LCCIEB's strong links with business and commerce via the International Chamber movement
ensure that the comprehensive range of business examinations are up-to-date and relevant
for the jobs of today.
Book-keeping and Accounts SECOND LEVEL
Second Level Book-keeping and Accounts takes the Book-keeping process a stage further.
Candidates are required to know how to prepare and interpret accounts for sole traders,
partnerships, non-trading organizations and limited companies. At this level, a candidate
is expected to begin to be aware of the basic techniques used in the interpretation of
accounts as well as of the tools used in their mechanical construction.
Accounting THIRD LEVEL
Third Level Accounting is an advanced examination which requires candidates
to have a thorough grasp of the entire accounting process. Candidates need to understand
accounting information deriving from all sources - manual, mechanical and electronic - and
need to be able to prepare accounting statements and data in accordance with basic accounting
conventions and current accounting practice. They are also expected to be able to interpret
accounting information in a more sophisticated way than at the lower levels.
Cost Accounting SECOND AND THIRD LEVEL
The aim of these examinations is to test knowledge and understanding of:
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The purposes of cost accounting, the terminology used and the methods by which the costs of operations, processes, departments, products or services are ascertained using the absorption principle. |
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Elementary aspects of the marginal principle, optional techniques and costing systems. |
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The methods, principles and techniques by which both planned and actual costs of operations, processes, departments, products or services are established. |
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Responsibility for effective use of resources involving control by variance analysis. |
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Relevant costs for decision making. |
The aim of the examination is to test the candidate's knowledge and understanding
of the basic principles involved in short-term cost behavior, short- and long-term decision-making
and short-term profit control, cash management and product cost ascertainment.
Business Statistics SECOND AND THIRD LEVEL
The aim of this examination is to test the candidate's understanding of the
nature, sources, collection, tabulation and evaluation of business data, including graphical
methods of representation of business statistics and the types of chart most frequently used
in industrial and commercial concerns. Emphasis will be placed on the use of statistics as
an aid to the analysis of business problems.
Advanced Business Calculations THIRD LEVEL
The aim of the examination is to test a candidate's ability to solve
arithmetical problems associated with the financial aspects of business and commerce including
stock exchange, company shares, business ownership and bankruptcy.