Leaving Certificate Accounting provides students with the knowledge, understanding and skills in accounting and financial management necessary for managing personal and basic company accounts.
The learning experiences in accounting develop students’ organisational, logical thinking, planning and problem-solving skills for their future life, work and study. It also develops their numeracy skills within the context of business and enterprise.
The syllabus is for students in the senior cycle of post-primary education and is assessed at Higher and Ordinary levels.
Accounting Course Content
- Budgeting - Cash
- Budgeting - Flexible
- Budgeting - Production
- Cash Flow Statements
- Club Accounts
- Control Accounts
- Correction of Errors/Suspense
- Costing - Job, Product, Stock Valuation & O/H Apportionment
- Costing - Marginal
- Depreciation of Fixed Assets
- Farm Accounts
- Final Accounts - Company
- Final Accounts - Manufacturing
- Final Accounts - Sole Trader
- Fixed Assets Valuation
- Incomplete Records A
- Incomplete Records B
- Interpretation of Accounts
- Published Accounts
- Revaluation of Fixed Assets
- Service Firms
- Tabular Statements