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Get in TouchIf lack of UK practical work experience in accountancy is stopping you from getting your ideal accountancy job, TD&A can help you get the experience. We will train you, help you to create an Accountancy job CV and, also help you with professional references & job interview tips.
We have helped ACCA students/Affiliates, AAT students/Finalists, University Accounting Students & graduates and MBA students to gain hands on practical work experience which has led to job interviews and even jobs! We have also helped individuals who have had their experience from outside the UK, individuals from European countries, Rusia, Asia, and Africa; we have helped them gain UK practical accountancy work experience to help boost their job prospects.
TD&A is a firm of Certified Accountants in Public Practice and we take great delight in ensuring that you get hands on industry work experience. You will be mentored by Chartered Certified Accountant and you will use accounting software’s such as: Sage Line 50 Professional, QuickBooks, Iris Accounts production & Business & Personal Tax and Excel 2010.
Our head office is in Canary Wharf London and we also have another office in the Royal borough of Greenwich (Greenwich peninsula next to the O2 arena).The practical work experience training sessions are done in both offices in Canary wharf London – easily accessible with the Underground/tube (Jubilee line), buses (D7, 277, 135,D3) and DLR and the Royal Greenwich office – easily accessible by the Jubilee line and buses (188, 472, 486,129 108, 161). You will also have an opportunity to network with prospective employers within the Canary wharf area and the Greenwich Penensula business district
TD&A’s hands on practical work experience training schedule is flexible and fits around you. Enroll at anytime and progress at your own pace with expert guidance and mentoring from highly qualified and experienced Chartered Certified Accountants.
Here is how you can kick start your accountancy career today and gain the practical experience to work as:
If you’re looking to kick start or develop a career in accounting then this practical work experience training in accountancy is an ideal stepping stone. Practical areas covered within the training include the double entry system, trial balances, Bank reconciliations, credit control, VAT, Journals, control accounts, accruals, prepayments. You will have the opportunity to prepare accounting books to trial balance level of a small to Medium sized company using the award winning accountancy software – Sage Line 50 and Microsoft Excel. If you have no Sage line 50 accounts experience, we will train you to use Sage for FREE.
Details:
Location: 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: One to one hands on Practical Work Experience Training by Chartered Accountant(s)
Schedule: Any two days per week from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Saturday for 1- 2 Months
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
By equipping you with practical, hands-on accounting skills this practical experience will prepare you for a good stating point for a solid career in accounting. This could be as a bookkeeper, accounts clerk, company cashier, sales or purchase ledger clerk or financial accounts assistant. You will gain practical insight on the double entry system, trial balances, Income statement, Balance sheet, bank reconciliations, credit control, business financial reporting & analysis and Essential Microsoft Excel skills for the financial accounts assistant.
Areas covered within this work experience include:
- All aspects of Purchase ledger and sales ledger, that is: setting up customer accounts & supplier accounts, processing customer & supplier invoices & credit notes, reconciling supplier statements, doing payment runs
- Inputing, matching, batching & coding of invoices
- Processing & allocating payments and receipts
- Processing staff expenses
- Debtor & creditor reconciliation
- Bank Reconciliations in Sage and Excel
- Credit Control,
- Managing Petty Cash
- Systems you will use: Sage 50 or QuickBooks, and MS Excel
- Preparing accounts to Trial balance
- Journals
- Error identification and correction
- Control Accounts
- How and when to register for VAT
- Processing the VAT return
- Reconciling & submitting the VAT return
By the end of this work experience training you will have a solid understanding of manual and computerised accounting, your competence will increase and you will be able to face the job market with confidence, your chances of securing a role in accounting will also increase significantly as has been the case with many of the trainees who have been to TD&A.
Please call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk to kick-start your work experience at TD&A. Listen to how a trainee got a job after a few sessions of practical training at TD&A, CLICK here
By the end of this practical work experience as a Financial accountant, you should be competent and confident enough to work as a financial accountant, a finance manager, payroll manager because you are your work experience will involve doing both hands financial accounting and payroll accounting, every step designed to make sure that you gain the practical insight and skills of working in a real finance department.
