If you want into accounts work but the jargon puts you off, this certificate was made for that. You learn journals, ledgers, GST and financial statements from scratch, then put them to work in Xero and MYOB.
No background needed. The first topic is accounting and bookkeeping fundamentals, and every one after it builds on the last. Nothing assumes you already know the words.
If you run a small business, this is the ground you keep paying someone else to cover. GST, income tax basics, and a set of financial statements you can read.
Xero and MYOB Business Essentials are both in here, along with Excel. Those three names appear in most accounts job ads in New Zealand.
Accounts work is steady in a way not much else is, because every business has to do it whether the year is good or bad. The day is easy to picture: entries checked, the GST return away, and someone asking you what the numbers mean.
Journals, ledgers, reconciliations and GST for a small business or a few clients. This course covers the whole of it.
Supporting an accounts team, with the statements and analysis work covered here so you are useful past data entry.
Understanding GST has its own topic, and returns are one of the few jobs that must happen on a deadline every time.
Bills in, payments out, reconciled in Xero or MYOB. A common first step into an accounts team.
Budgets, cashflow and reporting for a business, using the same software and the same statements.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience. Accountant and auditor titles need accredited tertiary study on top of this.
Thirteen topics, running in order at your own pace.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Xero and MYOB Business Essentials are both covered. You are not locked out of a job because the employer runs the other one.
Budgeting, forecasting, cashflow and financial statement analysis. Reading the accounts, not only producing them.
Thirteen topics that run in order, at your own pace, with unlimited tutor support behind you when a concept will not land.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Finish the course and you receive the college's Certificate of Achievement.
Both systems covered, which is what most accounts job ads are asking for.
Support for the job search, including interview preparation.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly with no deposit and no credit check, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the thirteen topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, then go looking with Xero and MYOB behind you.
None at all. It opens with accounting and bookkeeping fundamentals and assumes you have never seen a journal entry before.
The payment plan is $29 a week, with no deposit and no credit check. You can pay weekly, fortnightly or monthly, or pay upfront. Enquire for the full options.
Around 140 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work and family.
Both, plus Excel. That matters because employers tend to run one or the other, and you cannot tell from the job ad which way it will fall.
There are none, ever. You are assessed through practical accounting work, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For bookkeeping and accounts support work it is no barrier: what employers look for is whether you can do the entries and drive the software.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
Courses run fully online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Its accounting tutors are qualified accountants. Career coaching comes with your enrolment, including CV help and interview preparation.
Picture the first time a set of accounts stops looking like a wall of numbers and starts telling you a story. Learning to read that story is what this is.