Topics covered in SACOB Short Courses

Here is a list of the topics covered in our SACOB Short Courses, if you are looking for a topic its most likely covered in our short courses list:

A brief history of accounting

A broad overview of South Africa’s business operations

A case study – bookkeeping to trial balance

A company’s constitution

A definition of written communication

Absorption and marginal costing

Absorption costing

Abstaining a sca

Accident theory

Account for liabilities, revenue and expenses

Account for standard costs

Accounting for depreciation

Accounting concepts and principles

Accounting for asset disposal

Accounting for associates

Accounting for Branches

Accounting for cash

Accounting for close corporations

Accounting for companies

Accounting for labour

Accounting for management

Accounting for material and labour costs

Accounting for materials

Accounting for non-current assets

Accounting for overheads

Accounting for payroll

Accounting for payroll for wages

Accounting for sales tax

Accounting for taxation

Accounting for the perpetual inventory system

Accounting for VAT

Accounting policies, changes in accounting estimates and errors

Accounting systems

Accounting theory

Accounting – the language of business

Accounts receivable and cash

Accruals and prepayments

Accruals and prepayments, receivables and irrecoverable debts

Achieving personal success and meaning in life

Acquisitions and mergers versus other growth strategies

Acquisitions and payments cycle

Acronyms

Active and passive voice

Active labour market policies

Activities, techniques and methods

Activity based costing

Activity-based costing (ABC)

Adjustment of trading profits/losses for tax purposes

Adjustments for inventory

Administration of deceased estates

Administration of estates

Administration of insolvent estates

Administration, winding up, purchase of own shares

Administrative office systems

Advanced Customer Functions

Advanced Functions in the Change Menu

Advanced Functions in the File Menu

Advanced Functions in the General Ledger

Advanced Functions in the Utility Menu

Advanced receivables risk analysis

Advanced Supplier Functions

Advanced trade credit evaluation

Advertising

Agency

Agency law

Aligning the HR strategy with the business

Aligning the HR strategy with the business strategy

Allowable deductions

Allowance for credit losses and settlement discount granted

Allowing for inflation and taxation

Alternative costing principles

Alternative dispute resolution

Alternative legal systems and sources of law

Alternative models and practices

Alternative views of performance measurement and management

Amalgamations and restructuring

An independent review engagement is conducted in terms of ISRE 2400

An introduction to final accounts

An introduction to inheritance tax

An introduction to management

An introduction to VAT

An introduction to year-end procedures

An understanding of the legal requirements relating to auditing is demonstrated

Analyse the flow of national income

Analysing and interpreting financial statements

Analysis and interpretation of data

Analysis and interpretation of financial statements (Ratios)

Analytical procedures and estimates

Angles and triangles

Annual return

Anti-corruption strategy

Antonyms

Applicable commercial law

Application of option pricing theory in investment decisions

Applications and international standards convergence

Applications of performance measurement

Apply the laws of advantage to trade

Apportionment of overheads

Approaches to corporate govenance

Archiving of documents

Are you sure you’re understood?

arket segmentation, targeting, positioning

Artificial intelligence and expert systems

Aspects of costs and revenue

Assessable trading income

Assessing creditworthiness and granting credit

Assessing your management potential

Asset valuation and changing prices

Assets, liabilities and the accounting equation

Associates

Associates and joint ventures

Attributes of strategic HRM

Audit and other assurance engagements

Audit appointment

Audit planning

Audit planning and documentation

Audit procedures and sampling

Audit regulation

Audit review and finalisation

Audit risk

Audit-related services and other assurance services

Audit: analytical review

Auditors’ responsibilities

Authorising and making payments

Auto Setup

Averages

Background and perspective on corporate governance

Bad debts and allowances for receivables

Balance of payments equilibrium

Balance sheet reconciliations

Bank reconciliation

Bank reconciliations

Banking and bank accounts

Banking monies received

Banks Act, 1996

Barriers to effective communication

Basic bookkeeping of a club

Basic business concepts for the prospective entrepreneur

Basic calculations involving negative numbers

Basic calculations involving positive numbers

Basic communication concepts

Basic concepts in bookkeeping and accounting

Basic concepts in marketing management

Basic concepts in the valuation of assets

Basic contract law

Basic investment appraisal

Basic law of contract

Basic law of negotiable instruments

Basic management accounting techniques

Basic mathematical operators

Basic mathematical techniques

Basic office etiquette

Basic PC concepts

Basic Principles of Communication Theory

Basic principles of insurance

Basic principles of marketing theory, the field of Marketing

Basic simplification rules of algebra

Basic variance analysis

Basic workings with negative numbers

Basics of e-mail

Basics of faxing

Basis of assessments, NICs for self-employed

Battling burnout: five survival tips

BCEA – Duties of the employer

BCEA – Leave types and accumulation

BCEA – Normal time and overtime

BCEA – Recording and validating employee records

BeeZed Construction Services (BZCS) (Case study)

Behavioural aspects of standard costing

Benchmarking

Boards and Directors

Borrowing and loan capital

Breach of contract

Break-even analyses

Breakeven analysis and limiting factor analysis

Budget preparation

Budgetary systems

Budgeting

Budgeting and standard costing

Budgeting: performance evaluation

Budgets

Budgets and implement budgetary controls

Business accountability and transparency

Business area

Business correspondence

Business entities and the law

Business environment

Business in South Africa

Business organisation and accounting

Business Organisation, structure and strategy

Business Organisations and their stakeholders

Business ownership

Business process change

Business reliefs

Business reorganisation

Business report writing

Business requirements and computer selection

Business rescue regime

Business strategy

Business strategy and strategy development

Business strategy as an output and input

Business structure, IT developments and other environmental and ethical issues

Business transactions and documentation

Business valuations

Calculating Area and Volume

Calculating the tax payable by businesses

Calculation of ‘Cash paid to suppliers and employees’

