Bookkeeping Course Cost
How does The Balancing Act bookkeeping course cost compare to the cost of training new recruits yourself?
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Look beyond the cost of the course
When choosing a bookkeeping course, the real question is not simply what it costs. It is how quickly that investment helps your new recruit contribute, become chargeable and support the wider profitability of your firm.
Increase early recovery rates
Help new recruits become chargeable to clients sooner, improving recovery rates during the earliest stages of their employment.
Give managers their time back
Reduce the time experienced team members spend explaining, training and assessing basic bookkeeping knowledge.
See a faster return on investment
Combine reduced management time with earlier chargeable work to recover the cost of the course more quickly.
The result is not simply a trained recruit. It is a more productive and profitable team.
How Much Could You Save on Training Costs
Training a new recruit takes more than course fees. It also takes valuable time away from experienced team members, delays chargeable work and slows down the return on your new hire.
In this video, Simon shows how The Balancing Act can help trainees become productive sooner, reduce internal training demands and deliver a faster return on your investment.
Practical bookkeeping training, tailored to your needs
Choose the complete self-study course or add professional marking and feedback. The bookkeeping aptitude test is included with either training option.
The Balancing Act
Complete Training Course
A complete five-day self-study bookkeeping induction designed to give new recruits strong, practical foundations.
- Complete online training programme
- Practical bookkeeping activities
- Bookkeeping aptitude test included
The Balancing Act
Complete Training Course & Marking
Get the complete training programme alongside professional marking, feedback and additional reassurance for your firm.
- Everything in the complete course
- Professional marking included
- Feedback on the trainee’s work
Bookkeeping Aptitude Test
Recruitment Test
Assess a candidate’s natural aptitude for bookkeeping before making your recruitment decision.
- Use during recruitment
- Assess bookkeeping aptitude
- Included with either training course
Who Should Buy This Bookkeeping Training Course?
Any firm of accountants who is recruiting new staff into their accounts teams – whether it be Business Services or Audit, or those studying ACA, ACCA or AAT. Double entry bookkeeping is the foundation for all future accountancy studies and for all future work in accountancy. “Reading, writing and arithmetic” is the foundation for anyone starting at Primary School. Double entry bookkeeping is the same for anyone starting in Accounting Practice.
Although we are passionate about how quickly you will see a return on The Balancing Act bookkeeping course cost, we want to make sure it is relevant to your business before you purchase it. Hence we have set out below some categories of learners for whom the course might not be appropriate.
Who Should Not Buy It?
Entrepreneurs & Business Owners
The Balancing Act is designed for those seeking a professional finance career in Accountancy. It is not suitable for those who wish to have an overview of their own company finances and therefore the bookkeeping course cost would not be a good investment.
Non-Finance Managers
Managers with responsibilities outside finance should not buy The Balancing Act as it is much more detailed than their needs require and again the bookkeeping course cost would not be a good spend.
Bookkeepers
While The Balancing Act will provide a thorough grounding in the concepts required, bookkeepers should always get a full AAT professional qualification before embarking on client work in order to be fully qualified and insured.
New recruits not working in accounting practice.
The Balancing Act takes students from processing daily transactions, such as sales and purchases and cash receipts and payments right up to a Balance Sheet and a Profit & Loss Account. This will generally be too much too soon for those with an accounting transactions role in industry and commerce.
New recruits starting on the full Level 2 Certificate in Accounting.
As above, The Balancing Act could be too much too soon. Level 2 takes students up-to the Initial Trial Balance. Period end accounts, including a Balance Sheet and a Profit & Loss Account, are covered at Level 3. We have had clients purchase The Balancing Act for students who have completed their Level 2 and still haven’t really got to grips with double entry bookkeeping. The pass mark in all AAT exams is 70% and so one can pass the Level 2 bookkeeping exams and still not understand 30% of it. This is no good in the office! Someone completing The Balancing Act at this stage should really be achieving between 90% and 100% in their end of course test.
Try The Balancing Act with complete confidence
We understand that investing in training is an important decision. You need to know that the programme will deliver meaningful value for your trainee, your experienced team members and your firm.
Give The Balancing Act a proper try. If you are not satisfied with the programme, we will refund the entire bookkeeping course fee without quibble.
We have never been asked to provide a refund, but the promise is there to give you complete reassurance.