Certificate in Xero Accounting

Week (1) Accounting principles and double entry accounting

• Learn & apply basic accounting concepts

• Understand asset, liability, income, expense and owner’s equity

• Learn accounting equations and transaction analysis

• Understand double entry accounting concepts and techniques

• Create accounting journal and understand how debits and credits work

• Post journal entries into ledgers

• Prepare and understand trial balance report

• Understand and interpret financial statements

• Understand the concept of depreciation

• Distinguish between capital and revenue expenditures

• Understand owner’s drawings

• Understand Owner’s contribution

• Homework for week (1)

• Live Q & A

 
Week (2) Set up Xero for a new or an existing GST registered business or not-for-profit organisation

• Create your FREE Xero Trial Account

• Set up your business or organisation in Xero

• Learn how chart of accounts works in Xero

• Delete or archive existing accounting codes

• Customize your chart of accounts

• Set up bank accounts and connect your bank with Xero

• Xero Dashboard set up and editing

• Set up invoice template for your business or organisation

• Add new account code, edit existing codes

• Set up GST for your business or ogranisaiton in Xero

• Learn how to import and export your chart of accounts

• Enter your account opening balances in Xero

• Homework for week (2)

• Live Q & A

 
Week (3) Enter credit sales and purchases transactions and manage accounts receivable and payable in Xero

• Learn how manage users and users permission in Xero

• Manage credit sale invoices with partial payment

• Manage sale return and issue credit note to customers

• Apply customer payment to invoice

• Enter credit purchase with partial payment

• Account for purchase return and credit note from supplier

• Enter credit sale invoices

• Enter cash sale invoices

• Account for after sale conditional discount

• Enter credit purchase and supplier bills

• Enter cash purchase bills

• Manage credit and cash purchase of fixed assets

• Homework for week (3)

• Live Q & A

Week (4) Enter cash expense, end of month, quarter and year adjustments transactions in Xero

• Manage banking functions in Xero

• Enter spend money transactions

• Understand and manage manual and automatic bank transactions

• Manage and enter owner's contribution and drawing transactions

• Enter grant and donation income transactions

• Manage end of month, quarter and year adjustment entries, manage overpayment transaction

• Learn about bank feed and how to connect your bank accounts to Xero

• Enter receive money transactions

• Enter transfer money transactions

• Set up and manage various bank accounts

• Enter refund receipt and payment transactions

• Enter transactions via journal, manage prepayment transaction

• Homework for week (4)

• Live Q & A

Week (5) Complete bank reconciliation and learn how to account for GST, income and provisional tax for sole trader, partnership and company

• Do manual and automatic bank reconciliations

• Learn how to read, interpret and analyze financial statements

• Understand and account for income tax for sole trader, partnership and company

• Understand the importance of cashflow management in business

• Complete end of month's accounts receivable and payable reconciliations

• Set up automatic invoice reminders and generate and send statements to customers

• Learn how to account for GST, prepare and file GST return to IRD

• Generate and publish financial statements

• Understand and account for provisional tax for sole trader, partnership and company

• Effectively manage cashflow for your business using various tools in Xero

• Effectively monitor customer and supplier payments to avoid cashflow problem

• Homework for week (5)

• Live Q & A

Week (6) Manage, inventory, files, depreciation of fixed assets and automate bill entry process

• Set up, manage and account for inventory items in Xero

• Learn how to account for depreciation of fixed assets

• Create supplier bills automatically right from your email inbox

• Create bulk supplier batch payment file and pay your suppliers in bulk

• Manage all your contacts for your customers and supplier using the Xero contact management functions

• Learn to bulk import or export your contacts, use grouping and smart list functions to save time, 

• Course review, evaluation and certification

• Set up untracked items to automate transaction entry for retail and service-based businesses

• Mange all your files on cloud and go paperless with Xero

• Organise your files using folders, upload various file and attached files in your transactions

• Learn how to quickly find your recorded transactions, using search function and short cuts

• Continuous learning and improvements

• Homework for week (6)

• Live Q & A

• You become a competent and confident Xero user in Just 6 weeks or less from the comfort of your own home or office.

