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Accounting & Finance Short Courses

Build focused accounting and finance skills without committing to a full professional qualification. Explore short courses covering IFRS, management accounting, financial modelling, Excel, and other practical areas relevant to study and the workplace.

Designed for students, accounting professionals, and finance teams, these flexible recorded courses allow you to focus on the knowledge you need for your studies or role.

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Short Courses in Accounting & Finance

Choose from individual courses and bundles covering accounting, finance, IFRS, Excel, and financial modelling. Filter by topic or search for a specific course to find the right option for your goals.

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Chief Accountants' Pack

A two-course bundle combining IFRS and financial modelling in Excel, designed to strengthen practical skills that accountants can apply in their day-to-day work.

Complete ACCA Dip-IFR (IFRS)Financial Modelling in Excel
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Essentials for Finance Managers

A four-course bundle covering ACCA DipIFR (IFRS), consolidated financial statements, investment appraisal, and financial modelling

Complete ACCA Dip-IFR (IFRS)Consolidated Financial StatementsInvestment AppraisalFinancial Modelling
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Management & Finance

Consolidated Financial Statements

Build practical skills in preparing consolidated financial statements, with a strong focus on working through questions and applying the relevant accounting principles.

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IFRS Standard

IFRS 9: Financial Instruments

Understand how IFRS 9 recognizes and measures financial instruments, including financial assets and financial liabilities, and the key principles that guide their accounting treatment.

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IFRS Standard

IFRS 15: Revenue From Contracts With Customers

Learn how IFRS 15 recognises and measures revenue, including the five-step model and its application to customer contracts.

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IFRS Standard

IFRS 16: Leases

Understand lease accounting under IFRS 16, including right-of-use assets, lease liabilities and the distinction between leases and service contracts.

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Management & Finance

Capital Budgeting: Investment Appraisal

Learn how to evaluate long-term investment decisions using capital budgeting techniques, including the analysis of non-current asset investments and new projects.

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Management & Finance

Essentials of Cost & Management Accounting

Learn the fundamentals of cost and management accounting, including cost behaviour, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, and how accounting information supports business decision-making.

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Excel

Excel For Everyone

Build practical Microsoft Excel skills from the ground up and learn how to work more confidently and efficiently with spreadsheets in study and the workplace.

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Excel

Financial Modelling in MS Excel

Learn how to build professional financial models in Microsoft Excel, with practical skills relevant to finance managers, analysts and accounting professionals.

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Why Choose a Short Course?

Build Skills Without Taking on a Full Qualification

Focused Learning

Each course concentrates on a specific subject, helping you spend your time developing the knowledge that matters to your current goal.

Practical Application

Where included, courses use questions, quizzes, and practical activities to help you apply what you learn and check your understanding.

Flexible Study

Recorded course content allows you to study at a time that works around your job, studies and other commitments.

Find the Right Accounting or Finance Course for Your Goal

Whether you're preparing for an exam, developing a specific skill for work, or looking to strengthen your accounting and finance knowledge, our team can help you choose the right course.