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Chartered Accountants Ireland (The Institute) is a membership body representing over 30,000 influential members throughout the globe. Our role is to educate, represent and support our members. Our members work in senior positions in practice and industry. We are committed to restoring confidence at every level of the economy. We work with governments and businesses to raise awareness of the importance of sound financial advice.

Placement Details

Boot Camp is an online programme for Transition Year and Senior Cycle students who want to develop their accounting and business skills. Developed by Chartered Accountants Ireland, the leading professional accountancy body in Ireland, Boot Camp enables students to master the fundamentals of accounting and to develop their problem solving, business and leadership skills.

• For Transition Year students, it is an ideal introduction to the world of accounting and business.
• For 5th and 6th Year Leaving Certificate Accounting students, the programme is an invaluable revision course in the basics of double entry bookkeeping and accounts preparation.

Boot Camp is open to schools and to individual students.

What will you learn in Boot Camp?

Boot Camp comprises two key elements:

• A foundation course which helps students master the basics of financial accounting.
• An interactive business game which helps students to develop their problem solving and leadership skills.

The Foundation Course

The foundation course will help you build a rock solid foundation in the fundamentals of accounting. If you are interested in accounting, or are thinking about studying accounting for Leaving Certificate, then we highly recommend Boot Camp Foundation. The curriculum is organised in 5 "Days" but, as it is a self-paced course, it can be completed in whatever time frame you wish. It is a stand-alone course, complete with a Workbook, expert video tutorials, online quizzes, recap summaries and practical exercises. In short, everything you need to get a head-start in accounting.

By the end of Boot Camp Foundation, you should be able to prepare a basic set of final accounts for a business. On completion of the Foundation, you can take our Boot Camp Graduation exam to test your newly acquired financial accounting skills!

How to Apply

If you are a Teacher, TY Coordinator or Guidance Counsellor and would like to run Boot Camp in your school, please contact Veronica Byrne, our Schools Programme Coordinator: [email protected]

Boot Camp is open to all students. No previous knowledge of business or accounting is required for either the Boot Camp Foundation or The Boot Camp Challenge. It is not necessary to have taken Business Studies in Junior Cycle to enrol in Boot Camp.

Full details here.