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Certificates: Certificate "Accounting Consultant"
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Additional Certificates: 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"
Certified Business Manager" certificate -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
DATEV-Anwender Finanzbuchführung (Eine Anmeldung über das Lernportal „DATEV Students online“ ist für die Zertifizierungsvorbereitung obligatorisch.)
Certified Business Manager:in -
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: 24 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)
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
Structure of 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
Management and corporate planning
Management (approx. 1 day)
Hierarchy levels
Management methods
Planning horizons
Management functions
Management control loop
Management instruments
Objectives, methods and instruments of business plan preparation (approx. 3 days)
Basics of business plan preparation
Analysis and planning tools (SWOT analysis, scenario analysis, portfolio analysis,
creativity techniques)
Use of AI for brainstorming and structuring business models
AI-supported creation and revision of business plan components
Contract law (approx. 1 day)
Declarations of intent
Warranty and guarantee
Types of contract and their disruptions
Law on contractual defects (subsequent performance, withdrawal, purchase price reduction, compensation)
General terms and conditions (AGB)
Commercial and company law (approx. 1 day)
Types of merchants
company forms
Commercial practices
Special features of commercial law
Commercial register and publicity
Introduction to insolvency law
Project planning (approx. 0.5 days)
basics
Resource planning
Planning steps
Errors in project planning
Environment analysis (approx. 0.5 days)
Company analysis
Industry analysis
Location analysis
Competition analysis
Use of AI to support market and competition analyses
Marketing (approx. 3 days)
Market analysis and market segmentation
Basics of market research
Instruments of the marketing mix
Advertising and supporting instruments
Use of AI to develop marketing ideas and address target groups
AI-supported creation of marketing content
Financial planning (approx. 1 day)
Overview of
Instruments
Planning investment calculation (approx. 2 days)
Basics
Investment calculation methods
Limits and problems of capital budgeting methods
Key figures
Financial planning (approx. 1 day)
Basics
Equity and debt financing
External and internal financing
Key figures
Controlling (approx. 1 day)
Tasks and objectives of controlling
Areas of controlling
Controlling instruments
Project work, certification preparation and certification examination (approx. 5 days)
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.
You will also know how different business plans for projects and companies are created from an economic perspective and apply the most important economic planning and marketing tools. You use artificial intelligence specifically to support analysis and planning processes and critically evaluate their results. You also have knowledge of contract law and are familiar with the content of commercial and company law as well as the basics of financial planning.
The course is aimed at employees from corporate finance and accounting, specialists from tax consulting and auditing firms and from controlling.
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 for you in all sectors, especially in larger companies where you can support group accounting in the future.
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).