Calculation of ‘Cash receipts from customers’

Calculation of taxation for individual employees

Capital allowances

Capital expenditure budgeting

Capital gains tax

Capital investment appraisal

Capital maintenance and dividend law

Capital receipts vs. current income for a club

Capital structure

Capital transactions and financial instruments

Capturing your audience’s attention with effective headings, layout and graphical material

Career anchors

Career management

Career patterns

Career support

Cash and bank

Cash and cash flows

Cash and treasury management

Cash Book Processing

Cash budget

Cash budgeting and forecasting

Cash flow and your business

Cash flow forecasts

Cash flow statements

Cash forecasting techniques

Cash management

Cash management and the treasury function

Categories of communication

Categories of taxpayers – companies, close corporations, individuals, partnerships, special categories of taxpayers, and residents and non-residents

CeeCee – retail fashion company (Case study)

Centralisation vs. decentralisation

Centralised vs. decentralised filing

Certain specialised systems

Changes in group structures

Changing business environment and external factors

Changing role of employees

Characteristics of financial information

Characteristics of management accounting

Chargeable gains for companies

Chargeable gains: additional aspects

Chargeable gains: an outline

Chargeable gains: reliefs

Chattels and the principal private residence

Classification of information in an office environment

Close companies and investment companies

Close corporation theory

Closing transfers

Code of ethics and conduct

Codes of conduct and ethics

COID registration

Collection and presentation of data

Collection of receivables

Collective bargaining

Commercial arbitration

Communication

Communication in the Business Organisation

Communication processes

Commutative, Associative and Distributive Laws

Companies Act

Companies Theory

Company directors and other company officers

Company finance

Company formation

Company meetings and resolutions

Company situation analysis

Comparatives

Compare and contrast market, planned and mixed economies

Compare the production of one country with another

Compensation management

Competition, market failures, and government

Competition, market failures, and government intervention

Competitive environment

Competitor analysis

Competitors and customers

Completing ledger accounts and financial statements

Completing payslips

Completing tax returns

Completion of corporation tax return

Complex groups

Compounding and discounting

Compounding, discounting and Net Present Values

Computation of CGT, completion of tax return

Computation of corporation tax liability

Computer and digital networks

Computer disaster planning

Computerised payroll

Computing chargeable gains

Computing corporation tax payable

Computing taxable total profits

Computing the corporation tax liability

Computing trading income

Concepts of databases

Concord

Confidentiality

Conflicting stakeholder interests

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income

Consolidated statement of financial position

Constitution of a company

Constraints on financial strategy

Consumer behaviour and consumerism, buyer Behaviour

Consumer credit

Consumer risk evaluation

Consumerism

Contemporary management issues

Context of strategic decisions

Continuing and discontinued interests

Continuous learning

Contract

Contract accounting

Contract of agency

Contract of employment

Contract of insurance

Contract of lease

Contract of partnership

Contract of sale

Contract of suretyship

Contracts for purchase and sale, letting and hiring, lease and surety ship, transfer and acquisition of ownership, restraint of trade, Credit Agreements Act

Contracts for the international sale of goods

Control

Control Accounts

Control accounts

Control Accounts (accounts receivable and accounts payable)

Control accounts and the correction of errors

Control as a management function

Control of investment projects

Control Systems

Control, security and audit

Controlling

Controlling information resources

Conversions between related units in different measuring systems

Converting between fractions, decimals, percentages

Converting information from one form into another

Core elements of effective functioning of an organisation

Corporate accounting

Corporate diversification strategies

Corporate finance

Corporate governance

Corporate governance and anti-corruption

Corporate governance and social responsibility

Corporate governance and strategy

Corporate governance in South Africa

Corporate governance practice and reporting

Corporate governance vs. governance

Corporate personality as applied to business entities

Corporate social responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Corporate strategy selection

Corporation tax administration

Corporations and legal personality

Correction of errors

Correlation and linear regression

Corruption practices

Cost analysis

Cost behaviour

Cost bookkeeping

Cost classification

Cost classification and terminology

Cost management

Cost management techniques

Cost of capital

Cost of goods sold and inventories

Cost planning

Cost units, cost classification and profit reporting

Cost volume profit (CVP) analysis

Cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis

Cost-Volume-Profit analyses (break-even)

Costing

Costing a product

Costs of goods sold and the treatment of inventories

Court procedure

Courts of law

Creating a New Company

Creating and maintaining customer accounts

Creating and maintaining general ledger accounts

Creating and maintaining inventory

Creating and maintaining supplier accounts

Creating and setting up a company in Pastel Partner V11

Creative problem solving, decision making and information management

Credit agreements

Credit agreements act and usury act

Credit agreements and the national credit act

Credit in the economy

Credit insurance

Credit limits

Credit management

Credit management control measurements

Credit notes

Credit policy

Credit terms and channels of distribution

Creditors reconciliation

Credits

Criteria, concepts, and techniques used to assess the performance of the economy

Cross cultural communication

Culture

Current developments

Current developments, issues and trends

Current issues

Curriculum Vitae

Customer analysis

Customer Processing

Customer processing

Customer service

Data analysis

Data and information

Data classification

Data collection

Data in graphical forms

Database systems

DCF techniques of investment appraisal

Dealing with complaints

Dealing with conflict

Debits

Debt finance

Decision making 1 – cost behaviour

Decision making 2 – profit maximisation

Decision making and investment appraisal

Decision support systems (DSS)

Decision trees

Decision-making tools and techniques

Default Topic

Define and discuss types of costs

Define economies and diseconomies of scale

Define the measures of economic output

Define the nature of economic issues

Define the reasons for disparities in living standards between developed and developing countries

