Government Fully Funded Free Short Accounting Courses

We are currently offering a range of free courses to support you in obtaining valuable skills. These short courses are comprehensively structured to equip you with practical skills and are delivered online with a flexible timetable.
Whether you are just starting out or looking to enhance your skills, our courses cater to all levels.

Below is a list of Free courses we are currently offering and you can pick any one course of your choice;


  • Basic and Intermediate Excel Training (8 hours)
  • Advanced Excel Training (8 hours)
  • Sage 50 Practical Bookkeeping and Accounting Training (8 hours)
  • QuickBooks Practical Bookkeeping and Accounting Training (8 hours)
  • Xero Practical Bookkeeping and Accounting Training (8 hours)
  • Payroll Practical Training (8 hours)
  • Self-Assessment Tax Return Practical Training (8 hours)

Key Benefits:

  • Fully Funded by Government: Enjoy top-tier education at absolutely no cost. (Eligibility criteria apply)
  • Great Tutor Support: Our experienced instructors are here to guide you every step of the way
  • Flexible 1-1 Training: Make your own timetable and choose any day and time to attend live online or choose self-paced (Weekdays or Weekends)
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Practical Bookkeeping and Accounting Training with Sage/QuickBooks/Xero (8 hrs)

  • Setting up companies in Sage / QuickBooks / Xero
  • Understanding various VAT schemes and HMRC compliance
  • Modifying the chart of accounts
  • Understanding nominal ledger and nominal codes
  • Setting up customers/suppliers accounts and processing sales/purchase invoices
  • Generating aged debtors and aged creditors reports
  • Generating customer/supplier statements
  • Identifying errors and performing corrections
  • Allocating cash/bank payments and receipts
  • Performing bank reconciliation and petty cash reconciliation
  • Preparing the VAT return to HMRC

Practical Payroll Training with Sage 50 (8 hrs)

  • Program and payroll basics
  • Understanding UK legislation relating to Payroll
  • Understanding Pay as you earn (PAYE) system
  • NIC classes and Income tax rates
  • Adding employees into payroll software
  • Creating pay elements
  • Processing payments and generating pay slips for employees
  • Calculating and processing statutory payments
  • Sick pay (SSP) Maternity pay (SMP) and Paternity pay (SPP)
  • Recording absences
  • Updating the payroll records with leavers and joiners
  • Payment by BACS
  • Year-end procedures
  • HMRC reports Full payment submission (FPS)
  • Issuing P45 and P60 to employees

Practical Self-Assessment Tax Return Training (8 hrs)

  • Introduction to Self-Assessment
  • Registration Process
  • Identifying different types of income (employment, self-employment, rental, investments)
  • Calculating Income
  • NI Contribution
  • Deductions and Allowances
  • Tax Computations & Payment of Tax
  • Filing and submission of Tax Return

CIS Tax Training- Construction Industry Scheme

  • Understanding Construction Industry Scheme
  • CIS registration and legislation
  • Different types of CIS and Sage CIS activation wizard
  • Setting up Subcontractors records
  • Verify Subcontractors with different methods
  • Processing Subcontractor payments and deductions
  • Generate your CIS monthly return
  • Submitting your CIS monthly returns to HMRC
  • Sage CIS Contractor Returns

Basic and Intermediate Excel (8 hrs)

  • General settings and shortcuts
  • Number and cell formats
  • Protecting excel worksheets and workbooks
  • Conditional formatting
  • Grouping data (display and collapse)
  • Sort, filter and subtotals
  • Maths formulas IF, SumIF and CountIF
  • Text formulas Concatenate and Text

Advance Excel (8 hrs)

  • Scenarios and goal seek
  • Consolidation and macros
  • IF, SumIF and CountIF
  • Data validation
  • Pivot tables and pivot charts
  • VLookup and HLookup
  • Slicers and dashboards
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