Accounting as information system
Track Service Management
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Beginner
Language English

About this Course

Learn how accounting functions as a system to record, process, and communicate financial data.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Understanding The Basics of Accounting
  • History and Roles of Accounting
  • Accounting in Intangible Areas of Business
  • Accounting in Ancient Times
  • Modern Accounting
  • Functions, Characteristics and Objectives of Accounting
  • Accounting Ethics
  • Introduction to Bookkeeping
  • Benefits of Bookkeeping
  • Things to Look Out for in Bookkeeping
  • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
  • Best Accounting Practices
  • Role of A Charted Accountant
  • 4 Qualitative Characteristics of Financial Statements
  • Introduction
  • Types of bookkeeping
  • Differences in Bookkeeping versus Accounting
  • Sub-fields of accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Cost Accounting
  • Human Resource Accounting
  • Forensic Accounting
  • User of Accounting Information
  • Double Entry System
  • Features of the Double Entry System
  • Advantages and disadvantages of the Double Entry System
  • Understanding Asset, Liability and Capital
  • Asset, Liability and Capital Numerical Examples
  • The Elements of Financial Statements
  • Recognition for Particular Elements
  • The Golden Rules of Debit and Credit
  • Understanding a Transaction in Accounting Terms
  • Rules for Determining Cash or Credit Transaction
  • Kinds of Transaction
  • Source Documents
  • Types of Accounts
  • Understanding Journal
  • Aspects of Journal
  • Basic Rules of Entering Transactions into the Journal
  • Example of A Journal
  • Types of Journals
  • Understanding Ledger
  • Example of A Ledger
  • Balancing the Ledger
  • The Journal and Ledger entail
  • Five-column schedule
  • Characteristics of a Trial Balance
  • Examples of a Trial Balance
  • Errors that are disclosed by a Trial Balance
  • Suspense Account
  • Closing Stock
  • Returns Inwards and Returns Outwards
  • Accounting Principles
  • Accounting Concepts and Conventions
  • Business Entity Concept Advantages and Disadvantages
  • Money Measurement Concept
  • Going Concern Concept
  • Factors in Deciding Going Concern
  • Factors in Deciding Going Concern
  • Historical Cost Concept
  • Realization Concept
  • Accounting Concepts & Conventions
  • Accrual Concept
  • Accrual Concept
  • Periodicity Concept
  • Periodicity Concept
  • Consistency Concept
  • Consistency Concept
  • Prudence Concept
  • Prudence Concept
  • Materiality Concept
  • Materiality Concept
  • Matching Concept
  • Matching Concept
  • Full Disclosure
  • Full Disclosure
  • Substance Over Form
  • Substance Over Form
  • Source Documents
  • Invoice
  • Credit Notes
  • Vouchers Notes
  • Bank Reconciliation Statement
  • Inventory in Accounting
  • Accounting Standard - Valuation of Inventories
  • NRV and NPV
  • NRV and NPV
  • Cost of Inventories
  • Cost of Purchase Numerical Example
  • Cost of Purchase Numerical Example
  • Cost of Conversion
  • Cost of Conversion
  • Production Overheads
  • Production Overheads
  • Cost Excluded from Inventories
  • Cost Formulas
  • Techniques for the Measurement of Cost
  • Understanding Payroll
  • Payroll Management
  • Elements of a Payroll Management System / Employee Information
  • Work Timing Information / Salary / Wage Information
  • Information on Deductions / Information on Benefits,
  • Payroll Taxes / Information on Benefits
  • Understanding TDS
  • Provident Fund
  • Conducting Payroll Management
  • What is Accounting Report?
  • Balance sheet
  • Own
  • Owes
  • Income Statement
  • Operating Section
  • Non-operating Section
  • Cash Flow Statement
  • Cash from Operating Activities
  • Cash from Investing Activities
  • Cash from Financing Activities
  • Introduction to Final Account
  • Preparation of Trial Balance
  • Trading Account
  • Balancing Trading Account
  • Preparing Profit and Loss Account
  • Profit and Loss Account Continued
  • Profit and Loss Account Continued
  • The Balance Sheet
  • Balance Sheets Formats
  • Balance Sheets Formats
  • Adjustments in Balance Sheets
  • Introduction to Tally
  • What is Tally?
  • Versions of Tally
  • Benefits of Tally
  • Data Reliability and Security
  • Payroll Management
  • Management in the Banking Sector
  • Regulation of Data Across Geographical Location
  • Ease of maintaining a Budget
  • Simple Tax Returns Filing
  • Audit Tool for Compliance
  • Remote Access of Data
  • Quick Access to Documents
  • Case Study-SM Process Plant Pvt Ltd
  • Features of Tally
  • Accounting Features in Tally
  • Screen Guide
  • Case Study - SM Process Plant Pvt Ltd
  • Introduction to GST
  • Central Goods and Services Tax
  • State Goods and Services Tax
  • Integrated Goods and Services Tax
  • Goods and services which are exempt from the GST
  • Breakdown of GST
  • GST for Business
  • GST Criteria
  • Tax Deducted at Source
  • Tax Collected at Source
  • GST Return Filing
  • Types of GST Return Forms
  • Importance of business reports
  • Provides an in-depth view of the business
  • Uncover products in high demand
  • Helps solve an existing issue
  • Unleashes trends
  • Bookkeeping and accounting softwares
  • Using Tally Prime: Downloading Tally Prime
  • Using Tally Prime: Creating a company
  • Using Tally Prime: Creating a ledger
  • History of Tally
  • Tally Products
  • Enterprise resource planning software
  • Types of reports in Tally ERP
  • Using Tally Prime: Recording sales and purchases
  • GAAP – Best Practices
  • Case Study-(Enron Corporation)
  • Revenue Recognition
  • Mark to Market
  • Special Purpose Entities
  • Financial Audit
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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