Do you want to be a bookkeeper?
Did you know that employers prefer to hire candidates with formal qualifications rather than those with only experience?

What can you do with your Pastel certification?
With your Pastel accounting certification, you will be able to apply for a position as a junior bookkeeper anywhere in Namibia. This means that any company making use of Pastel as their bookkeeping system would require the services of a qualified Pastel bookkeeper.

We know that you don’t necessarily want to work for a company, and that’s why we offer Pastel accounting courses that enable you to become self-sufficient if you choose. With your Pastel accounting certification, you will be able to start your own business by doing bookkeeping for individuals and small businesses.

How do you obtain your accounting certification?
In order to obtain a Pastel bookkeeping certification through IIT, you will have to complete the relevant exams applicable to the course. Once you’ve passed these exams, you will be a qualified junior bookkeeper.

How much can I earn once I have obtained my accounting certification?
Your starting salary can range from N$ 3 500 to N$ 6 000 per month, which is an impressive starting salary in Namibia

Once you have a few years’ worth of experience, your earning potential will increase dramatically. Your Pastel bookkeeping certification along with your experience will help you achieve your financial dreams.

Course: Pastel Accounting Course
Profile: Any person who is responsible for the financial accounting of a business. Any person who runs their own business and wishes to either become competent to do the financial accounting themselves, or wants to understand the Pastel environment enough to act as a backup for their accounting clerk.

Aim of course: This Pastel course will provide the student with overviews of the basics of pastel partner software as well as some intermediate features. The Pastel course is concluded with a discussion of your own unique accounting problems.

Prerequisites and Entrance Requirement: 
Grade 12 with Accounting or relevant work experience. The student must be computer literate and must have an understanding of basic accounting principles. No knowledge of Pastel software is required.

Delivery method:
 Instructor led, group paced, hands-on learning model.

Why you should attend?
The Pastel course offers the ideal opportunity to discuss your accounting problems with an accountant. You don't have to take a week off from work. It is a high impact Pastel course. The Pastel course is priced less than you would expect to pay, without compromising value. You have the opportunity to write the official Pastel Partner once completed. It can bring you one step closer to a better career or it will give you more confidence in your current job utilizing Pastel accounting Software.

Course Outline: 
Using Pastel Partner software, students that completed this course should be able to (see detailed outline on next page):

• Overview vOpen and set-up a new company vCreate a chart of accounts
• Create customers and suppliers
• Create inventory vCreate cashbooks vProcess journals and cashbooks
• Process Bank reconciliation
• Tax processing vGenerate reports vWrite a special report from scratch
• Importing and exporting data
• Management reports

Detailed Course Outline:

• Overview 
  Navigation tools within Pastel, Online Help and how Pastel implements the basic accounting principles.
• Setting up Accounts:
  Learn how to create General Ledger, Customer and Supplier Accounts in Pastel. As well as Sales Analysis codes, Cost codes and Inventory Items
• Supplier Processing:
  Learn how to process Supplier documents including Purchases Orders, Goods Received Notes, Supplier Invoices, Debit and Credit Notes made easy by Pastel.
• Customer Processing:
  Learn how to process Customer documents, including Sales Invoices, Sales Orders, Quotations, Recurring invoices, Debit and Credit Notes.
• Multi-Stores:
  Understand how to set up and operate different stores for processing.
• General Ledger Processing: 
  Learn how to make Cash Book Deposits and Payments, as well as petty cash. Enter transactions in the journal and complete a Bank Reconciliation using Pastel.
• Taxes:
  Set up tax parameters for inventory, general ledger, customer and supplier accounts. Change tax types and generate Tax Reports
• Periodic Processing:
  Perform an inventory-count. Generate a number of Month end Reports and run through the Year End procedure with Pastel accounting software.

 Duration:
Part time                14h00 – 17h00                        Monday - Friday                     2 Weeks
Full time                 08h00 – 12h00                        Monday - Friday                     2 Weeks

• The NBI national exam is Compulsory and students who fail the exam will not receive the NBI Certification
• A Report card will be given with completion of the course. 
• No proof of qualification will be given before the total amount of the course has been fully paid.