PURPOSE AND RATIONALE OF THE QUALIFICATION

• Provide the learner with the knowledge, understanding, skills and experience to become a

• Bookkeeper. This will aid individual development and enhance the employment prospects of the learner, as well as social transformation through the formal acknowledgement of competencies, skills and knowledge.

• Equip the learner with a Qualification that can be used as an introduction to the field of

• Accounting. Successful completion of this qualification will give the learner the knowledge and skills required not only to perform their Accounting job efficiently but also to proceed on a path of lifelong learning with Qualifications at a higher level.

• Provide employers and others with an adequate basis for assuring that those learners gaining the Qualification is competent to act as Bookkeepers, providing accounting support and recording the day-to-day financial transactions of the business for companies and other organisations.

•  Encourage the broadest possible access to the Accounting profession and Accounting

• Qualifications by making it possible for the following learners to obtain a bookkeeping qualification:

•  Those who have performed an Accounting And/or Bookkeeping function in their organisation for some time without a formal Qualification in Accounting.

•  Those previously disadvantaged and unable to continue their learning in the Further Education Band.

•  Those who are contracted in a learnership agreement in the Accounting sector.

•  Those who have recently taken up a position as a support staff member in an

• Accounting section of a medium to large organisation.