Unit 3: Bookkeeping

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Without competent bookkeepers, companies would be easy targets for fraud, employee theft, and other scandals. This unit expands on bookkeeping, the foundation of all business.

Did you know? The following activities can be customized as desired by the teacher or school pedagogue.

Basic activities (computer-graded)

Vocabulary Builder Activity

Students will learn the following key terms and phrases:

Reading Activity: Bookkeeping

Students will be able to correctly answer true/false questions after reading and listening to topical short articles and dialogs featuring topical vocabulary.

Bookkeeping is the foundation of accounting and is just as, if not even more important than some of the more 'glamorous' accounting work. So why are bookkeepers seen as being less important to the success of an accounting department than accountants? Well to get the answer to this, it is important to understand what exactly bookkeeping is. Bookkeeping within a business is basically the recording… Continue

Multiple Choice Activity

Students will be able to select the best match between unit terms and their definitions.

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Listening Comprehension Activity

Students will be able to listen to short audio clips in English and then spell them correctly.

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Spelling and Recognition

Students will be able to identify and spell a vocabulary term correctly given only the definition.

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Advanced activities (optionally teacher-graded)

Speaking Practice Activity

Students will be able to speak and record 5 example sentences from the unit vocabulary and then submit them for grading by the classroom teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the students will be shown good examples of other students' work.

You should remember that each T-account should balance. If it doesn't, there must be a mistake somewhere.

As Bob wasn't very good at maths he used single entry bookkeeping to keep track of his daily transactions.

When James had finished the clients' tax return he gave it to his supervisor to check before sending to the Inland Revenue.

When you post a transaction in the system, the programme will automatically post the second side of it.

It took me ages to remember all of the nominal codes, but now I do it is much quicker to enter invoices into the system.

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Writing Practice Activity

Students will write a short essay to be graded by the teacher. If no teacher is available or desired, then the student is shown previous examples of other writings by students.

Have you ever done any bookkeeping?

Why do you think bookkeepers are not as respected as chartered / certified accountants?

Can you think of anything which accountants do, that bookkeepers can't?

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