• You learn from a qualified, experienced Accountant and MYOB, XERO & Payroll Certified Advisor with over 8 years of solid accounting and teaching experience in New Zealand.

• XERO & Accounting skills are highly-sought-after skills and in high demand.

• XERO is used by over 2 million businesses in New Zealand and Australia alone and is growing.

• You don’t need to have any previous accounting or XERO knowledge to enrol in this course. The course suits all skill levels.

• You receive a completion certificate at the end of this course.

Wednesday evenings over 6 weeks, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm
23, 30 July, 6, 13, 20  & 27 August 2025
These webinars will be delivered online via Zoom.  You will be sent the link upon registration.

$450 per person inclusive of GST
Payment in full is required before commencement of the training.

• "I highly recommend Abdullah and his 6 week accounting course!  The course was thorough and very informative. The cost of the course does not reflect how good the course was and how much I learnt. The resources and course exercise files were very helpful, well thought out and worth the cost of the course". 

• "Abdullah is very genuine and I can see he is a really good teacher as he is willing to go above and beyond to help all his students".

• "I highly recommend the accounting course which has lead me to want to enrol in his payroll course".

• "Thoroughly enjoyed and learned so much from the Xero Accounting course and Xero Payroll Course.  Abdullah is a great teacher and you can see how passionate he is with teaching".

• "Have just finished Abdullah’s 6 week Xero accounting class. He is an excellent teacher who very patiently explains what to do through a practical and very hands on approach. I do not have an accounting background at all but found the class extremely useful"

• Xero Software will be provided for Free for learning purposes only

• You will also gain access to Accounting for Absolute Beginners E-book for one year

• Access to all course videos and learning resources for one year

• 24/7 Access to your course from anywhere

• Free ongoing one-to-one support via email or Zoom meeting by prior appointment

Registration process
Payment online is by Debit or Credit Card: VISA, Mastercard or American Express only and there are 3 easy steps to complete the online booking process.

Our registration platform is hosted by Lil Regie, our NZ based booking agent. Upon completing your registration by hitting the blue 'Confirm Booking' button, you will receive an automated email confirming the booking and amount paid by credit card. A GST Tax Invoice showing your payment in full will also be emailed to you.

If you have any issues or questions about your booking, please contact Feona Horrex on 0272 040425 or email: feona@grow.co.nz

We work hard to ensure that all workshops are cost effective by automating our systems. If you require an invoice (rather than paying by debit or credit card) there will be a $25.00 inc GST surcharge for this, and you will need to supply:

• The full name and postal address required to appear on the invoice.

• The contact name and email of the person(s) responsible for authorising this expense and approving payment.

• Any purchase order references required on vendor invoices.

Please email feona@grow.co.nz  if you would like to reserve a place, as our workshops fill quickly.

What happens if you have to cancel?
We know that sometimes your plans can change for many different reasons. Should you be unable to attend, a substitute delegate is welcome to attend at no extra cost. If a substitute delegate is not available and you need to cancel your registration, please be aware of the following:

Up to 7 days prior to the event you will be provided a refund of your registration cost, less a $20.00 inc GST per attendee service charge.
 
If you cancel within 7 days of the event, you are not eligible to receive a refund. Please note: should your registration not be paid by the time of the event, you are still liable to make the payment. Unpaid accounts may be passed over to our debt collection agency and additional costs may be incurred.
 
All cancellations must be received in writing via email.
 
Training is cancellable by GROW with 3 days’ notice if a minimum number of attendees is not met and full refunds will be provided.
 
Please note: GROW Ltd reserves the right to make any amendments that we may deem to be in the best interest of the forum – it is however very unlikely and we will notify you as soon as possible should this occur.

For more information see our full Terms of Trade.