Foundation ProgramsFinancial Analysis for Decision-Makers
Instructor: Mahmoud Chehade
Turn financial statements into decisions, with the analysis skills managers and business owners rely on.
Accounting Foundations is our accounting course for beginners in Dubai, built for career changers, graduates and new accountants who are starting from zero. Learners in Dubai join a live online cohort that fits around work or study, and companies can bring it in-company to train new finance staff at their Dubai offices.
These are coaching programs, so the duration above is a guide rather than a fixed timetable. The pace and the number of sessions are set around your current level and how quickly each topic lands, so you finish genuinely able to apply the material rather than simply on schedule.
Instructor: Mahmoud Chehade
Not sure you are ready? Ask us first and we will tell you honestly.

Training a team? We tailor this program to your systems and industry, delivered live online or in person.
Dubai draws people from everywhere, and many arrive in a role next to finance rather than in it: office administrators handling invoices, sales coordinators tracking receivables, graduates whose degree was in something else. Employers here expect even a junior accountant to understand the full cycle, because small teams in free zone and mainland companies cannot carry someone who only knows one step of it.
The program builds that from the ground up: the accounting cycle end to end, recording transactions, preparing core financial statements and reading what they say. With UAE VAT at 5% in place since 2018, the records a junior accountant keeps feed tax returns from the first day, so accurate books are the habit that gets a beginner trusted with more.
Learners join a live online cohort from Dubai, so the course fits around a current job, and companies can deliver it in-company to new finance hires at their premises. Sessions are taught live, in Arabic or English, by Mahmoud Chehade, who spent 30 years leading finance across the UAE and the Gulf before moving into training full time.
Our office is in Beirut. Dubai is served through live online cohorts and in-company training delivered at your premises. See all accounting training in Dubai.
In Dubai, Accounting Foundations costs the program fee shown on this page, which covers the whole program rather than a single session. Because it is coaching, the plan follows your starting point, so tell us your goal and we will confirm the program and its cost before you commit. Companies in Dubai training several new hires get a tailored rate.
For learners in Dubai, the multi-week duration on this page is a guide rather than a fixed timetable. Sessions and pace follow how quickly each part of the accounting cycle lands for you, so two beginners can finish on different schedules. The aim is that you leave able to do the work. Tell us your situation and we will map a timeline that fits your week in Dubai.
No, the accounting course for beginners in Dubai requires no prior experience. It is a foundational program built for career changers, students and new accountants, and it starts from zero. If you have picked up some bookkeeping in a Dubai job already, that is fine too: the coaching moves quickly through what you know.
It starts with where you are in Dubai right now: your background, your current job and the role you want next. We build the plan around the gaps that matter, so topics you grasp quickly move on and the ones that hold you back get the time they need. That is the difference between coaching and a fixed syllabus.
In Dubai the course runs live online, or in person as in-company training at an employer’s own premises for new finance staff. Our only office is in Beirut, so there is no Dubai classroom. Every session is live and interactive, never pre-recorded, so you can ask questions as soon as something does not make sense.
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