ICB Bookkeeping Levels 2 & 3 with Starting Your Own Business

About This Course

With our ICB Bookkeeping Levels 2 and 3 with Starting Your Own Business course bundle, you can master the art of bookkeeping while also laying the groundwork for entrepreneurial success. Perfect for prospective accountants, money aficionados, or those looking for a successful career in accounting.

Level 2 will help you improve your bookkeeping abilities by guiding you through transactions, correcting mistakes, and generating beginning trial balances.

Level 3 includes sales and purchase ledgers, post-year adjustments, and detailed financial control.

This bundle goes beyond bookkeeping by enabling you to know your company’s financial landscape- a critical factor impacting its success. These courses become an asset by studying the fundamentals of planning, setup, marketing, and business management, as well as thorough bookkeeping expertise.

Course Benefits

Accredited by the ICB, this flexible course contains everything you need to take charge of your business management and bookkeeping. You will gain real, transferrable skills that can be used to benefit your business or even others.

At the same time, this course bundle will continue to challenge your competency and comprehension, as it asks you to apply these newly acquired skills within a practical setting. This course will:

This course will:

• Earn you an internationally recognised qualification from the world’s largest bookkeeping institute.
• Enable you to work for all types of organisations or even as a freelance bookkeeper.
• Allow you to study at a pace of your choosing – no pressure, no tight deadlines, no unnecessary stress..
• Help you to launch a new business, handle your own books and show you how to plan, set up and market your business.

Successfully completion of this course bundle will also enable you to gain full ICB member status and the use of MICB after your name – designated letters that are sure to impress prospective employers and clients.

In addition, enrolment onto this course will earn you FREE ICB 1 year annual subscriptions and registration fee (worth £78) and FREE access to Sage 50 Accounts software. Please note: Whilst studying this course you will be asked to install the free Sage software mentioned above (your course materials will inform you of the right time to install it).

Once installed you will have 6 months to complete the computerised section of the course. You will need to have Windows 7 or higher on your computer; Sage will not run on Windows XP oron Apple Macintosh computers.

Course Units

ICB Level 2 Certificate in Bookkeeping – Associate Membership AICB

• Unit 1: Underpinning Knowledge
• Unit 2: Prepare Business Documents
• Unit 3: Accounting for VAT
• Unit 4: Entering Transactions
• Unit 5: Reconciliation and Reporting

ICB Level 3 Certificate in Bookkeeping and Accounts – Full Membership MICB

• Unit 1: Underpinning knowledge
• Unit 2: Reconciliation of accounts and correction of errors
• Unit 3: Reconcile and Produce VAT Returns
• Unit 4: Calculate and Post Adjustments to the Accounts
• Unit 5: Produce Draft Final Accounts for Internal Management Purposes

Starting Your Own Business Level 3

• Unit 1: Preparing to Start Your Business
• Unit 2: Defining Your Business
• Unit 3: Marketing
• Unit 4: Customers
• Unit 5: Finance
• Unit 6: Your Business Plan

Assessment

Our Starting Your Own Business Level 3 course is assessed through a series of written assignments that are designed to test your syllabus knowledge. These will need to be submitted to and marked by your personal tutor, who will provide you with valuable feedback and tips.No external examinations are required for this part of the course.

For the ICB Bookkeeping Complete course, you will need to complete the following written assessments to gain the formal ICB qualifications.

These include:

• Level 2 Certificate: Three online tests
• Level 3 Certificate: Four online tests and a centre-based examination

All of the online tests can be done at home, at work or wherever you have access to a secure Internet connection. They are designed to be quick, simple and to test your course knowledge. In the case of the centre-based tests, you will need to book these yourself and pay an additional fee to the ICB and to the examination centre (that is separate to the course cost). Contact our support team to find your closest approved ICB examination centre.

Required Knowledge

No prior knowledge or experience in bookkeeping is required in order to enrol onto this course.

Awarding Body

This bookkeeping course comes with two options:

Option 1
The course can be studied for personal interest and can be completed without doing an assessment. Here, you will be provided with a completion certificate.

Option 2
You can opt to take the exams online from home. Upon successful completion, you will gain three bookkeeping Certificates: the ICB Level 2 Certificate in Bookkeeping, and the ICB Level 3 Certificate in Bookkeeping and Accounts. By passing both, you will gain Full membership status with the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers and will be able to use the letters MICB after your name – highlighting your skills to future and prospective employers/ clients.

The Starting Your Own Business Level 3 course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme (QLS). QLS endorses high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This means that the course has undergone external quality checks by the awarding body to ensure it meets a high standard.

The learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.

Support

From day one, you will be met with the continued support, guidance and instruction of our personal tutors as they strive to enhance your studies through their years of expertise in the field. No question is too big or too small. Instead, you can easily contact our tutors and benefit from years of knowledge and experience.

In turn, our student support team can help you to decipher our course materials and comprehensive study guides, and do so at a click of a button.