Defining assets

Defining cash transactions

Defining economics

Defining expenses

Defining income

Defining interest

Defining liabilities

Defining owners equity

Defining profit

Defining proprietary accounts

Defining the general ledger

Defining the money market

Defining ‘space’

Defining ‘the law’

Definition of an unfair labour practice

Definition of Credit

Definition of marketing

Definition of organisational structure

Definition of strategic HRM

Delegation of authority

Demand and supply

Demand for labour

Demand for money

Demotion

Departmental accounts

Departmentalisation

Depreciation

Depreciation calculations

Describe and evaluate the aims of government

Describe and evaluate the structure of the balance of payments

Describe controls on level of investment

Describe exports and imports between countries

Describe the benefits of international specialisation

Describe the functions and types of money

Describe the multiplier effect

Describe the principles of profit maximisation

Describe the relationship between production volume and price, and perfectly competitive and monopolistic markets

Describe the types of markets

Descriptive statistics

Designing an organisational structure

Determinants of demand

Determinants of supply

Developing superior interpersonal skills

Developing your mind power and PMA (positive mental attitude)

Developing your personal strategic life-plan

Development of human resources

Developments in financial reporting

Developments in marketing

Developments in non-financial reporting

Different approaches to ethical decision making

Different business forms

Different economic systems

Different investment vehicles

Differentiation strategies

Diminutives

Direct and Indirect speech

Direct marketing, sales promotion, publicity, integrated marketing communication

Direct vs. indirect costs

Directions and methods of growth

Directors and secretaries

Disaster issues

Discharge of contract

Discipline, dismissal, unfair labour practices, retrenchment, mergers and transfers.

Disclosure of depreciable assets

Discount rates

Discounted cash flow techniques and the use of free cash flows

Discuss disturbances in the economy

Discuss elasticity of demand and supply

Discuss equilibrium under perfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition

Discuss fiscal policy and Government debt

Discuss government economic objectives

Discuss living standards and the concept of growth

Discuss reasons for failure in market economies

Discuss resource allocation

Discuss specialisation

Discuss the causes and effects of inflation

Discuss the causes and effects of unemployment

Discuss the consumer price index (CPI)

Discuss the dynamic patterns and levels of employment

Discuss the key areas of macroeconomics relative to the South African economy

Discuss the key areas of microeconomics relative to the South African economy

Discuss the propensities to save and consume

Discuss the relationship between free trade and protectionism

Discuss the role of International Financial Institutions, International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Discuss the role of Trade Unions

Discuss the size and structure of populations in developed and developing economies

Discuss the types of taxation operant in South Africa

Dispersion

Dispute management

Dispute resolution

Distinguish between different types of firms

Distinguish between the types of employment

Distinguish economic decisions

Distribution

Distribution management. the distribution decision

Diversification

Diversity and equal oppertunities

Dividend decision

Dividend policy

Dividend policy in multinationals and transfer pricing

Divisional performance and transfer pricing issues

Divisional performance evaluation theory

Divisional performance measures

Divisions and sub-divisions of the law

Donations tax

Double Entry

E-business

E-marketing

Earnings per share

Economic efficiency

Economic growth

Economic order quantity

Economic, political and legal systems

Edit Master files

Editing written material

Efiling

Electronic file management

Emergencies

EMP201 returns

Employee benefits

Employee contributions to pension funds and retirement annuity funds

Employee induction and orientation

Employee placement

Employee records administration

Employee remuneration contract terms

Employee wellness: A proactive and holistic approach

Employees’ tax

Employment contract

Employment equity

Employment income

Employment income: additional aspects

Employment interview

Employment protection

Employment relations

Endowment policies

Enforcement

English comprehension

Enterprise performance management

Entrepreneurship and small business management in perspective

Environmental accounting

Environmental analysis

Environmental and social reporting

Environmental costing

Environmental issues

Equations

Equilibrium in the labour market

Equitable distribution of income

Equity finance

Essential facts about salaries and wages

Establishing contractual obligations

Estate duty

Ethical and professional standards

Ethical considerations

Ethical contract

Ethical guidelines

Ethical issues in financial management

Ethics

Ethics and morals in business

Ethics defined

Ethics in taxation and the Tax Practitioner

Evaluate different economic systems

Evaluate the factors and policies that affect population growth

Evaluating strategic options

Evaluation and review

Evaluation and review: matters relating to specific accounting issues

Events after the reporting period

Events management

Evidence

Exchange and circular flow

Execution

Executors accounts

Exempt income

Exemptions and reliefs

Expected value theory

Expenses

Explain booms and recessions

Explain economic, normal and abnormal profits

Explain exchange rates and their fluctuation, exchange control

Explain how markets and prices interact

Explain the relationship between market prices and quantities, and supply and demand

Explain the relationship between population dynamics and other economic behaviours

Explain the uses and limitations of national GDP statistics

Exponents and Roots

Export credit

Export terms of sales and delivery

Expressing one number as a percentage of another

Extended trial balance

External audit

Extracting and summarising key information

Factoring

Factorising an algebraic expression

Failure to re-employ or re-instate in terms of an agreement

File management (paper-based)

Filing systems and records management

Filing – the job most people love to hate

Finance

Financial analysis

Financial assets and liabilities

Financial control systems

Financial instruments

Financial instruments – IFRS

Financial management and financial objectives

Financial markets and institutions

Financial reconstruction

Financial reporting framework

Financial risk management

Financial statements and financial information to management and stakeholders

Financial statements of a close corporation

Financial statements of a sole proprietorship

Financial statements of a sole trader

Financial strategies

Financial strategy formulation

Financial systems 1 – functions of the financial system

Financial systems 2 – domestic institutions and markets

Financial systems 3 – foreign exchange markets

Financing mergers and acquisitions

Financing of small and medium-sized enterprises

Finding a missing figure

Finding equilibrium

Fiscal policy

Five ways to add some fun to your workday

Fixed and variable costs (cost behaviour)

