Just be able to find your way around the keyboard...

You don't have to be a great typist to do accounting. Two-finger typing while searching for the keys is absolutely fine - you'll get faster with practice.

And have a few basic skills on a computer...

If you can do these it will be enough:

• Recognise and turn on/off a computer, monitor, printer, etc
• Understand and use a mouse
• Use a keyboard
• Understand and recognise disk drives and the media they use
• Understand the difference between hardware and software
• Understand the difference between program, folder and file
• Select the appropriate software program for a task
• Know what the Desktop is, and Icons
• Understand the concept of Menus and how to navigate them
• Open a program (application) using the Start button
• Understand the concept of toolbars, toolbar buttons; and the relationship of toolbar buttons to menu selections
• Use Help screens in software programs
• Maximise/minimise a window
• Resize a window by dragging its borders
• Switch between open windows
• Understand scrolling/scroll bars
• Exit/close a program
• Print a document

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Still not sure?

Don’t give up!

Certainly, to get the most out of our Workshop you should have the majority of the skills listed above - but if you have a few missing they can probably be learned fairly quickly.

Call us and we will soon know if you can comfortably handle our training (with a bit of extra help from us). And if you do need more training, we'll see if we can find you a local introductory computer class.

Often they are free...