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Certified Accountant (SGD)

This online continuing education course for accountants gives you stable career prospects, since every company, even in crises, needs precise bookkeeping. With up-to-date and solid qualifications, you can boost your career opportunities across industries. The course covers comprehensive content and offers practical experience with a common financial accounting software.

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Certified Accountant (SGD) Overview

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Start and Duration
  • Duration approx. 15 months, 8 to 10 hours per week.
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Funding
  • This continuing education course is AZAV-certified and, if you are unemployed, can be funded up to 100% via the Bildungsgutschein (education voucher).
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Target Group
  • Target group: people who want to learn or further their education in accounting.
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Admission Requirements
  • No special prior knowledge is required to take the course, although commercial training can be beneficial. Technically, a standard multimedia PC with Windows, DVD drive, internet access, and a current browser is required. For an optimal learning experience, combining the SGD app on a mobile device with a PC, laptop, or tablet is recommended.
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Certificate
  • SGD Certificate
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Language
  • German

About this online course

Basic information

The continuing education course for Certified Accountant (SGD) offers comprehensive knowledge in various areas of accounting and financial management. You will learn business fundamentals such as production and cost theory as well as operational functional areas. Another focus is on legal matters and social insurance law, which is essential for the professional handling of accounting tasks.

Basic and specific knowledge of bookkeeping is taught, including the preparation of balance sheets, account management, depreciation, and annual financial statements. You will learn the organization and forms of double-entry bookkeeping, as well as the practice of accounting in retail and industry. Topics also include payroll accounting, valuation according to commercial and tax law, and accounting principles.

The course places special emphasis on the practical application of the learning content, including the use of commercially available PC financial accounting software. This can help you increase your efficiency and open up new fields of work.

Why should you take this continuing education course? On the one hand, it is ideal for people from the commercial sector who are seeking a qualified position as an accountant. On the other hand, it is beneficial for those who currently work in accounting and want to update their knowledge. Self-employed individuals can also benefit from improved accounting skills.

Through this course, you can qualify for crisis-proof, well-paid clerk positions that offer high development potential. The continuing education significantly enhances career prospects and enables graduates to successfully operate in a constantly evolving professional field.

You should have a fundamental interest in numbers, analyses, and legal aspects. The ability to understand complex financial relationships and work precisely is also important for success in this professional field.

Contents:

  • Business Administration Basics: Production and Cost Theory
  • Fundamentals of Accounting: Introduction
  • Organization and Forms of Double-Entry Bookkeeping: Tasks and Structure of Accounting
  • Practice of Accounting – Retail Bookkeeping: Minimum Bookkeeping
  • Practice of Accounting – Industrial Bookkeeping: Chart of Accounts for Industry
  • Payroll Accounting: Basic Concepts
  • Valuation under Commercial and Tax Law: Valuation Standards and Principles
  • Accounting under Commercial and Tax Law: Fundamentals of Accounting
  • Special Issues in Accounting: Consolidated Financial Reporting
  • The Annual Financial Statement, Regulations, Analysis and Critique: Annual Financial Statement Regulations for All Merchants
  • Introduction to Tax Law: Tax Code

Who offers this course?

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With over 75 years of experience and more than 900,000 participants, SGD (Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt) offers over 300 flexible online continuing education courses in areas such as school qualifications, business, technology, IT, languages, and health. These courses can be completed entirely online and are especially attractive for working professionals and families. The innovative SGD OnlineCampus and the SGD Campus App enable mobile learning with multimedia content such as e-books, learning apps, and online training.

SGD contact information

  • Email: beratung@sgd.de

  • Address: Hilpertstr. 31, 64295 Darmstadt

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Certified Accountant (SGD) Pricing

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  • Practical study folder
  • 25 study booklets
  • Practice-oriented exercises and learning tasks
  • 1 course guide booklet
  • Financial accounting software "buchhalter" by Lexware
  • Access to the SGD OnlineCampus

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