The purpose of this qualification is to:

• Provide the learner with the knowledge, understanding, skills and experience to become a bookkeeper.
• Equip the learners with a qualification that can be used in the field of accounting.
• Provide employers and others with an adequate basis for assuring that those learners gaining the qualification are competent to act as Bookkeepers, providing accounting and financial management support in medium to large organisations or to act as a senior Bookkeeper in a smaller organisation under the supervision of an outsourced Chartered Accountant or Accounting officer.
• Encourage the widest possible access to the accounting profession and other accounting qualifications by making it possible for the following learners to obtain a bookkeeping qualification:
• Those who have performed an accounting and/or bookkeeping function in their organisation for some time without a formal qualification in accounting.
• Those who have recently taken up a position as a support staff member in the Accounting. section of an organisation.