Fixed assets and asset disposal

Fixed vs. variable costs

Flexibility in the SA labour market

Flexible budgeting

Flexible budgets

Forecasting

Forecasting and analysis

Forecasting cash flows

Forecasting: Time series

Foreign currency risk

Foreign currency transactions and entities

Foreign currency translation

Foreign exchange

Forensic audits

Formal and informal communication

Forming an audit judgement

Forms of business enterprises in South Africa

Forms of Credit

Forms of credit in South Africa

Forms of ownership

Formulae and equations

Foundations of management

Fraudulent behaviour

Free market economy

Free trade

Frequently encountered problems

Fringe benefits

Fringe benefits and allowances

From trial balance to financial statements

Full employment

Functions and practice of financial institutions

Functions of financial institutions in South Africa

Functions of management

Further aspects of investment decision making

Further aspects of VAT

Further performance management

Further variance analysis

Gearing and capital structure

General environment

General ledger account types

General ledger accounts for partnership

General principles of taxation

Generic strategies

Global strategies

Goals of organisations and their stakeholders

Goals of the business

Good security habits

Governance and regulation

Graphical illustration of data

Gross earnings vs taxable earnings

Gross earnings vs. taxable earnings

Gross income

Group audits and transnational audits

Group financial statements

Group Financial statements (elementary)

Group statements of cash flows

Groups

Groups and consortia

Growth strategies

Handling mail

Handling visitors

Hardware: input, processing and output devices

High-low method

History and origins

HIV/AIDS: Managing HIV/AIDS in the workplace

Holland’s theory

Homonyms

Homophones

How does the VAT system work?

How interest and interest rates really work

How to buy office supplies

How to expand brackets

How to improve your self-image and self-esteem

How to motivate and communicate effectively

How to register as a VAT vendor

HRM vs. Management of people

Human Resource Development legislation

Human resource development within an organisation

Human resource management

Human Resource Management defined

Human resource planning

Human resource practices

Human resources strategy selectio

IAS 12: Income taxes

IAS 17: Leases

IAS1 – Presentation of financial statements

Identify the factors of production

Identify the factors of wage determination

Identifying and preventing fraud

Identifying office supplies

IFRS for SMME’s

Impact of environmental issues on corporate objectives and governance

Impact of financing on investment decisions and adjusted present values

Impairment of assets

Implementation

Implementation and control

Implementation and planning

Implementing change

Implementing strategy, core competencies, re-engineering and structure

Implementing strategy: culture and leadership

Implications for Close Corporations

Important business calculations

Improved understanding of the Principles of Management Theory

Improving processes

Income and expenditure accounts

Income elasticity of demand

Income from property

Income tax administration

Income tax liability

Income taxes

Incomplete accounting records

Incomplete records

Incorporating additional payroll creditors

Index numbers

Individual differences and perceptions

Individuals and groups in the organisation, motivation

Individuals, groups and teams

Industry and competitor analysis

Industry life cycle

Inflation

Informal sector

Information for comparison

Information operations

Information processing, security and management

Information resource systems

Information systems

Information systems and strategy

Information systems development

Information, communication and monitoring

Inheritance tax: additional aspects

Inheritance tax: scope and transfers of value

Inheritance tax: valuation, reliefs and the death estate

Initialisms

Input Devices

Insider Trading Act of 1998

Insolvencies

Insolvency

Insolvency and administration

Installation

Installation and registration of Pastel Partner V11

Insurance

Intangible assets

Intangible non-current assets

Intellectual property

Intellectual property law

Interaction between members, the corporate body and third parties

Interaction between the foreign sector and the domestic economy

Interest rate risk

Interest rates in the money market

Internal analysis

Internal and external audit

Internal audit

Internal audit and outsourcing

Internal audit review and reporting

Internal computer operation issues

Internal control

Internal control evaluation

Internal control systems

Internal Credit Environment

Internal financial statements of a company

Internal rate of return

Internal vs. external audit reports

Internal vs. external reporting

International investment and financing decisions

International investment appraisal

International regulatory environments for audit and assurance services

International risk

International trade and regulation

Interpersonal Relationships and Social Interaction

Interpersonal skills

Interpret simple financial statements

Interpretation of financial statements

Interpretation of variances

Interpreting company accounts

Interpreting financial statements

Intestate succession

Introducing journals

Introduction

Introduction of government spending on an economy

Introduction to accounting

Introduction to audit evidence

Introduction to company accounting

Introduction to consolidated financial statements

Introduction to costing and performance measurement

Introduction to English law

Introduction to group accounting

Introduction to groups

Introduction to management accounting

Introduction to management information

Introduction to personal taxation

Introduction to Processing

Introduction to risk

Introduction to strategic management accounting

Introduction to strategy

Introduction to the Basic Law of Contract

Introduction to the UK tax system

Inventories

Inventories and construction contracts

Inventories, long-lived assets, income taxes and non-current liabilities

Inventory

Inventory (stock) control systems

Inventory management and control

Inventory systems (Periodic vs. Perpetual)

Inventory valuation

Investing surplus funds

Investment appraisal techniques

Investment appraisal using DCF methods

Investment decision making

Investment decisions

Investment property

Investment risk and risk profile

Investment strategies

Investments

Irrecoverable debts and allowances

Issues dealt with by the Payroll Administrator

Issues in strategic management

Job analysis and design

Job and batch costing

Job costing

Job, batch and process costing

Job, batch and service costing

Jung’s theory

Key concepts in management

Key managerial functions

Key requirements for a human resources strategy

King Report

Knowledge of computer hardware and software

Labour

Labour dispute resolution

Labour economics

Labour law

Labour legislation for business owners

Labour market –demand and supply and the wage rate

Law of agency

Law of competition

Law of insolvency

Law of trusts

Leadership

Leading

Leading and managing people

Leading as a management function

Leading – Leadership, controlling groups and teams within the organisation, motivation, and communication interpersonal relationships.

