Audit Paper Trail: Best Practices for Financial Documentation

This course provides a comprehensive guide to establishing and maintaining a solid audit paper trail. You will learn essential documentation techniques to support financial records, including income, expenses, and asset management. The course covers key topics such as understanding audit triggers, which explains who gets audited and why, and income documentation, which details the types and best practices for accurate reporting. You will also learn about record retention, including how long to keep financial records and documents, as well as efficient filing systems to help organize documents for quick access and compliance. Additionally, the course covers expense management, focusing on how to properly document business and office expenses, including those related to sub-contractors and fixed assets. It will also explore best practices for tracking income and expenses related to rental properties. The course will teach you how to develop internal procedures for a robust audit trail to ensure accuracy and accountability. By the end of this course, participants will have the skills to create and maintain a reliable audit trail, ensuring compliance and reducing audit risk. Course Requirement: Students must activate their My Northshore account prior to the first class.

SHRM Essentials of Human Resources Management

THIS CLASS WILL BE OFFERED FALL 20225

Knowledge of HR essentials can make you a better manager, protect your company from needless litigation, and help advance your career. In cooperation with the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), this course covers real-life HR issues including employment law, selecting qualified employees, compensation, the employee performance process, and much more. SHRM Essentials of Human Resources program provides a foundational overview of HR practices and behaviors. Through real-world applications and scenarios, you will be introduced to fundamental HR topics to help you effectively approach the challenging situations that you face in the workplace. Developed by SHRM, the world’s largest HR association and leading advocate for HR professionals, the SHRM Essentials of Human Resources course helps you discover the key value HR brings to the workplace. Whether you’re a student, new to HR, or in a small business environment, our course will help you develop the critical HR competencies and learn how to apply them on the job. Earn a Certificate of Completion from SHRM and earn 1.5 CEUs. Cost of class includes required digital course materials.

Achieving Success with Difficult People Learn to see things from others' viewpoints based on their needs, values, beliefs, experiences, skills, knowledge, and self-interests. Learn to approach difficult situations by answering the questions: who, what, where, when, how, and why to better understand who your difficult people are, what they're like, how you react to them, and their response to your actions. By the time you finish this course, you will understand that assertiveness involves taking responsibility when meeting your needs in a way that preserves the dignity and rights of others. This course is self-guided online. https://www.ed2go.com/nscc/online-courses/achieving-success-with-difficult-people/ Online classes begin the second Tuesday of the month.

Entrepreneurship: Start-up and Business Owner Management Develop enterprise management skills for starting your own business or to gain a better understanding of how to operate an established business. Learn how to use financial techniques, legal structures, funding sources, intellectual property law, operations, marketing, advertising, finances, and cash flow management to grow a start-up business. This course meets the 150 instructional hours required to take the Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) certification from Certiport. Exam voucher is included. Prerequisites: Keyboard and computer skills, comfort in navigating the Internet. https://careertraining.ed2go.com/northshorecc/training-programs/entrepreneurship-start-up-business-owner-management-voucher-included/ Online classes begin the second Tuesday of each month. .

Microsoft Office Associate Learn to use the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) from beginner to advanced level. Build expertise through hands-on exercises, in-depth materials, supplemental video demonstrations, and quizzes and exams. Must be familiar with a PC, Windows, and able to launch and close programs, and manage digital files and folders. Must be taken on a PC with MS Office 365 or 2021, Macs and Chromebooks are not compatible, access to email. Prerequisites: Familiarity with a PC and in a Windows environment. You must also be able to launch and close programs, navigate to information stored on the computer and manage electronic files and folders. https://careertraining.ed2go.com/northshorecc/training-programs/microsoft-office-specialist-associate-certification-training/ Online classes begin the second Tuesday of each month.

Professional Grant Writing Intended for those with prior grant writing experience to enhance their professional abilities. Learn ways current trends can impact the distribution of funds in private and public sectors, how to match grant funders and programs, missions, cultures, and norms, and best practices to create an evaluation plan using community resources. Prepare a budget with appropriate costs, cash, in-kind or leveraged matches. Practice communication skills, grant proposal submission, and write persuasive case statements. Earn 90 GPCI Education points towards certification or maintaining certification, exam not included. https://careertraining.ed2go.com/northshorecc/training-programs/professional-grant-writing/ Online classes begin the second Tuesday of each month.

Time Management: Goal Setting and Workplace Efficiency  Good time management is the stress-reducing oxygen you need to achieve excellence in everyday life. It is about focusing on the right thing and doing it right. When you become goal-oriented you will find yourself managing your time more effectively. Hence, goal setting is one of the most important time management techniques. This course will help you set goals that are your own and help you use leading-edge strategies to bring them to culmination. https://www.ed2go.com/nscc/online-courses/goal-setting-time-management-training-self-paced/ Online classes begin the second Tuesday of each month.

Taxes for Bookkeepers & Tax Preparers: An Introduction Looking to promote yourself within the CPA firm you work for or to sharpen your tax knowledge? CPA Kevin McAlarney will guide you through the most common individual tax forms along with reporting of taxable and tax free income, self-employed income, rental income, social security income, interest and dividend income, how to report capital gains and losses, itemized deductions, employee business expenses, deducting your vehicle for work, charitable donations, deducting IRA's, Roth IRA basic rules, filing status, claiming children, college tax credits, and how to compute depreciation deductions. Prerequisite: Bookkeeping and Accounting.