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Certificates: Certificate "DATEV specialist"
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Additional Certificates: DATEV certificate "DATEV user wage and salary"
DATEV certificate "DATEV financial accounting user" -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
DATEV-Anwender Lohn und Gehalt
DATEV-Anwender Finanzbuchführung -
Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 16 Weeks
Fundamentals of human resources management
Fundamentals of human resources management (approx. 2 days)
Objectives and tasks of operational human resources management
Organization and framework conditions of human resources management
Personnel administration
Personnel information and statistics
Diversity management
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Personnel administration (approx. 5 days)
Tasks and process structures
Instruments of personnel administration
Information systems
Fundamentals of labor law
Employment contracts
Data protection
Personnel planning/recruitment (approx. 5 days)
Objectives, importance and tasks of personnel planning
Processes and components of personnel planning
Applicant management and requirement profiles
Evaluation of applicant documents
Special features of SMEs
Job interviews/selection process
Hiring new employees
Personnel development (approx. 3 days)
Basic questions of personnel development
Instruments of promotion
Staff appraisal
Development stages and target measurements
Company training and further training
Differentiation between further training and forms of training
Personnel remuneration (approx. 3 days)
Personnel costs
Basics of cost and activity accounting
Forms of remuneration
Basics of payroll accounting
Gross/net wage calculation
Income tax and social security regulations
Payroll accounting
Project work (approx. 2 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Accounting basics
Accounting basics (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)
Legal basics
Inventory, stocktaking, balance sheet
Determination of profit through equity comparison
Posting to balance sheet and profit and loss accounts (full-time approx. 2.5 days/part-time approx. 5 days)
Value changes in the balance sheet
Breakdown of the balance sheet into inventory costs
Posting business transactions and closing the balance sheet accounts
Simple and compound posting records
Opening and closing balance sheet account
Expenses and income
Profit and loss account as closing account of the profit and loss accounts
Introduction to depreciation of property, plant and equipment (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Causes, posting, effect and calculation of depreciation
Profit and loss account
Inventory changes (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Inventory increase, inventory decrease
Effect on the profit and loss account
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Sales tax on purchases and sales (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
The nature of sales tax (value added tax)
Value added tax - a transitory item for companies
Accounting for sales tax
Private withdrawals and deposits (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Private account
Free withdrawal of goods and other services
Organization of bookkeeping (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Chart of accounts and chart of accounts
Tasks and structure of the chart of accounts
Document organization
Meaning and types of documents
The books of financial accounting
General ledger, general ledger, subledgers
Open item accounting
Procurement and sales bookings (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Merchandise
Procurement costs, returns
Immediate discounts, price reductions
Delivery accounts, customer accounts
Posting of material purchases to expense accounts
Bookings in the personnel area (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Wages, salaries
Advances, benefits in kind
Special allowances
Bookings in the fixed assets area (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)
Asset accounting
Acquisition of fixed assets
Retirement, sale, withdrawal of fixed assets
Taxation of companies and entrepreneurs (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)
Annual financial statements (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)
Inventory differences
Other receivables/other liabilities
Prepaid expenses and deferred income
Accruals and provisions
Project work (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Wages and salaries with DATEV
Legal framework for payroll accounting (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Introduction to labor law
Social security law: obligation to pay social security contributions, pay-as-you-go obligation, reporting system, obligation to keep records
Wage tax law: tax deduction features, tax recording and reporting obligations
Meaning of wage types
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Creation of employees and clients in DATEV (full-time approx. 5 days/part-time approx. 10 days)
Client creation in DATEV
Save and import clients
Recording social security and tax law specifics, other client master data
Creation of different employee types
Dealing with the digital personnel file
Special features (e.g. trainees, part-time employees, managing directors, etc.)
Social security key
Leavers
Payments and deductions in DATEV (full-time approx. 4 days/part-time approx. 8 days)
Salary and time wage
Special wage types: piecework and premium wages
Surcharges
Staff discounts
One-off payments (e.g. Christmas and vacation bonuses)
Travel allowances
Continued payment of wages in the event of illness
Payment of wages (payment of wages on public holidays)
Garnishment
Benefits in kind and non-cash benefits
Company car
Travel expenses and expense reimbursements Movement data
Maternity protection and maternity pay
Company pension scheme
Payroll accounting and monthly closing with DATEV (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Calendar entry
Entry and exit management
Payroll accounting and monthly closing
Reporting and certification
Payroll tax registration
Sending data
Repeat and recalculations
Transfer of payroll postings to financial accounting
Year-end closing work
Digital cooperation between tax consultants and companies (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)
Project work, certification preparation (via the DATEV Students online platform) and certification exam "DATEV User Wages and Salaries" (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Financial accounting with DATEV
Client master data (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)
Creation of a new client
Importing and saving client data
Account master data (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
From chart of accounts to chart of accounts
Account functions
Creating individual accounts
Create and manage
Current accounts
Account assignment of sample documents according to the SKR03 or SKR04 chart of accounts
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Posting (full-time approx. 6 days/part-time approx. 12 days)
According to the DATEV posting logic
Posting digital documents
Posting with automatic accounts and tax keys
Posting with "posting batches"
Defining "posting batches"
Dialog postings and batch postings
Allocation and split postings
Reversal postings - general reversal (DATEV)
Posting intra-Community deliveries and intra-Community acquisitions
Posting for third country transactions
Posting by company code (incoming and outgoing invoices, bank, cash register)
Posting lists
Financial accounting evaluations (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time 4 days)
Primanota and journal
Totals and balances list
Open item management (posting invoices, posting payments)
Advance sales tax returns
Small business regulation (§19a UStG, special reporting procedure)
Summary reports (ZM)
Business analyses (BWA)
Controlling report
Year-end closing (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Closing entries
Balance sheet and profit and loss account
New depreciation options: Graduated depreciation for electric vehicles, declining balance depreciation (2025-2027)
Fixed asset movement schedule
Annual financial statement evaluations
Printing evaluations
Special features (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)
Integration with the wage and salary program
Integration with asset accounting (ANLAG)
Project work, certification preparation (via the DATEV Students online platform) and certification exam "DATEV-Anwender Finanzbuchführung" (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.
The course offers you a structured and practical introduction to HR work. You will get to know the central areas of human resources management and apply them directly in realistic scenarios. You will then gain in-depth knowledge of accounting and master all important accounting processes. All content is taught in the context of the overall business operations so that you can clearly recognize the connections. In addition, you will learn the basics of payroll accounting, carry this out confidently and work practically with the DATEV software. You will be ideally equipped to implement accounting processes confidently and professionally.
The course is aimed at people from the commercial or administrative sector, people from financial accounting and bookkeeping, tax consultants, auditors, entrepreneurs and law firm employees and all people who would like to acquire in-depth knowledge of DATEV.
With your newly acquired knowledge and skills, you will improve your career opportunities across all sectors. Bookkeeping and accounting specialists are in demand from companies in industry, trade, services and finance: according to the manufacturer, around 2.5 million medium-sized German companies rely on DATEV's information services.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).