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[02 October 2008]

Fasset’s Scarce Skills in the Fasset Sector Guide 2007/2008 has been devised to assist educationalists, learners, parents, policymakers and education and training providers to  understand and...

 
 




 
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Welcome to the Institute of Certified Bookkeeper's (ICB) website. The ICB was established in 1931 with the aim of promoting bookkeeping qualifications and membership of a professional body in Southern Africa.

The ICB conducts professional examinations for those persons who intend following a career in bookkeeping and accounting. Qualifications that are offered through accredited training providers include Accounting Clerk, Bookkeeper, Accounting Technicians and Small Business Financial Management. Various assessments in skills programmes and short courses are also conducted, namely Payroll Administration and Computerised
Bookkeeping.

Completion of any of these qualifications or skills programmes and short courses leads to professional membership of the ICB with designations awarded depending on what course of study has been followed.

Bookkeeping provides a system to manage the accounts of a business. Accounting activities administered by bookkeepers are many and various and include; purchase accounting, sales accounting & credit control,
accounting for stock, cash & banking, nominal ledger, accounting for VAT, payroll accounting and presenting reports using the accounting database.

The ICB is recognised by Fasset as a Quality Assurance Partner (QAP) for the qualifications under the ICB's scope, as well as the Chief Executive being appointed as Chair of a Standards Generating Body (SGB) an member of a second SGB and formally a vice-chair of a National Standards Body. Involvement with bodies such as these helps to ensure that all the qualifications offered by the ICB, and held by its members, are relevant to their continued employment.

Whilst the ICB is based in South Africa, assessments/examinations are conducted throughout southern Africa.

Please contact the ICB's head office in Cape Town for additional information either via, telephone, facsimile, email or post.

Finally it should be noted that the ICB is associated with two complementary organisations, namely the Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) and the IAB, both based in the United Kingdom.

 
 ICB SETA Survey

In order that the ICB may provide a better service to our members and learners with regards to the various training and benefits offered by the various SETAs, we need to know to which SETA our members belong. For example, did you know that by completing and submitting your employers workplace skills plan and annual training report to your SETA, you are entitled receive 50% of your skills levy back as a mandatory grant. Some SETAs then provide discretionary grants, or learnership implementation cash grants to their employers.

We encourage you to complete the ICB Survey at the following address - http://s-gorlh-49390.sgizmo.com – this will only take about 3 minutes to complete and will assist the ICB in continuing to improve the services and benefits on offer to our membership base.


 

The Institute's vision to ensure quality provision and qualifications in the fields of Accounting Clerk, Bookkeeper and Accounting Technicians and to ensure that all personnel in these positions belong to a professional body that can offer Continued Professional Education (CPE) and has a disciplinary procedure in place to ensure that the profession is not brought into disrepute.

 
 
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Please Comment
The Revised Draft Regulations for the Tax Practitioners Bill has been made available for public comment. All comments are due by 15 July. This Institute of Certified Bookkeepers would like to respond to this Bill and requests members to submit their comments to the Chief Executive by 10 July in order that a detailed submission may be made on behalf of all members.
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