About FA1

Recording Financial Transactions, Paper FA1, educates candidates on preparing and recording financial documentation and processing ledger transactions. It is important to set the foundational stage and ensure that students grasp the required building blocks of accounting. This course covers all the related banking processes connected with bookkeeping, maintaining and reconciling cash, and petty cash records. Besides, it prepares aspirants to prepare the journal and relevant control accounts and find and rectify the errors. This international course aims to introduce learners to the basic accounting system up to the trial stage and the documentation type.

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Sir Mustafa Mirchawala is a reputed ACCA tutor. His in-depth lectures, practice tests, self-designed notes, and examiner report breakdowns empower you to pass this exam quite easily. He has a remarkable 80% pass rate and global recognition that his students speak for themselves. Sir Mustafa educates learners with a thorough understanding of past papers dissected through online recorded lectures that guarantee success.

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Mustafa Mirchawala is a renowned ACCA tutor. He is widely recognized for his expertise and dedication in the field. Mustafa has been at the forefront of financial reporting education. With over 20 years of teaching experience, he has become a trusted name in the industry, specializing in financial reporting, accounting, corporate reporting, and UK taxation.

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COURSE OUTLINE

Types of business transactions and documentation
  • Types of business transaction
  • Types of business documentation
  • Process of recording business transactions within the accounting system
  • Books of prime entry
  • Double entry system
  • The Journal
  • Elements of financial statements
  • The banking process
  • Documentation

Processing payroll transactions into the accounting system

  • Prepare ledger accounts
  • Maintaining a cashbook
  • Maintaining a petty cashbook
  • Recording sales
  • Recording sales
  • Recording purchases
  • Supplier balances and reconciliations
  • Purpose of control accounts and reconciliation
  • Reconcile the cashbook
  • Reconcile the receivables control account
  • Reconcile the payables control account
  • Prepare the trial balance
  • Correcting errors

Frequently Asked Questions

The ACCA-FIA is designed as an entry-level accounting certification. It provides basic knowledge and skills in finance and accounting.

You do not need to have any qualifications. After qualifying for all seven exams, you become eligible for entry into the ACCa qualification.

The complete ACCA qualifications, from basic to advanced, are designed to provide maximum flexibility, so there is no fixed deadline for completion.

Educators suggest beginning with the FA1 and MA1 exams, proceeding to the FA2 and MA2 exams, and ending with the FMA, FBT, and FFA exams.