All-provider course timetable

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The AAT Level 3, Diploma in Accounting, introduces to students to more complex financial processes and accounting tasks, the principles of VAT, professional ethics and develops their spreadsheet skills.

AAT Level 4, Professional Diploma in accounting.

Students will be placed on the public day release programme with the external provider

Once you have registered here you will need to complete the application form at the back of the briefing pack. This pack is available on our website https://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/training/professional-qualifications/aat/university-programme The remaining dates will be added once they have been confirmed

The rights and responsibilities outlined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts increasingly impact upon the University’s academic and administrative work. This course explores the key concepts in the Data Protection Act 1998 and illustrates how the ‘data protection principles’ affect various day-to-day working scenarios. It introduces the fundamental aspects of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and details the ways in which the University handles responses to individual requests under both Acts. Finally, it outlines various records management and information security measures that can aid compliance with the legislation and lead to a more efficient working environment.

The last two years before retirement are a good time to prepare for personal change in readiness for leaving employment. This programme will include detailed information on occupational pensions, financial advice and planning, tax and legal issues, as well as the emotional and practical issues accompanying retirement. You will have the opportunity to share information and discuss any concerns about retirement in a relaxed setting

With the introduction of e-Sales, and the centralising of setting up customers in Accounts Receivable, there is little need for departments to set up or amend customers in AR. This central service is designed to reduce the administrative burden on the departments, eliminate customer duplication, ensure consistent set up and identify situations where credit checks might be required or where eSales (WPM) would be a better alternative to conventional invoicing.

If a department wishes to maintain this set up within the department a new AR Manager responsibility will be required. To receive this responsibility you must attend this compulsory master class. The master class will provide you with the opportunity to practice setting up and amending customers within CUFS. Upon completion of the course you will receive your AR Manager responsibility.

Please Note: Departments are encouraged to either use e-Sales, or take advantage of this central service. There is no need to register; simply complete and email the form through as and when you have a new customer or amendment request (http://www.finance.admin.cam.ac.uk/staff-and-departmental-services/forms)

eSales Departments are encouraged to consider if using the CUFS module to set up and raise invoices to private individuals is the best option and whether it would be more appropriate to use the University’s online store. For more information please see the eSales website or watch the three short videos below which give an overview of what the eSales system looks like and what it can do.

Introduction to the Online Store

Events and Conferences in the Online Store

Product Catalogues in the Online Store

Microsoft Excel is the chosen spreadsheet package as it is a popular choice, both on Apple Mac and PC. This is an instructor-led course for absolute beginners. There is a self-paced Excel Beginners course for those who prefer to learn at their own pace.

An informative session to provides attendees with an overview of Estate Management, with information on the structure, our sites, useful forms and the benefits available to employees. It also provides an opportunity for staff to meet people from across Estate Management.

This module introduces the use of R, a free programming language originally developed for statistical data analysis. In this course, we will use R through R Studio, a user-friendly interface.

Students will learn:

• Ways of reading spreadsheet data into R
• The notion of data type
• How to manipulate data in major data types
• How to draw basic graphs and figures with ggplot2
• How to summarise data using descriptive statistics
• How to perform basic inferential statistics (e.g. the t-test).

This module is suitable for students who have no prior experience in programming, but participants will be assumed to have a good working knowledge of basic statistical techniques using another software package (for example Stata or SPSS).

Why this course might make a difference
While the first year report is arguably the first step in completing your PhD, the process of taking this first step can be fraught with uncertainty, particularly if you’re still ‘finding your feet’.

Whether you are feeling confused about the first year report – or just want to become a more effective writer – the overall purpose of this course is to help you improve the writing both of your first year report and of your research in general.

Outcomes:
Complementing your departmental and supervisor support in this endeavour, this course has two broad outcomes:

1) To help you understand:

• The requirements of the first year report, so that you know why you’re being asked to fulfil these requirements.
• The writing process, so that you know what to do to move to the next stage within this process.
• Your work patterns as a writer, so that you can experiment with making adjustments to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your writing.

2) To help you make progress with your writing, by working through the practical techniques of:

• ‘Writing warm-ups’, to quell your internal editor so that you write more freely;
• ‘Writing in layers’, to help you develop an overall structure to your thesis, so that writing feels less daunting and you take a step towards procrastinating less.

Feedback from 2016-17:

“It helped me benchmark my progress against others, understand my specific challenges and get motivated to just write now, perfect later.”

“It really got me started on writing and gave me a better sense of where I was and where I was heading with my first year report and PhD overall.”

“To hear what are the expectations for the first year report, and what it should be included there.”

This course will constitute a practical introduction to experimental method and design suitable for students from any discipline who have had limited experience of empirical methods but who wish to be able to read and understand the experimental literature or to undertake their own experimental studies. The course includes:

• A theoretical introduction to the concepts and practices involved in experimental research in the human sciences, including ethical considerations;
• An introduction to experimental design and to appropriate analytic techniques;
• A practical component that can be undertaken away from the laboratory; and
• An introduction to issues involved in writing up results.

At the end of the module, students will be equipped with the fundamental knowledge required to design and evaluate an experiment.