Learning curve theory

Learning to learn

Leases

Leasing

Least squares regression method

Ledger accounts and double entry

Legal framework for a sound records management programme

Legal regulation

Legal start-up requirements and duties for business owners

Legislation

Letsema Furnishers on Microsoft Office

Letsema Furnishers on Pastel Accounting

Letters of credit

Levels and concepts of strategy

Levels of ethical decision making

Liabilities

Liabilities, capital and directors’ emoluments

Life and disability cover

Life cycle costing

Limitations of financial statements and interpretation techniques

Limited liability companies

Limiting factor analysis

Linear programming

Linear programming: the graphical method

Linear programming: the simplex method

Linear regression

Liquidation and distribution accounts

Liquidity of an investment

Liquidity ratios

Listening skills

Listing of general ledger account balances on a trial balance

Long-term finance

Long-term Insurance Act, no. 52 of 1998

Losses

Losses and deficits on non-trading loan relationships

Macro business environment

Macro-economic decisions on the economy and a business environment

Macroeconomics

Magnetic tape principles

Mailroom equipment

Maintaining office supplies processes and procedures

Maintaining petty cash records

Maintenance of human resources

Majority control and minority protection

Making budgets work

Making travel arrangements in business

Management accounting control systems

Management function: Communicating

Management function: Controlling

Management function: Delegating

Management function: Leading

Management function: Motivating

Management function: Organising

Management function: Planning

Management functions

Management information

Management information systems (MSS)

Management information, recording and processing and management reports

Management of accounts payable

Management research report

Management responsibility and performance measurement

Management theory

Managerial accounting planning process

Managing application portfolio resources

Managing capacity and inventory

Managing change – innovation, culture, diversity and technology

Managing change and diversity

Managing ethics in the organisation

Managing in a changing environment

Managing inventory

Managing receivables

Managing strategic change

Managing surplus cash balances

Managing working capital

Managing working capital (with the emphasis on budgets)

Managing your debt

Managing your own finances

Manufacturing accounts

Manufacturing ledger accounts

Manufacturing overheads

Manufacturing vs. non-manufacturing costs

Marginal costing and absorption costing

Marginal costing and pricing decisions

Mark-ups and Margins

Market analysis

Market efficiency

Market evaluation

Market mechanism

Market segmentation

Market structure and Macroeconomic analysis

Marketing and business strategy

Marketing audit

Marketing communications

Marketing costs

Marketing information systems

Marketing mix

Marketing objectives

Marketing planning

Marketing plans, branding and communications

Matching strategy to a company’s situation

Material cost control

Materials

Measurement of physical quantities

Measuring performance in divisionalised businesses

Measuring returns to shareholders

Media Modes (Media Systems)

Medical scheme contributions

Meeting deadlines

Meeting procedures and correspondence

Meetings and Notices in terms of the new Companies Act

Meetings and resolutions

Members interests, shares and debentures, their transactions and minority protection

Mergers and take-overs

Methods of depreciation

Methods of project appraisal

Micro business environment

Micro-economic factors

Microeconomic analysis

Microeconomics

Migration of labour

Miscellaneous standards

Modern costing techniques – activity based costing

Modern costing techniques – throughput and backflush accounting

Modern developments in accounting and reporting

Monetary and Fiscal Economics

Monetary policy instruments

Money creation and valuation

Money in the economy

Money market instruments

Monitoring and collecting debts

Monitoring office supply processes

Monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly

Monthly Processing

More complex group structures

Motivating individuals and groups

Motivation

Moveable and immoveable property

Movements in the demand and supply curves

Movements under the accounting equation

Multi-product breakeven analysis

National insurance contributions

National Qualifications Framework (NQF)

Nature of corruption

Nature of cost and management accounting in the corporate environment

Negative forms

Negotiable instruments

Negotiable instruments and other methods of payment

Negotiation and communication

Network Design

Networks and shared data, LAN and WAN

Non-controlling interests and mid-year aquisitions

Non-current assets

Non-current assets and depreciation

Non-financial performance indicators

Non-profit organisations – Clubs and associations

Non-verbal (Body language)

Non-verbal (graphic communication)

Normal distribution

Not-for-profit organisations

Note 1 of the statement of cash flows

Note 2 of the statement of cash flows

Objectives of budgetary control

Objectives of organisations

Obligations and risk in contracts for international sales

Obtaining and accepting professional appointsments

Occupational health and safety (OHS)

Occupational Mental Health

Offences in terms of the Act

Office automation

Office equipment

Office mechanisation

Office safety and security

Office supervision

Operations management and the organisation

Opportunity costs

Oral communication

Order of operations

Organisation structures of the credit & collection departments

Organisation-level mechanisms and processes (grievance procedures)

Organisational behaviour

Organisational change

Organisational culture

Organisational culture and committees

Organisational structure and design

Organisational vs. functional relationships

Organisations and corporate personality

Organising and delegating

Organising data and information

Organising for success

Organising – Organising and delegating, managing change: culture, innovation and technology, and managing diversity

