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Certificates: Certificate "Vocational German language support for the commercial/technical sector"
Certificate "Fundamentals of Accounting" -
Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
Certification exam for vocational German language support -
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: 12 Weeks
Job-related German language support for the commercial/technical sector
General language skills (approx. 1 day)
Repetition of important grammar topics and application of complex linguistic structures of German grammar
Reading and understanding texts from different areas, global and selective reading comprehension
Improving listening comprehension
Correspondence in a professional environment (approx. 2 days)
Layout and letter design
Contemporary salutations and letter introductions
Customer-oriented letters and e-mails
Reporting
Cover letters according to DIN 5008
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Professional field of communication management (approx. 3 days)
Confident communication in the company
Forms of communication in teams
Meetings and presentations
Conflict management
Staff appraisals
Job interviews
Sales and consultation meetings
Writing offers
Trade fairs and product presentations
Complaints
Business career field (approx. 6 days)
Human resources, management and labor law
Finance and controlling
Payroll accounting
Professional field of marketing (approx. 6 days)
Advertising
Market analysis and market research
Online marketing and e-commerce
Company processes (approx. 9 days)
Restructuring, process management, process changes
Digital transformation
Changes in energy management and environmental protection
Project management
Occupational field logistics and trade (approx. 8 days)
production
Purchasing
Delivery and transportation
Retail trade
Project work, certification preparation and certification examination (approx. 5 days)
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 days/part-time approx. 4 days)
Value changes in the balance sheet
Dissolution of the balance sheet in inventory costs
Posting business transactions and closing 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. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)
Causes, posting and effect of depreciation
Calculation of depreciation
Profit and loss account
Change in inventories of finished goods and work in progress (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
Value added 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
Tasks and structure of the chart of accounts
Chart of accounts and chart of accounts
Document organization
Meaning and types of documents
The books of financial accounting
Basic ledger, general ledger
Overview of the subledgers
Overview of common accounting programs
Master data maintenance
Open item accounting
Commercial arithmetic: Rule of three, calculating percentages, calculating interest
Bookings in the personnel area (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Wages, salaries
Advances, benefits in kind
Special allowances
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 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
Provisions/valuation of receivables
Closing in the main financial statement overview
Cost and activity accounting (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Tasks of cost and performance accounting
Basic concepts of KLR
Expenses - Income
Expenses - costs
Income - services
Imputed costs, tasks and types
Project work (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.
The course provides you with the necessary know-how for employment as a commercial and technical specialist, including job-related German language training, in order to achieve successful integration into the German labor market.
The course then provides an introduction to bookkeeping. You will master the competent handling of accounting processes. Everything is considered and explained in a practical way and in the context of the overall business operations of a company.
The course is aimed at people with little or outdated commercial knowledge who want to reorient themselves in the field of accounting or refresh their accounting knowledge.
The course is also aimed at specialists from the commercial and technical fields, taking into account an integrative component.
Employees with a sound basic knowledge of accounting are indispensable in today's working world and are in demand in companies of all sizes across all industries.
The course also provides you with work-related German language training to enable you to write business correspondence in accordance with current regulations and to communicate confidently both internally and externally.
Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.
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).