BASIC ACCOUNTING FOR RURAL BANK OFFICERS


Rationale

In the business of banking, decisions to lend, to invest, and provide other financial services are made everyday not only by officers in the highest echelons of power but by ordinary employees to whom are entrusted the task of conducting the Bank’s day-to-day activities. It is therefore essential that all rural banks appreciate the need to provide their Bank officers with the opportunity to learn or, in some cases, to relearn accounting as a language, a process and a tool for decision making.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the three (3) - day seminar, the rural bank participants will be able to:

1. Define and discern the value of for its various users;
2. Describe the various generally accepted accounting principles which guide accountants in the actual practice of accounting;
3. Appreciate the limitations of accounting in recording and interpreting basic financial data;
4. Elaborate on the basic accounting terms used in business transactions; and,
5. Analyze, record, classify and summarize financial transactions using journals, ledgers, trial balances and the basic financial reports.

Course Outline:

ACCOUNTING: WHAT AND WHY

USES AND USERS OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION

GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES I

THE GIVE AND TAKE NATURE OF FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS

MAJOR CLASSIFICATIONS OF ACCOUNTS

THE CHART OF ACCOUNTS

THE ACCOUNTING EQUATION

ANALYZING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS USING THE ACCOUNTING EQUATION

JOURNALIZING

POSTING

PREPARING THE TRIAL BALANCE

GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES II

PREPARING ADJUSTING ENTRIES

PREPARING THE BALANCE SHEET AND THE INCOME STATEMENT

PREPARING THE CLOSING ENTRIES

PREPARING THE CLOSING ENTRIES

PREPARING THE POST-CLOSING TRAIL BALANCE

Seminar Methodologies

Lecture-discussion
Class exercises
Individual exercises

Duration: 3 Days

Expected Participants

Loan officers, Account officers, Bank officers

The Organizers

RBAP
RBRDFI

Resource Speaker

Dr. Epictetus Patalinghug
UP Diliman

Mr. Dave Vincent Borja
UP Diliman


REGISTRATION FEES

Manila Trainings : P5,000.00 per participant
Note:
* A maximum number of 30 participants.
* Registration fee per participant includes: payment for honorarium of resource speakers, hand-outs & kits, IDs, Certificates of Completion, invitation and coordination services of RBAP/RBRDFI staff, cost of the training venue, meals of resource speakers and RBAP/RBRDFI staff, transportation of the resource speakers to and from the venue, and secretariat services during the training.
*Participants who will be able to pay 2 weeks before the scheduled training are entitled to a 5% discount from the above registration fee.





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