Professional qualification: Assistant Accountant

Carry out day-to-day accounting and payroll tasks, and prepare the year-end accounting and tax close.

Level
4
Duration
400 h (57 days)
Formats
Distanciel, Distanciel renforcé, Présentiel
Pass rate
100 %
Admission
Following an interview
RNCP
RNCP 37121 (TP-00382)

Prices

  • Distanciel : 1 950,00 € TTC
  • Distanciel renforcé : 2 820,00 € TTC

Prerequisites

  • Year 12 level (French première) or equivalent
  • BEP / CAP in accounting (French vocational qualifications)

Programme

CCP 1 – Carry out day-to-day accounting tasks

  • Basic knowledge of commercial law
  • Knowledge of tax law: VAT
  • Presentation rules for the main commercial documents
  • Recording commercial documents in the accounts
  • Fundamentals of banking regulations
  • Presentation rules for the main financial documents; recording banking documents in the accounts
  • Preparing and recording VAT returns
  • Checking and correcting accounts

CCP 2 – Carry out day-to-day payroll tasks

  • Social security regulations and employment law
  • Presentation rules for a payslip
  • Calculating all the components of a payslip
  • Social security, tax and accounting regulations
  • Calculation and presentation rules for social security returns
  • Processing and accounting rules
  • Calculating all the headings of the main social security returns

CCP 3 – Prepare the year-end accounting and tax close and calculate management indicators

  • Annual accounts and the adjustments required to close them
  • Current changes in tax regulations
  • Rules for tax adjustments and for recording corporation tax
  • Determining taxable profit and preparing the annual tax return
  • Preparing the annual tax returns
  • Calculating costs, margins and ratios
  • Providing useful indicators for managing the organisation
  • Collecting multi-year figures, processing them and presenting them with commentary

Office assistance fundamentals

  • Answering the telephone and operating a switchboard
  • Computer cleaning and maintenance
  • Tools of the practice enterprise (simulated training company)
  • Organising, indexing, filing, archiving and printing labels
  • French: common spelling and grammar pitfalls to avoid
  • Writing meeting minutes
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Stress management
  • Teamwork and remote working

Introduction to IT

  • Computer basics
  • The Windows environment
  • Browsing the Internet

Microsoft Word

  • Text formatting: creating a standard letter (table of contents, numbering…)
  • Page layout
  • Enhancing documents: inserting images, tables, charts and SmartArt diagrams; designing templates (letters, memos…)
  • Organising your work to save time
  • Performing mail merges and mailings
  • Creating long documents (reports, dissertations, studies…)
  • Using collaborative tools: working with others on the same document and tracking changes

Microsoft Excel

  • Creating tables
  • Excel calculation basics
  • Data management
  • Creating simple charts
  • Designing reliable templates
  • Intermediate, conditional and nested functions
  • Statistical functions: RANK, MODE, SMALL, LARGE
  • Text operations
  • PivotTables
  • Reporting and advanced charts

Outlook

  • Organising emails
  • Address book
  • Agenda
  • Tasks and contacts

PowerPoint

  • Hierarchical structuring of the presentation
  • Overall formatting of the presentation
  • Detailed formatting of the presentation
  • Inserting, editing and moving objects
  • Animations
  • Speaker handouts
  • Slide show delivery

Job search techniques

  • CV: content
  • CV: layout
  • Cover letter
  • Prospecting and pitch
  • TROIS database
  • Mock job interview
  • Job hunting by telephone

Exam preparation

  • Methodology for writing the professional portfolio (dossier professionnel)
  • Conditions of the titre professionnel assessment

Further studies

  • Progression to accounting associate, payroll administrator or audit/engagement manager in an accounting firm
  • With the DCG / DSCG (French higher accounting diplomas): chartered accountant or finance and administration director
  • Further training from bachelor's level (Bac+3) to master's level (Bac+5)

References

RNCP code no. 37121 · Certif Info code no. 99153 · CPF ID 244215 · NSF code 314t · ROME code M1203 · Formacode 32667 General accounting

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