Other Advanced Functions

Other forms of possible unfair labour practice

Our number system

Output Devices

Overhead costs

Overheads and absorption costing

Overseas aspects of corporate tax

Overseas aspects of income tax

Overseas matters for companies

Overview of financial markets

Package software

Partnership Accounting

Partnership accounting

Partnership theory

Partnerships

Partnerships and limited liability partnerships

Parts of speech

Passwords

Pastel Bank Manager

Pastel Cash Manager

PAYE vs. UIF vs. SDL Remuneration

Payment requisitions

Payments vs. the invoice basis

Payroll and Payroll form

Payroll cycle

PC Hardware

PC Software

Pension Funds

Pension vs. provident funds

Pensions

Pensions and other tax efficient investment products

Perfect competition

Performance analysis and communicate findings

Performance appraisal

Performance hierarchy

Performance management and appraisal

Performance management and control of the organisation

Performance management information systems

Performance measurement

Performance measurement: strategy, reward and behaviour

Performance reporting

Performing the contract

Perpetual vs. periodic inventory system

Personal and corporate financial management

Personal effectiveness and communication

Personal ethics

Personal selling

Personnel Administration

Personnel management vs. HRM

Planning

Planning a marketing strategy

Planning an audit

Planning and decision-making

Planning and risk assessment

Planning – Goal formulation, strategic planning, managerial decision making, information management, management environment, the planning process, goal formulation. Strategic planning, creative problem solving and decision making, and information man

Political and economic trends

Porter’s model

Portfolio analysis

Posting to and balancing the general ledger

Posting to the general ledger

Posting transactions, balancing accounts and the trial balance

Powers and roots

Practical steps in starting a business

Predetermined overhead rates

Predicting and preventing corporate failure

Prefixes and suffixes

Preliminary interview

Preliminary investigation

Preparation and presentation of financial statements

Preparation of financial statements for companies

Preparation of financial statements for sole traders

Preparation of sole traders’ accounts

Preparing accounts: concepts and conventions

Preparing for IT advances

Preparing forecasts

Preparing tax returns for self-employed and partnerships

Presentation of published financial statements

Presentation of results

Presenting information

Price elasticity of demand

Price stability

Prices and money supply

Pricing

Pricing decisions

Pricing decisions and pricing strategies

Pricing policy and strategies

Principles of income tax

Principles of internal auditing

Principles of internal computer operation

Probability

Probability and statistical inference

Probability: Expected values

Probation

Problem-solving, decision making and creativity

Procedures for retrieval and disposal of documents

Process costing

Process costing, joint products and by-products

Processing a month end

Processing a year end (stock take)

Processing cash transactions (journal up to trial balance)

Processing non-cash transactions (journals up to trial balance)

Procurement policy

Product and service costing

Product branding, Building, measuring and managing brand equity

Product orientated cost systems

Product petitioning

Product vs. period costs

Production cost statement

Production possibilities frontier

Professional and ethical duty of the accountant

Professional bodies in accounting

Professional ethics

Professional liability

Profitability ratios

Project appraisal and risk

Project conclusion

Project implementation

Project lifecycle and planning

Project management

Promotion

Property and other investment income

Property income

Property, plant and equipment

Proportions

Prospective financial information (PFI)

Protected Disclosures Act

Provision of human resources

Provisional tax

Provisions and contingencies

Provisions, contingencies and events after the reporting period

Provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets

Public relations and mass communication

Punctuation

Purchase and purchase returns day books

Purchase and sale

Putting it all together

Qualifications, appointments and duties of directors and officers of corporate bodies

Qualitative characteristics of financial information

Quality control

Quality management

Quality management systems

Quantitative analysis in budgeting

Quantitative methods: Application

Quantitative methods: Basic Concepts

Quantitative techniques and interpret basic business calculations

Raising finance from a bank

Range: The Companies Act; The Close Corporations Act; IFAC Auditing Standards including Independent Review engagements (ISRE 2400)

Rates

Ratio and trend analysis

Re-order point and safety stock

Reading strategies

Real rates of interest

Receivables

Receivables and payables

Receiving and checking money

Receiving customer orders

Recent developments and trends in world financial markets and international trade

Recording and summarising transactions

Recording cash transactions

Recording monies received

Recording payments

Recording payroll transactions

Recording sales and receipts

Recording, summarising and posting transactions

Recruiting potential employees

Recruitment and selection

Reflecting on a day’s work

Regulatory background for IFRS

Regulatory Bodies

Regulatory framework and processes

Relate economic choice to opportunity costs

Related parties

Relationship between the three central macroeconomic flows

Relevant costs

Relevant costs for decision-making

Relevant governance issues

Relief for losses

Relief for trading losses

Remedies

Remedies for unfair labour practices

Remedies to breach of contract

Reporting

Reporting financial performance

Reporting for small and medium-sized entities

Reporting for specialised entities

Reporting management information

Reports

Representation of statistical data, tables, charts and graphs

Research report

Resource audit

Responsibilities of the different business functions

Retirement annuities

Retirement planning

Revenue

Revenue and Receipts cycle

Revision

Revision and practice sessions

Revision of basic groups

Revision of Financial Accounting 1

Risk

Risk and uncertainty

Risk and uncertainty in decision making

Risk assessment

Risk assessment and response

Risk attitudes and internal environment

Risk management

Role and duties of an Ethics Officer

Roots of words

Rounding off in mathematics

Sales and sales returns day books

Sales authorisation

Sales tax

SARS and the Tax Practitioner

Saving vs. investment

Scientific notation, prefixes and measurement systems

Scope of corporate governance

Scope of strategic performance measures in the private sector

Scope, computing gains and losses

Scope, taxable total profits

SDL registration

Secretaries and personal assistants

Secured transactions

Securing indebtedness

Security

Security, privacy & ethical issues in information systems

Segment reporting

Selection and appointment of an employee

Self assessment and payment of tax by companies

Self assessment and payment of tax by individuals

Self assessment for individuals and partnerships

Self-management

Sentence components

Service costing

Setting up a business

Share capital

Share capital and capital maintenance

Share-based payments

Shares and securities

Short term insurance

Short-term and medium-term financing

Short-term decisions

Short-term Insurance Act, 1998

Simple vs. compound interest calculations

Simplifying algebraic expressions

Single entry bookkeeping systems

SITE vs. PAYE

Situation analysis

Social and environmental auditing

Social responsibility

Software tools for information systems development

Software: programming, systems and application software

Sole trader financial statements (including year-end adjustments)