Details:
Location: 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: One to one hands on Practical Work Experience Training by Chartered Accountant(s)
Schedule: Any two days per week from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday for 2 – 4 Months
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
Practical skills you’ll learn are:
Systems you will use include: Sage Line 50, Iris, QuickBooks, Accounts Production software, Advanced Excel. You will gain practical experience in:
- All aspects of sales and purchase ledger
- Internal control for fixed assets and cash
- Financial accounts preparation including cash-flow forcasting
- Preparing financial statements and reports (Profit and Loss account – SOCI, Balance sheet – SOFP, Notes to the accounts)
- Reviewing accounting procedures & financial performance of a business
- Dealing with HMRC queries
- Preparing balance sheet account reconciliations
- Preparation of all month-end journals: including depreciation, prepayments, provisions and accruals
- Closing the financial year and preparing for the next one
- Filing corporate tax returns (CT600) with HMRC and annual returns to companies house
- Managing Director loan accounts
- Registering a business as an employer with HMRC
- Processing the RTI (Real Time Information) payroll
- Calculating holiday pay
- Calculating and processing Maternity, Paternity, and sick pay
- Salary sacrifice
- Benefits in Kind to employess and form P11D
- Paying employees by cash, BACS, cheque
- Processing Payroll yearend
- Contents of the P32 form
To start gaining your work experience as a financial accountant, please call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk to enroll.
Accountants play a strategic role within business by providing professional advice, aiming to maximise profitability on behalf of their client or employer. This involves activities such as financial reporting, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting, corporate finance, business recovery and insolvency.
By the end of this practical work experience as a professional accountant, you will learn the fundamentals of Accounting as applied in real life Accountancy work. Pure practical work experience; Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Payroll Accounting, Tax Accounting work, every step designed to make sure that you gain the practical insight and skills of working in a real finance department. You will be able to apply for jobs such as: Financial Accountant, Finance Manager, Accounts General, Purchase ledger manager, Sales ledger manager.
Details:
Location: 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: One to one hands on Practical Work Experience Training by Chartered Accountant(s)
Schedule: Any two days per week from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday for 3 – 6 Months
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
Practical skills you’ll learn are:
Systems you will use include: Sage Line 50, Iris, QuickBooks, Accounts Production software, Advanced Excel. You will gain all the practical skills of Accounts Assistant, Bookkeeper, purchase & sales ledger as stated above section, plus the financial & management accounting skills below:
- Financial accounts preparation including budgets & cash-flow
- Corporate reporting
- Managing Director loan accounts
- Calculating capital allowances
- KPI analysis and evaluation of costs and margins
- Preparation and input of month end journal vouchers
- Fuel scale charges
- Employee benefits
- Fixed asset accounting, reconciliations & depreciation journals
- Preparation of balance sheet account reconciliations
- Internal control procedures for tangible fixed assets and cash
- Posting adjusting entries for Depreciation, Prepayments & Accruals
- Performing Error Corrections
- Preparing closing entries
- Preparing the trial balance report
- Preparing a Profit & Loss account and the Balance sheet in a work sheet.
- Preparing the post closing Trial Balance
- Running the year end procedure in Sage line 50 Accounts to close the financial year and start a new financial year
- Budgeting (Preparing Sales and Operational budgets) – Practical key principles and procedures
- Analysing Accounting Data using Pivot tables and producing financial reports for management
- Performing Debtor Analysis and credit control procedures
- Performing breakeven analysis to set performance targets
- Performing Ratio analysis
- Analysing of business Performance
- Preparing the company Tax return – CT600 and submitting it to HMRC
- How to incorporate a business in the UK
- Registering a business as an employer with HMRC
- Processing the RTI (Real Time Information) payroll
- Calculating holiday pay
- Calculating and processing Maternity, Paternity, and sick pay
- Salary sacrifice
- Benefits in Kind to employees and form P11D
- Paying employees by cash, BACS, cheque
- Contents of the P32 form
- Performing the payroll year-end procedure
After this practical work experience, your skills as an Accountant will be greatly enhanced and your marketability with recruitment agencies and potential employers will be of benefit to you.
