Advanced Certificate in Xero

• Health-checking an existing Xero file
• Fixing common setup problems
• Tidying a messy chart of accounts

• VAT settings and schemes at a high level
• Preparing a return step by step
• Checking a return before it goes anywhere

• The fixed asset register
• Running depreciation
• Recording disposals correctly

• Invoicing in other currencies
• Currency gains and losses in plain English
• When multi-currency is worth switching on

• Custom report layouts
• Tracking categories for real insight
• Budgets against actuals in Xero

• A repeatable month-end checklist
• Closing the period with confidence

You need its skills: invoicing, bank feeds and reconciliation. If you use Xero confidently at work already, you can start here. If not, do the Xero course first, or take both together in the Advanced Xero Bundle.

Xero is a subscription product with a free trial, and the course exercises are designed to work with one. If you already use Xero at work, even better.

No, and be wary of any course that claims to. You learn how to prepare, check and file a return in Xero. Advice on your specific VAT position should come from an accountant, and current rates always come from HMRC.

No. Payroll has its own course, the Certificate in Xero Payroll. It sits alongside this one in the Advanced Xero Bundle.

It is self-paced. Most learners work through it in short sessions around their job, and lifetime access means there is no deadline.