QuickBooks for Small Business Success and Career Advancement

About This Course
This introductory course provides hands-on experience with the latest version of QuickBooks, focusing on essential skills for managing small business finances. Topics include setting up and managing a chart of accounts, creating and maintaining vendor, item, and customer lists, recording cash sales, invoicing, managing payments and deposits, performing bank reconciliations, and processing bill payments. You will also learn to generate reports and create graphs to visualize financial data. This course is ideal for those aiming to build foundational QuickBooks skills for professional or personal bookkeeping needs.

Course Requirements

• Basic computer and Windows knowledge
• Flash drive
• Textbook: QuickBooks Online by Patricia Hartley, MBA
• Students must activate their My Northshore account prior to the first class

Bookkeeping and Accounting Skills for Business and Career Success

About This Course
This introductory course provides a foundational understanding of bookkeeping and accounting, focusing on the complete accounting cycle. You will learn how to analyze and record financial transactions using debits, credits, and T accounts. Key topics include posting transactions to the journal and ledger, preparing trial balances, making necessary adjustments, and generating financial statements. By the end of the course, you will have a working knowledge of essential accounting principles and be able to accurately track financial activities for a business.

Delivery Format
Instructor-led virtual. Please refer to the schedule below for more details.

Course Requirements

• Basic computer and Windows knowledge is required
• Flash drive
• Required textbook - College Accounting: A Practical Approach Chapters 1-12 with Study Guide and Working Papers
• Students must activate their myNorthshore account prior to the first class