The British Academy for Training and Development offers a Diploma in Accounting, which is an academic specialization that provides certification for students who have completed their studies in accounting from a college, university, or business school. The Accounting Diploma involves studying and analyzing financial reports, determining profit and loss over a specific period, and understanding its role in clarifying the value and nature of the resources available to a company, as well as the means used to finance these resources and the potential impacts of their use. The diploma includes applying knowledge related to preparing reports and analyzing financial information for management, auditing financial records, providing advice on tax matters, conducting internal audits, and maintaining transaction recording systems.

Target Audience for the Short Professional Diploma in Accounting:

• All company and institution managers.
• All employees in institutional and corporate management.
• Accountants in all government institutions and private companies.
• Individuals responsible for management accounting in companies.
• Anyone interested in learning a comprehensive accounting program.
• Graduates and students of economics, finance, and banking faculties.

Objectives of the Short Professional Diploma in Accounting:

The British Academy for Training and Development aims to achieve several important objectives through the Accounting Diploma, including:

• Equipping participants with the skills to prepare journal entries, ensuring their accuracy and approval.
• Providing participants with sufficient experience in supervising and controlling all documents issued from accounting offices.
• Implementing all procedures related to financial matters by senior management.
• Equipping participants with adequate expertise in managing financial instruments of all kinds.
• Introducing participants to essential skills in budgeting and financial planning.
• Providing participants with experience in negotiating contracts related to financial instruments and their execution mechanisms.
• Applying the principles of tax accounting and the procedures followed in the Income Tax Department, studying the tax system and its applications.
• Preparing cost accounts with an analysis of cost elements to determine the unit cost of the final product (goods or services), evaluating inventory, and using cost data for planning, control, and decision-making.
• Studying auditing in both the public and private sectors according to internationally recognized auditing standards.

• Understanding the key principles and assumptions of accounting.
• Knowledge of the entire accounting cycle in detail.
• Double entry – Ledger account – Trial balance – Financial statements.
• Preparing financial statements for companies.
• Familiarity with the objectives of International Accounting Standard 1 regarding the presentation of financial statements.
• Understanding the structure and contents of financial statements.
• Preparing financial statements for companies according to international accounting standards.
• Designing the documentation cycle for business companies.
• Sales invoices.
• Cash and check receipts – Cash and check disbursements.
• Inventory addition and disbursement orders.
• Designing the bookkeeping cycle using the American method.
• Designing the bookkeeping cycle using the French method.
• Subsidiary journals.
• Subsidiary ledger accounts.
• General ledger account.
• General journal.
• Analyzing and interpreting financial statements.
• Horizontal analysis.
• Vertical analysis.
• Analysis using financial ratios.
• Understanding the types of taxes applied and how to prepare tax reports.
• Sales tax.
• Withholding tax.
• Income tax.
• Preparing inventory adjustments for certain financial transactions.
• Inventory adjustments for nominal accounts – expenses and revenues.
• Inventory adjustments for the stock account under periodic and perpetual inventory methods.
• Bank reconciliations.
• Cash reconciliations.
• Adjustments for fixed assets ("depreciation, asset sales, and re-evaluation of the asset's useful life").