benefits

•  Designed to follow on from the Basic Book-keeping course.

•  The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace.

•  A personalised workbook to use and keep as a reference guide on completion of the course.

•  The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate.

Course duration:

8 - 10 hours

What next:

Sales Ledger 
Final Accounts I 
Final Accounts II 
Sage Line 50 Computerised Accounts