In NPA Accounts, you will learn how to prepare, record and analyse financial information used by businesses. The course is designed to give you practical accounting skills that are used in real workplaces. 

You will study how to: 

• • Record financial transactions in ledgers 

  • Prepare financial accounts such as trading, profit and loss accounts and balance sheets 

  • Produce management accounting information like budgets and costings 

  • Handle wages, salaries and payroll 

  • Analyse financial information to support business decisions 

  • Use computer software and spreadsheets for accounting tasks 

  • Develop employability and workplace skills 

These skills come from the mandatory units such as Recording Transactions in the Ledger, Preparing Financial Accounting, Preparing Management Accounting, and Handling Wages and Salaries, as well as IT-based accounting units. 

To do well on NPA Accounts, you should ideally have: 

• A basic level of numeracy (such as National 4 or 5 Maths) 

• An interest in business, finance or accounting 

• Basic IT skills (using a computer, saving files, simple spreadsheets) 

• The ability to work with numbers accurately and carefully 

Previous study of business, accounting or administration is helpful but not essential — the course is designed to build skills from the ground up.