ICB Bookkeeping Courses Online

Woodgrove Tutorials:
Woodgrove Tutorials are a Gloucester-based, award winning college and online training provider of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB) book-keeping and accounts courses through distance learning / home study. The ICB book-keeping qualifications are hugely beneficial in acquiring employment as a bookkeeper. Although the ICB provide the examination body, they don’t teach the courses themselves.

Online ICB Bookkeeping Courses:
ICB's primary objectives are to promote bookkeepers and enable them to gain recognition as an integral element of the financial system. The ICB controls this through qualifications and grades of membership which recognise the achievements of its members in academia, experience and individual competence. The ICB courses which range from beginners through to expert levels. A trainee will normally start at the beginner's level and take incrementally more challenging tests during their career, although it is not uncommon for students to start at a more intermediate level if they already have relevant experience. 

With Woodgrove Tutorials, students receive a ‘hard copy’ of the course modules on enrolment (by email and/or post by air mail) and then submit assignments online. The end exam for the ICB Level 1 is taken online at your home. External exams for levels II and III can be taken in most countries around the world.

- ICB Level I Certificate in Basic Bookkeeping:
The Certificate in Basic Bookkeeping covers the basic principles of double entry bookkeeping and how they are used in business. Students must be able to demonstrate their ability to understand and carry out the appropriate functions learned in the following courses modules:

- Business Documents
- Books of Original Entry
- Credit Control
- Ledger Accounts
- Trial Balances
- Security of Data

Once students have achieved the Level I Certificate in Basic Bookkeeping, they make take the Level II Certificate in Manual Bookkeeping

- ICB Level II Certificate in Manual Bookkeeping:
Students must be able to demonstrate their ability to understand and carry out the appropriate functions learned in the following courses modules:

- VAT Returns
- Cash Books
- Reconcile Sales and Purchases Ledger Accounts
- Correction of Errors
- Bank Reconciliation Statements
- Trading and Profit and Loss Account for a Sole Trader
- Balance sheet for a Sole Trader
- Year End Ledger Entries

- ICB Level III Diploma in Manual Bookkeeping:
Having achieved the Level II qualification in either Manual or Computerised bookkeeping, students may progress to the Level III Diploma. If applying for the Level III in Manual Bookkeeping, students must pass the Level II Certificate in Manual Bookkeeping first. If applying for the Level III in Computerised Bookkeeping, students must pass the Level II Certificate in Computerised Bookkeeping first. Students must be able to demonstrate their ability to understand and carry out the appropriate functions learned in the following courses modules:

- Data Protection
- Stock Valuation
- Post Trial Balance Adjustments and Provisions
- Disposal of Fixed Assets
- Extended Trial Balance
- Incomplete Records
- Concepts
- Partnerships
- Limited Companies
- Non-Profit Making Organisations