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Certificates: Certificate "Accounting consultant with job-related German language support"
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Additional Certificates: Certificate "Vocational German language support for the commercial/technical sector"
Certificate "Fundamentals of Accounting"
DATEV certificate "DATEV financial accounting user"
DATEV training partner certificate of attendance
Certificate "Fundamentals of Controlling"
Certificate "Controlling practice with DATEV"
Certificate "Balance sheet accounting with DATEV" -
Examination: Practical project work with final presentations
Certification exam for vocational German language support
DATEV user financial accounting -
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: 28 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
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
Creating and managing 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 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 approx. 6 days)
Primanota and journal
Totals and balances list
Open item management (posting invoices, posting payments)
Advance sales tax returns
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
Statement of fixed assets
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)
Controlling basics
Introduction to controlling (approx. 1.5 days)
Controlling as part of the management process
Overview of the various controlling instruments and methods
Strategic and operational controlling
Cost accounting and cost management (approx. 3.5 days)
Introduction to cost and activity accounting
Cost element accounting
Cost center accounting
Cost unit accounting
Cost accounting systems (approx. 3 days)
Actual, normal and planned cost accounting
Partial and full cost accounting
Activity-based costing
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Corporate planning and budgeting (approx. 4 days)
budget planning
Liquidity planning
investment planning
Key figures and key figure systems (approx. 3 days)
Contribution margin
Balanced scorecard
Reporting (approx. 2 days)
reporting
BWA
Data protection in controlling
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Controlling practice with DATEV
Cost accounting with DATEV (approx. 7 days)
Creation of basic data
Creation of the cost center plan
Setting up the evaluations
Adaptation of cost accounting to operational requirements
Account allocations
Internal activity allocations and apportionments
Entering and processing batches
Displaying and printing evaluations
Setting up evaluation packages
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
Business planning with DATEV (approx. 5 days)
Overview and functionality of DATEV
Basics of planning calculation
Planning strategies - setting up a planning and control system with integrated profit and liquidity planning
General planning approaches
Detailed planning options using detailed objects
Investment planning (investment and financing)
Program links
Target/actual comparison and DATEV controlling report
Evaluations: Brief overview and standard evaluations as well as planning report
Analysis and planning in accounting (approx. 5 days)
The monthly analysis
Profit analysis: comparison with previous year, target/actual comparison, industry comparison, time series presentation for trend statements
Liquidity analysis: static liquidity, withdrawal behavior, payment habits, account management, cash flow statement with cash flow calculation
Use and origin of funds
Special solutions and occasions
Determination of debt servicing capacity
Individual BWA (adaptation of the standard BWA)
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Balance sheet accounting with DATEV
National accounting (HGB) (approx. 10 days)
Interim and annual financial statements and management report
The monthly/annual financial statements: Balance sheet and income statement
Overview of annual financial statements and P&L
Fundamentals of tax law, commercial law and company law
Postings required to prepare for accounting with DATEV
Accounting and valuation - asset accounting and annual financial statements with DATEV
Creating a company report/balance sheet report with DATEV
Artificial intelligence (AI) in the work process
Presentation of specific AI technologies
and possible applications in the professional environment
International Accounting (IAS/IFRS) (approx. 7 days)
Why international accounting?
The shortcomings of the HGB Investor protection and the principle of prudence
Differences between HGB/IAS
The first introduction in 1998 and the extended introduction in 2005 - The ten-point program
Structure of the IAS and its bodies: conception and implementation
Fair value (IFRS 13) with DATEV
Accounting for fixed assets (IAS 16) with DATEV
Investment property - Investment property (IAS 40) with DATEV
Leasing (IFRS 16) with DATEV
Intangible assets and development costs (IAS 38) with DATEV
Financial assets and liabilities (IAS 37) with DATEV
Segment reporting and cash flow statement - Statement of comprehensive income with DATEV
Project work (approx. 3 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible. The course content is updated regularly.
After the course, you will be able to competently take over the organization of operational finance and accounting. You will be proficient in using the DATEV program and also have the necessary specialist knowledge to strategically plan, monitor and optimize performance processes in the company.
The course also includes work-related German language support. Here you will learn how to draft business correspondence in accordance with current regulations and how to communicate confidently both internally and externally. The theoretical content from the most common business fields is supplemented by language components to ensure integration into the German job market.
The course is aimed at employees from corporate finance and accounting, specialists from tax consulting and auditing firms and from controlling, taking into account an integrative part.
As an accounting officer, you will support and advise the management, reconcile internal and external processes and act as a competent point of contact for external partners such as auditors. This opens up a wide range of career prospects in all sectors, especially in larger companies, where you can support group accounting in the future. The course will also provide you with work-related German language skills so that you can write business correspondence in accordance with current regulations and communicate confidently both internally and externally.
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).