CIBA CPD · Specialisation course
Become the bookkeeper a farmer can't afford to lose.
Farming is where ordinary bookkeeping stops working: once-a-year income, a herd that changes value on its own, the diesel rebate, the First Schedule, and the farm and the household drawing on one account. This course makes sure you get every transaction right, so a farmer's books can be trusted by owners, accountants, auditors and SARS.
CIBA recognised by SAQA, SARS & CIPC
10 CPD units (Accounting)
Certificate of completion
Built on IAS 41 & IFRS for SMEs
Get a farm's books right and you become the specialist a farmer cannot afford to lose. Get it wrong and profit is misstated, tax is calculated on the wrong base, and the rebate goes unclaimed. After this course you can:
Set up and maintain farm books from source documents all the way to financial statements.
Handle the transactions that recur in a farming operation, correctly.
Account for a growing, changing herd under IAS 41 and Section 34 of IFRS for SMEs.
Project and manage cash flow around once-a-year harvest income.
Meet the VAT, income tax, PAYE, UIF and SDL requirements specific to farming.
Claim the diesel rebate and apply the First Schedule provisions for livestock and produce.
Separate farm money from household money and keep sound controls and ethics.
This course is for bookkeepers in practice who keep the books of one or more farming clients; farmers, smallholders and farm managers who keep their own books; finance and admin staff at agricultural co-operatives and mid-sized farming enterprises; practice staff who prepare or review farming clients' books; and professional accountants who want a structured reference for agricultural engagements.
It builds from first principles, so no prior agricultural knowledge is assumed. It is not a farm-management or agricultural-economics course.
Self-paced and online on the CIBA learning platform. No set dates and no live sessions. One or two chapters a sitting works well; spread over about two weeks, the material sticks.
Start immediately and work through it in your own time, on any device.
Click an answer and see at once whether it's right, and why.
Real South African examples across grain, livestock, dairy and agri-tourism.
Ready to apply to a real set of farm books the day you finish.
Twenty chapters following the real bookkeeping workflow on a South African farm, from the first source document to the reporting-date financial statements.
Master the one specialisation most bookkeepers get wrong, and become the person every farming client depends on.
No. The course builds from first principles, so no prior agricultural knowledge is assumed. It is not a farm-management or agricultural-economics course; it is bookkeeping, adapted to a farm.
Self-study. It is online and self-paced on the CIBA learning platform, with no set dates and no live sessions. You can start immediately.
About 21 hours across 20 chapters. A chapter a day or two, spread over roughly two weeks, works well.
A CIBA certificate of completion with 10 verifiable CPD units in the Accounting category.
Bookkeepers with farming clients, farmers and managers who keep their own books, co-operative and practice staff, and accountants who want a structured agricultural reference.
Yes. The R1 800 applies to everyone, members and non-members alike.
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