Please call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk to enroll.
This 2 months practical work experience training in Management Accounting is perfect for those who want to move a level higher in their accounting career by getting a hands on practical experience in preparing financial reports and then interpreting and analysing them for management. Prior knowledge of preparing accounts to trial balance is essential – See the accounts assistant work experience
Details:
Location: 25 Canada square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: One to one hands on Practical Work Experience Training by Chartered Accountant(s)
Schedule: Any two days per week from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday for 3 Months
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
After doing these practical work experience, you will be competent to work as:
- Management Accountant
- Credit Controller
- small business financial analyst
- Small business advisor
- Accounts general
Here are some of the practical skill that you’ll gain:
- Planning and Budgeting (Sales and Operational budgets) – Practical key principles and procedures
- Corporate reporting- KPI’s, Variance analysis, SWOT analysis
- Performing Monthly Cash flow forecasting
- Analysing Accounting Data using Pivot tables and producing financial reports for management
- Performing breakeven analysis to set performance targets
- Performing Ratio analysis
- Analysing of business Performance
- Business planning
If you want to gain more out of your accountancy career, this practical work experience training will be perfect for you.
Please call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk to start gaining your work experience.
This is a one month UK practical payroll work experience training that will help you become proficient in administering the duties of a payroll accountant in any organisation you work in. The structure of the training is based on real company payrolls and you will learn all the details related to PAYE, Employer NIC, Employee NIC, Salary sacrifice, SMP, SPP, holidays, Overtime, tax codes, different rates of personal allowances, employee benefits and how to account for them, and UK legislation on matters related to payroll
Details:
Location: 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: One to one hands on Practical Work Experience Training by Chartered Accountant(s)
Schedule: Any one or two days per week from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday for 1 Month
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
The practical payroll skills you’ll learn are:
- Registering a business as an employer with HMRC
- The Payroll cycle – RTI (Real Time Information)
- understanding UK legislation relating to Payroll
- understanding the coding notice and its features
- setting up the payroll
- Processing time-sheets
- PAYE, NI Contributions
- Calculating holiday pay
- Calculating and processing Maternity, Paternity, and sick pay
- Salary sacrifice
- Benefits in Kind to employess and form P11D
- Paying employees by cash, BACS, cheque
- P32
- Updating the payroll records with leavers and joiners
- Processing the RTI (Real Time Information) payroll
- issuing payslips to employees
- Reconciling the payroll records
- submitting PAYE to HMRC on behalf of employees
- Issuing P60′s to employees at the end of each tax year
After doing this practical work experience, you will be competent enough to work in roles such as:
- Payroll accountant
If you want to gain practical experience on payroll accounting, this is the training you need, it’s hands on, and you will really get the required experience in administering the payroll.
To start gaining this work experience please call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk .
This practical work experience training will help you gain an in-depth practical knowledge and skill on how to prepare and submit VAT, corporation and personal tax returns to HMRC. Its perfect for those who like to pursue a career in tax and also those who want to enhance their practical accountancy experience portfolio with varied key taxation practical skills.
You will gain skills that will help you apply your business knowledge, accounting expertise and fiscal acumen to help a firm comply with HMRC tax regulations. It is essential that you have a minimum of an accounting (AAT, ACCA, CIMA) or taxation (ATT, CTA) qualification (student or graduate) before enrolling to do this practical work experience training.
Details:
Location: 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: One to one hands on Practical Work Experience Training by Chartered Accountant(s)
Schedule: Any two days per week from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Friday for 1 Month
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
By equipping you with practical, hands-on accounting tax skills this practical practical work experience in preparing, VAT, personal & corporate tax returns will help you to be competent enough to work as: Tax associate, Tax accountant.
