AI-augmented accounting assistant
Keep a company's day-to-day accounts under the revised SYSCOHADA standard.
- Block code
- FINA-CPT
The format
Three months, two hours a day.
- Certificate programme · 128 h
- Two hours a day
- 250,000 F — the same fee for all sixty
- All in the same format, at the same fee.
The qualification
A CQP under MINEFOP accreditation.
- Leads to the CQP — Certificat de Qualification Professionnelle, which the ministry used to call the AQP.
- Awarded under MINEFOP accreditation.
- The full programme for the same profession remains open to anyone aiming for the complete qualification.
Sessions
A new session opens every quarter.
Next intake: Monday 5 October, with enrolment open until 2 October. The following one starts on 4 January 2027.
- First-quarter intake — enrolment closes on 2 October5 Oct.
- Second-quarter intake — 20274 Jan.
Objectives
What you will be able to do.
Record a transaction in double entry and check that it balances
Find your way around the revised SYSCOHADA chart of accounts and its class logic
Keep journals, the general ledger and the trial balance
Account for purchases, sales, bank, cash and VAT
Carry out a bank reconciliation and deal with discrepancies
Set up and use accounting software, including assisted data entry
Carry out period-end work and read a SYSCOHADA balance sheet
Programme
Four modules.
Module 0132 h Module 0232 h Day-to-day transactions
Module 0332 h Accounting software and assisted data entry
Module 0432 h Period-end work
Who it is for
Who it is aimed at.
- Complete beginners who are comfortable with figures. No accounting prerequisites: the block starts from double-entry bookkeeping.
Afterwards
Where it leads.
- Accounting assistant, assistant accountant, SME accountant. This is the entry block in the programme that employers in Cameroon recruit most.
Method
How it works.
Systematic alternation between short theory sessions and practical work, with most of the time spent on practice
Progression from simple to complex: each module builds on what was learnt in the previous one
Realistic role-plays drawn from Cameroonian business cases
Considered use of generative AI as a working tool, in line with the common core
Regular formative assessments and a final integrative project drawing on all four modules
Assessment
How you are assessed.
Formative assessment at the end of each module (graded role-play and practical exercises)
Practical work assessed against competency sheets
Final integrative project, presented and defended before the trainer
One graded assignment per module in the online course space
Tools
What you work with.
Accounting software compliant with the revised SYSCOHADA (Sage, Odoo or equivalent)
Spreadsheet for control statements and reconciliations
An automatic invoice recognition tool
Revised SYSCOHADA chart of accounts and application guide
Sets of real, anonymised accounting source documents
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