Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Purpose statement:
The objective of this course is to equip a student with bookkeeping and basic financial reporting skills applicable to the preparation of a full set of bookkeeping records and the financial reports of a sole proprietorship, company and non-profit organisation - statements of cash flows excluded.
After the successful completion of this course, in terms of bookkeeping, a student should be able to complete the books of prime entry from source documents, post journal entries to ledger(s), calculate and record adjustments, record closing entries, and prepare pre- and post adjustment trial balances. Specific attention is given to the calculation and recording of value-added tax, the preparation of bank reconciliation statements, the application of periodic and perpetual inventory systems, the preparation of debtors and creditors control accounts, and debtors and creditors ledgers. In terms of financial reporting, attention is also given to the preparation of financial reports from incomplete records. In addition, a student should be able to prepare cash budgets