The practical Tax Skills you’ll learn are:
- Calculating Capital Allowances
- Making adjustments to trading profit
- Preparing personal Tax Returns – SA100
- Preparing the corporation Tax Return – CT600
- Preparing, adjusting, reconciling & submitting the VAT tax return to HMRC
- Tax compliance
- Structuring clients affairs lawfully to minimise future tax liabilities
- Performing basic tax health checks for new clients
- How to effectively deal with HMRC querries and investigations
- How to effectively claim a tax refund from HMRC
- How to get authorisation to act as an agent for a client on tax matters
- Filling in common HMRC forms for clients – Form P161, R40, etc
- How to effectively correspond with HMRC
To enroll, call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk.
If you want to maximise your chances of securing a competitive accounting position in the market, then you need to consider gaining practical skills in using some of the advanced Microsoft Excel functions such as: Pivot tables, Data validation, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, IF logic function, Advanced Filter and many others. Excellent knowledge and practical skills in using advanced Excel will set you apart from other candidates and may well be the factor that will get you the job you so long for.
You see; financial statements, sales reports, inventory, breakeven analysis, ratio analysis, monthly cash flow forecasts, operational budgets, customer activity, etc – so much of this stuff is kept in Excel. Excels ability to manipulate and give feedback about data makes it attractive.
That is why it so imperative that your microsoft Excel skills go beyond the basics because; as an accountant, you can leverage on the powerful and complex features of Excel to streamline your work, save time and be more productive hence the reason most serious paying accounting jobs will require you to have Excel skills beyond the basics.
The Excel training programme at TD&A will absolutely help you enhance your skills as an Accountant and you will in no doubt increase your chances of securing an Accountancy Job with the new skills you will gain in learning the advanced features of Excel stated in this practical training.
Training Details:
Location: 25 Canada Square, Canary Wharf London E14 5LQ
Structure: Hands on Practical Work Experience Training on a one to one basis
Schedule: One day per week (for 1 Month) or 4 days in a row from 10:00am to 4:00pm. We are open Monday to Friday.
Start Date: Call 020 7038 8046 for details
Payment terms: Flexible
Benefits to you of doing Advanced Excel training
This training program is about producing financial reports & the number-crunching side of Excel. Formulas are the keystone to analysing data – that is digging out nuggets of important information and every Accountant should be competent in analysing data.
This course uses a teaching technique that enables you to master the most fundamental features of Excel 2007 Data Validation, VLOOKUP, Pivot tables and IF logic function and many other functions relevant to your role as an accountant.
Here are some of the unique features of this course:
• The course is carefully structured into sessions and lessons
• Skills taught in the context of real accounting and business problems
• The course is presented on a one to one basis. It’s like being mentored by the best
• The presentation style allows you to learn only the skills that are essential to you as an accountant
• There is a practical hands-on involvement – not boring theory
• Sample files are from the real world of business.
By the end of the training, you will be able to:
- Summarise and analyse financial data and produce reports for management purposes
- Produce a classified profit & Loss account and Balance sheet
- Perform breakeven analysis and ratio analysis
- Prepare lead schedules for depreciation, Prepayments & Accruals
- Master the most commonly used Excel functions: VLOOKUP, AVERAGE, IF, NOW and TODAY, MIN, MAX, SUMIF and COUNTIF, ISNUMBER, INT and ROUND, SUM, COUNT,
- Use advanced Functions of Excel to solve real-world business problems
- Perform what-if analysis to model and compare business scenarios
- Eliminate errors using Excel’s advanced formula auditing tools
- Design advanced Pivot tables and Pivot charts
- Understand and use Excel’s security features
- Calculate loan payments and Interest rates
- Calculate depreciation using 3 methods
To enroll please call 020 7038 8046 or email: accountants@tdanda.co.uk .
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