Sole traders and partnerships

Solvability ratio

Solving equations

Source documents

Source documents and coding

Source Documents and Value Added Tax

Sources and role of Credit

Sources of data

Sources of finance

Sources of law

Sources, records and books of prime entry

Sourcing and understanding external trends

South African notes and coins

South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)

Span of control

Speaking skills

Special aspects relating to companies

Specialised, not-for-profit and public sector

Specific applications of the income tax act – employees tax and provisional tax, principles of the taxation of benefits on retirement, death and resignation, principles of fringe benefit tax, and capital gains tax

Specific investment appraisal scenarios

Specific investment decisions

Spoken communication

Spread sheets

Spreadsheets

Staff administration systems

Stakeholders

Stakeholders and corporate objectives

Stakeholders, ethics and culture

Standard costing

Standard costs

Starting a new business

Statement of cash flows

Statement of financial position and income statement

Statements of cash flows

Statements: sole proprietors, partnerships, close corporations and non-profit organisations.

Statutory audit and regulation

Statutory provisions addressing corporate entities which face closure

Steps in statistical data analysis

Steps in the civil process

Steps in the criminal process

Steps in the ethical decision making process

Stimuli for Computerisation

Stock-piling

Stock/inventory control

Storage of information

Strategic analysis of diversified companies

Strategic capability

Strategic choices

Strategic control

Strategic control and evaluation

Strategic decision making

Strategic development

Strategic management methodologies

Strategic management theory

Strategic marketing

Strategic marketing plan

Strategic performance issues in complex business structures

Strategic performance measures in not-for-profit organisations

Strategic planning

Strategic purpose of HRM

Strategies in declining markets

Strategies of debt recovery

Strategies of description, persuasion and illustration in a variety of workplace contexts

Strategy

Strategy and competitive advantage

Strategy implementation

Strategy or strategies in the light of the chosen mission and long-term goals

Stress

Stress management

Structure of interest rates

Subsidiary journals for credit and sundry transactions

Substance over form and revenue recognition

Suitability of research topic

Sunk costs

Superlatives

Supervisory Skills

Super’s theory

Supplier Processing

Supplier processing

Supply of labour

Supply of money

Sustainable competitive advantage (sca)

Synonyms

Systems development, the five phases of design

Systems implementation and business strategy

Systems implementation, maintenance & review

Systems investigation, analysis & design

Tackling the case study

Tactical and operational considerations

Take on Balances

Taking account of taxation and inflation

Taking on balances and journals

Tangible non-current assets

Target costing

Tax certificates and the EMP501 reconciliation

Tax law

Tax payable – gross income, exemptions, deductions, recoupment of allowances, and trading stock

Tax planning and ethics

Tax returns

Taxable and exempt benefits. The PAYE systems

Taxation

Taxation of non-residents

Teaching case: Zubinos

Teamwork

Technology and industry trends

Telecommunications: media and devices

Telephone etiquette

Ten tips for keeping fresh and cool under pressure

Tense

Termination of contracts

Terms and conditions of sales and trade credit evaluation

Testate succession

Tests of control

Tests of controls: asset cyles

Tests of controls: income cycles

The accounting equation as a framework for bookkeeping and accounting

The accounts of sole traders

The accrual concept

The Administration of Estates Act 66 of 1965 (as amended)

The asset register

The audit is completed

The audit plan

The audit strategy

The bank and cash cycle

The bank reconciliation procedure

The bank reconciliation statement

The Basic Conditions of Employment Act

The basics of bookkeeping and accounting

The basics of payroll administration

The basics of subsidiary journals

The basics of the balance sheet

The basics of the general ledger

The basics of the income statement

The basics of the income tax system

The basics of using spreadsheets

The benefits of credit

The binary and decimal systems

The bond market and interest rates

The bookkeeping and accounting cycle

The budgetary process

The business and the bank

The business entity rule

The business environment

The business framework

The business plan

The capital structure decision

The case-study method

The cash book

The cash budget of a business

The cashbook payments

The cashbook receipts

The Central Bank and monetary policy

The communication process

The company statement of changes in equity

The computation of taxable income and the income tax liability

The computerisation of electronic business

The conceptual framework

The conceptual history of accounting

The consolidated statement of comprehensive income

The consolidated statement of comprehensive income and the statement of changes in equity

The consolidated statement of financial position

The consolidated statement of profit or loss and other comprehensive income

The control account system

The control of financial resources, the control of information resources and the control of human resources

The cost of capital

The courts of law

The credit collection policy

The creditors and creditors allowances journals

The creditors subsidiary ledger

The debt collectors act

The debtors and debtors allowances journals

The debtors subsidiary ledger

The definition of cash

The difference between SITE and PAYE

The different fields in accounting

The direct and step methods

The double-entry system of bookkeeping

The economic environment for business

The effects of changes in foreign exchange rates

The effects of corruption

The Estate Duty Act 45 of 1955 (as amended)

The ethical management of resources

The external audit opinion

The external marketing environment

The face of the statement of cash flows

The finance function; conflict

The Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act

The Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA)

The financing decision

The five macroeconomic objectives

The five main participants in the economy

The formation of a company

The foundations of economics

The four steps of asset disposal

The Framework for the preparation and presentation of financial statements

The general journal

The general ledger reconciliation statement

The governance framework

The human being and the organisation

The IASB Framework

The identification of feasible small business ideas

The importance of computer security

The importance of effective communication

The importance of effective communication and communication systems

The importance of effective written communication in English

The importance of ethics

The importance of gold in the world economy

The importance of Managerial Accounting in the management of an enterprise

The importance of managing operations, information and quality to ensure successful strategy implementation

