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Superstar Graduate includes over 6 hours of practical training filled with real-world examples relevant to graduates and accounting practices today. The course includes a Course Workbook.
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What if your Graduates started work understanding the basics. Imagine the time and money you could save.

The Superstar Graduate course gives graduates all the information they need to understand the accounting world and how they can add value to it.

Superstar Graduate provides public practices with a comprehensive training program that focuses on the key attributes, requirements and responsibilities of a graduate. It covers the fundamental concepts and theories needed for early-career professionals to hit the ground running and become a valuable member of the team much more quickly.

Provide your early-career professionals with all the information they need to add value to your business.

  • Streamlined

    This course is designed to streamline the training of early-career professionals, including graduates, interns and undergraduates, and accelerate their learning and understanding of the fundamentals of accounting and how a practice operates.

  • Comprehensive

    Covering both soft skills and accounting processes and theories, the course aims to help early-career professionals understand the role they have in a practice, their responsibilities and the importance, both to them and their team, of delivering quality, consistent work.

  • Practical

    Using practical examples this course aims to develop well-rounded, self-motivated team members that understand the importance of client service and provide the fundamentals needed for both the practice and the team members to achieve success.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • Welcome to Superstar Graduate

    • How to use this course

    • Course Outline

    • Before we begin...
  • 2

    1. What is a Superstar Graduate?

    • Attributes of a Superstar Graduate

    • Self-review your way to becoming a Superstar

    • Resourcefulness and Problem Solving
  • 3

    2. Personal Organisation and Effectiveness

    • A day in the life of a graduate

    • Tips and Tricks to manage workflow and effectiveness

    • A Reminder about Professionalism
  • 4

    3. How an Accounting Practice really works

    • The Leverage Model

    • Accounting Practice Basics

    • What do you do? – Compliance, audit, tax, advisory, business services

    • The Changing Role of Accounting Practices
  • 5

    4. Accounting Theory Basics

    • Financial Statements

    • The Balance Sheet Approach

    • Cash vs Accruals

    • Tax Reconciliations – from the accounts to the tax return
  • 6

    5. All About Structures

    • Sole Traders and Partnerships

    • Company

    • Unit Trust

    • Discretionary Trusts

    • Considerations in recommending a Structure
  • 7

    6. Workpapers

    • What are workpapers and why are they important?

    • What makes a good workpapers?

    • How to add value to the compliance process
  • 8

    7. We need to talk about the Balance Sheet (because it's really , really important)

    • The Balance Sheet Approach: recap

    • Current Assets - Working the balance sheet: review, reconciliation and workpapers

    • Non-Current Assets - Working the balance sheet: review, reconciliation and workpapers

    • Current Liabilities - Working the balance sheet: review, reconciliation and workpapers

    • Non-Current Liabilities - Working the balance sheet: review, reconciliation and workpapers

    • Equity - Working the balance sheet: review, reconciliation and workpapers
  • 9

    8. Now, let's talk about the Profit & Loss

    • The Balance Sheet Approach and the Profit & Loss

    • Income and Cost of Sales - Profit & Loss accounts: which to review, why and workpapers

    • Expenses - Profit & Loss accounts: which to review, why and workpapers
  • 10

    9. How to analyse the accounts and add value

    • The Importance of 'What it all Means'

    • Analysis: Trend, Vertical and Ratios

    • A quick note on the ITR
  • 11

    10. Excel Basics

    • Excel in Practice

    • Part 1: Useful formulas, tips and tricks

    • Part 2: Useful formulas, tips and tricks
  • 12

    Next steps

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Founder

Allyson Pannier

With almost 20 years’ experience in business services and advisory and a passion for practice process improvement, Allyson started Ally Advisory to help accounting practices to progress and grow through the methods she has used throughout her career to get results for clients. Allyson has worked with corporate boards, not-for-profits and large private clients groups from a range of industries . Helping improve internal systems and processes, improve practice efficiency and working to develop and grow staff have always been the parts of her work that energises her. Allyson decided to turn this passion into a business to help other accountants and bookkeepers work smarter, not harder.