Award in Payroll for Business Level 1

This course is designed to give you a comprehensive range of knowledge and the practical skills used as a payroll processor.

What will I learn?

You will learn how to record financial payroll transactions in a manual and computerised environment and in line with real-time information requirements. You will calculate pay data and process that data including contributions to work-based pension schemes, using day-to-day basic payroll processing skills. You will understand the importance of maintaining accuracy, security and confidentiality when performing any payroll tasks.

How will I be assessed?

You will be assessed with 3 pilot and 3 final assessments: two on your knowledge of the principles of payroll preparation, two on the fundamentals of payroll processing and two on computerised payroll processing.

What may it lead to?

You could progress on to a higher level qualification such as AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting or you could complete the Level 1 in Computerised Bookkeeping.

Entry requirements

There are no formal entry requirements; however, you should have a good level of literacy and numeracy. Some basic computer skills would also be useful.

This course will run for a morning a week for 12 weeks.