The importance of various strategy – implementation levers and strategic control

The income statement of a partnership

The income statement of a sole proprietorship

The income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement

The internal marketing environment

The international context

The investment decisions

The issues involved in the focus of media communication

The issues of computer security

The language of Pastel

The law of contract

The law of delict

The law of demand

The law of supply

The legal process in debt collecting

The legal versus the commercial view of accounting

The legislative framework governing health and safety in the workplace

The linear algebraic method

The macro-economic environment

The macroeconomic context 1 – the trade cycle

The macroeconomic context 2 – the role of government

The manufaturing facility and cash flows

The market system 1 – demand and supply analysis

The market system 2 – price elasticity

The market system 3 – price instability and government intervention

The marketing environment, the marketing landscape

The matching and prudence concepts

The meaning of a percentage

The membership fees (subscriptions)account

The middle manager

The mission statement is translated into measurable long-term goals

The modern business environment

The monetary sector and monetary policy and its instruments

The National Credit Act, 2005

The nature and objectives of accounting

The nature and scope of financial management

The nature of audit evidence is explained

The nature of management – Introduction of management, the evolution of management theory, and management and the environment

The nature of research

The nature, sources and classification of the law which affect business relationships together with which law is enforced.

The new Companies Act No 71 0f 2008

The objectives of and aspects to consider when planning an audit are determined

The organisation’s external environmental assessment

The organisation’s profile

The origin of ethics

The parties

The payables ledger

The petty cash journal

The petty cash system

The petty cash voucher

The procedures for obtaining audit evidence are applied

The product life cycle

The product mix in perspective product decisions

The purpose and application of the LRA

The purpose of meeting of companies and CC’s

The qualitative characteristics of financial information

The receivables ledger

The reception area

The reception area and office ergonomics

The receptionist

The receptionist defined

The regulatory framework

The regulatory systems

The relativity of ethics

The remittance advice

The research problem

The role and responsibility of senior financial executive / advisor

The role of accounting

The role of decision support systems (DSS)

The role of information systems

The role of information technology

The role of money in the economy

The role of quality in management information and performance measurement systems

The role of telecommunications in the modern organisation

The role of the receptionist

The role of the treasury function in multinationals

The role players in occupational health and safety

The rules of double entry

The six steps of the human resource planning process

The Skills Development Levy (SDL)

The social, political and economic context

The South African legal system

The statement of financial position for a partnership

The statement of financial position for a sole proprietorship

The statement of financial position of a club

The statement of income and expenditure of a club

The statement of receipts and payments of a club

The steps in bank reconciliation

The strategic management process

The Theory of Pythagoras

The three strategy-making tasks

The Tort of Negligence

The travel budget

The trial balance

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF)

The use of financial derivatives to hedge against foreign exchange risk

The use of financial derivatives to hedge against interest rate risk

The use of strategic planning in an organisation

The VAT 201 return

The viability of a business idea

The workings of fiscal policy

The ‘Balance of Remuneration’

Theory and practice of various legislation affecting the function of credit management

Three myths about customers

Throughput accounting

Time management

Time value of money

To whom is business responsible

Trade finance

Trade profits

Trading and planning in a multinational environment

Trading losses

Training and benefits

Training and development

Training and skills development

Transaction processing systems

Transaction risk

Transfer pricing

Transportation and payment

Treasury function

Trusts and stamp duties

Turnover Tax

Tutor’s accounts and curator’s accounts

Types of balance sheet accounts

Types of contracts

Types of filing systems

Types of information needed within an organisation

Types of information system

Types of sentences

Types of taxation

Types of written communication used in business

UIF registration

Under-applied and over-applied factory overheads

Understanding ‘place’ in the marketing mix

Understanding ‘price’ in the marketing mix

Understanding ‘product’ in the marketing mix

Understanding ‘promotion’ in the marketing mix

Understanding a bank statement

Understanding and achieving wellness

Understanding business communication through the insight of revision questions

Understanding the concept of probability

Understanding the nature of self

Understanding the self development process

Unemployment

Unethical conduct

Unfair conduct

Unfair suspension and disciplinary action short of dismissal

Unilateral variation of conditions of service

Unit trusts

Users and uses of financial information

Using functions to solve problems

Using shapes to communicate workplace data

Using simple, concise and correct English

Using spreadsheets to present information

Using writing strategies and techniques for editing and proofreading

V and Y Productions – TV production company (Case Study)

Valuation of acquisitions and mergers

Valuations

Value added tax 1

Value added tax 2

Variance analysis

Variances

Variety of business texts

Various classes of transactions are audited

VAT

VAT calculations

VAT categories

VAT legislation

VAT periods

VAT registration

VAT returns

VAT supply categories

Verbal and non-verbal communication

Vision and mission statements of an organisation

Wage determination

Wages and Salaries (registers)

Wages and salaries journals (registers)

Warehousing and dispatching

What constitutes an efficient filing system?

What is petty cash?

What is Value Added Tax?

Whistleblowing

Who must register for VAT?

Why computerise?

Why do individuals prepare budgets?

Why do we keep business records?

Why is customer satisfaction so important?

Why is cyber security a problem?

Work readiness

Working capital

Working capital and the operating cycle

Working capital finance

Working capital management cycle

Working in teams

Working in the Demo Company

Working with decimal numbers

Working with fractions

Working with Microsoft Excel

Working with Microsoft PowerPoint

Working with Microsoft Word

Working with MS Windows and MS Windows Vista

Working with percentages

Working with ratio

Working with ratios

Working with the Internet and Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook

Workplace bullying and sexual harassment

Workplace Skills Plan

Writing strategies

Written communication

Microeconomics

Year-end accounting entries

Year-end adjustments

Zero-based budgeting