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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP08 · Level 4

Accounting Assistant

Target occupation: accounts assistant.

Target occupation
accounts assistant
Level
4 — Skilled employee and operative
Duration
9 months
Taught hours
600 h
Credits
60

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Recording day-to-day transactions

    180 hours

    Purchases, sales, bank, cash, the OHADA framework

  2. Reconciliation and adjustments

    140 hours

    Bank reconciliation, matching, period-end adjustments

  3. Tax and social filings

    140 hours

    VAT, withholdings, periodic returns, filing calendars

  4. Accounting tools and organisation

    90 hours

    Accounting software, spreadsheets, filing, archiving, basic internal control

  5. Professional conduct and employability

    50 hours

    Confidentiality, working with the chartered accountant, job search

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Accounting Assistant — IHETC