Office administration
Accounts secretary
Twelve months to combine two jobs in one: secretarial work and bookkeeping, a profile that small and medium-sized businesses look for.
State diploma · DQPPre-registration open
Free pre-registration, with no commitment. Fees can be paid in instalments.
- Duration
- 12 months
- Two intakes a year
- Entry level
- Probatoire or Bac
- Required on entry
- Qualification
- DQP
- Awarded by the State
- Next intake
- 12 October 2026
- Pre-registration open, classes begin in 2 days
The job, day to day
In a small or medium-sized business, the same person often handles both secretarial work and day-to-day bookkeeping. The accounts secretary welcomes visitors, drafts and files documents, but also records invoices, monitors cash and bank accounts, prepares simple payrolls and routine returns. This dual skill set makes the role valuable and versatile.
The course teaches you secretarial techniques and office software, then general accounting under the system in force in the OHADA zone: supporting documents, journals, the general ledger, the trial balance and bank reconciliation. You also learn invoicing, customer and supplier follow-up, the basics of payroll and how to use accounting software.
Case studies follow the accounts of a real business over a full year. You leave able to run the secretarial and day-to-day accounting of an organisation, and to assist an accountant or an accounting firm.
What you will be able to do
Record accounting entries
Documents, journals and ledger under the OHADA system.
Monitor cash and bank
Receipts, payments and reconciliations.
Manage customers and suppliers
Invoicing, due dates and reminders.
Prepare a simple payroll
Payslips, contributions and routine returns.
Use accounting software
Data entry, reports and financial statements.
Run a secretariat
Reception, mail, writing and filing.
Where this course can lead
Accounts secretary in an SME
A company's secretarial work and day-to-day accounts.
Accounts assistant
Entering and monitoring accounts in an accounting department.
Accounting firms
Keeping the firm's client accounts.
A State-recognised qualification
The DQP is a State qualification, awarded under the authority of the Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training. It officially certifies your professional skills.
- Qualification
- DQP
- Authority
- MINEFOP
- Completed in
- 12 months
Two intakes a year
- Next intake
12 October 2026
Confirmed date
Pre-registration open, classes begin in 2 days
No closing date. You can still join up to fourteen days after classes begin.
- Following intake
January 2027
Exact day to be confirmed by the centre
Provisional date, pre-registration open
Pre-registering already reserves your place.
Free pre-registration Reserve your place for 12 October 2026
Pre-registration is free and carries no commitment. The registrar will call you back to confirm your place.
- Free
- No commitment
- Nothing to pay online
What happens next
- You start here, then complete your file in a few minutes.
- The registrar calls you back to confirm your place.
- You pay the fees at the registrar's office in Fouda, in instalments if you wish.
Office administration