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Certificates: Certificate "Fundamentals of Accounting"
DATEV certificate "DATEV financial accounting user" -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
DATEV-Anwender Finanzbuchführung (Eine Anmeldung über das Lernportal „DATEV Students online“ ist für die Zertifizierungsvorbereitung obligatorisch.) -
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: 8 Weeks
Accounting basics
Accounting basics (full-time approx. 2.5 days/part-time approx. 5 days)
Legal basics
Inventory, stocktaking, balance sheet
Document organization
Land register, general ledger, sub-ledgers
Chart of accounts and chart of accounts
Tasks and structure of the chart of accounts
Artificial intelligence (AI) in accounting (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)
AI as a digital assistant in commercial processes
Possible applications and limits of AI in accounting
Posting to inventory and profit and loss accounts (full-time approx. 5 days/part-time approx. 10 days)
Effects of inventory changes and business transactions on balance sheet items
Breakdown of the balance sheet into balance sheet accounts
Posting business transactions and closing balance sheet accounts
Simple and compound posting record
Opening and closing balance sheet account
Expenses and income
Profit and loss account as closing account of the profit and loss accounts
Introduction to the depreciation of depreciable assets (full-time approx. 0.5 days/part-time approx. 1 day)
Causes, effects, calculation and posting of depreciation
Effects on P&L and annual profit
Value added tax on purchases and sales (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Nature of sales tax (value added tax)
Value added tax as a transitory item
Accounting for sales tax and input tax
Private withdrawals and deposits (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Private withdrawals and private deposits at a glance
Postings via the private account
Closing the private account
Procurement and sales bookings (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Merchandise
Procurement costs, distribution costs
Returns, credit notes
Rebates, discounts and bonuses
Posting of selected business transactions (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time approx. 4 days)
Basics of open item accounting
Postings in the personnel area
Postings in the tangible assets area
Postings in the tax area
Year-end closing (full-time approx. 1.5 days/part-time approx. 3 days)
Preparatory closing entries
Posting inventory differences
Accrual of expenses and income
Project work (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Financial accounting with DATEV
Client master data (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Creation of a new client
Importing, saving and managing 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
Creating and managing current accounts
Account assignment of sample documents according to SKR03 or SKR04
Posting (full-time approx. 6 days/part-time approx. 12 days)
Posting according to the DATEV posting logic
Posting digital documents
Posting with automatic accounts and tax keys
Working with posting batches, batch management and fixing
Dialog postings and batch postings
Allocation and split postings
Reversal postings / general reversal in DATEV
Posting intra-community deliveries and acquisitions
Posting for third country transactions
Posting by company code (incoming and outgoing invoices, bank, cash register)
Posting lists and error control
Overview of the invoice automation service (ASR) and bank automation service (ASB)
Financial accounting evaluations (full-time approx. 2 days/part-time 4 days)
Primanota and journal
Totals and balances list
Open item management (posting invoices and payments, OP clearing)
Advance sales tax return
Small business regulation (§ 19 UStG) and special reporting procedure (§ 19a UStG)
Summary report (ZM)
Business analyses (BWA)
Controlling report
AI-supported analysis of evaluations
Year-end closing (full-time approx. 3 days/part-time approx. 6 days)
Closing entries
Balance sheet and profit and loss account
Statement of fixed assets
Annual financial statement evaluations
Printing and providing evaluations
Depreciation options: declining balance depreciation, special depreciation rules for electric vehicles
AI-supported preparation, documentation and quality assurance in the annual financial statement process
Special features (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Integration with wages and salaries
Integration with asset accounting (ANLAG)
Interfaces and data transfer
Digital collaboration between law firm and client (full-time approx. 1 day/part-time approx. 2 days)
Overview of DATEV Unternehmen online in financial accounting
Setting up document posting
Posting digital receipts and posting payments
Evaluations in accounting
Overview of e-invoicing (ASR and ASB)
MyDATEV Kanzlei at a glance
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 a systematic introduction to bookkeeping and you will then be able to competently handle accounting processes. Everything is considered and explained in a practical way and in the context of the overall business operations of a company.
You will also be given a systematic introduction to financial accounting with DATEV. You will learn how to securely record, digitally process and evaluate accounting transactions and how to use central DATEV functions in your everyday work.
The course is aimed at anyone who would like to acquire accounting knowledge or refresh their knowledge in order to subsequently work as a user or administrator in financial accounting.
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 addition of DATEV financial software will also improve your prospects on the job market: 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).