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If you pass the level III computerised bookkeeping exam,   is there any need to go for the SAGE Diploma course ?

What, if any, differences are there ?





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Hi Bob,

I answered this one before in post  http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=106474&p=3&topicID=34487997

Especially this part :

You don't NEED to do the Sage certification but it might help in finding a job as more employers have heard of Sage certification than have heard of the ICB exams.

Sage certification tests knowledge of Sage. The ICB qualifications test your knowledge of applying sage to a bookkeeping scenario. So really both coming at things from different angles.

Note that level III sage tests knowledge of Sage well beyond the ICB sylabus (tests foreign trading, stock control, bill of materials, etc).

All the best,

Shaun.

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Thanks ....  too many late-nights / no-nights

off to bed now (04:00am)




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I know the feeling Bob.

I'm going through study crisis at the moment. I try to remember today what I learned yesterday but it's gone... Yet I know that tomorrow I'll remember it! How wierd is that. it's as if my brains got an in tray and a 48 hour processing time.



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Hi Bob

Along with what Shaun has said, don't forget that the ICB level III computerised does not necessarily require Sage software to be used, although it is oriented around Sage and the accompanying disk is Sage Data, there is no condition that says thats what you have to use (the only rule is that Excel isn't acceptable).

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I did the L3 via IAB, we covered opening/closing stock transactions, bad debt relief & provisions on the profit & loss nominals. Depreciations, the write offs of an asset including the trading in values (including correct use of the T9 & T1 on the sale/loss). We also covered in depth the wages journals including Directors NI and a full breakdown of cost of wages etc. It would be interesting to know what the ICB cover on this level?

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Hi Lisa

The ICB covers pretty much the same, including manufacturing accounts (Prime costs, opening/ closing stock balances for materials, work in progress, finished  goods etc).

Wages are only really dealt with as a gross figures and tax and Ni as liabilities. The Directors NI and gross wages etc are covered in more detail, in a seperate payroll qualification

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