Bookkeeping Course Curriculum

In this course, you'll develop the necessary skills to ensure your success in the program. You'll learn how you can improve your study skills so you're able to use a number of tools that will help you to be successful. You'll then learn the basics of bookkeeping and the roles of a bookkeeper.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Identify skills needed to be a confident and independent online learner
• Analyze the purpose and importance of balance sheet, bookkeeping, and their components in accounting

In this course, you'll begin to learn the basics of bookkeeping. You'll learn what books are kept to track how an individual or business earns and spends money. You'll also learn about the three major components of bookkeeping: assets, liabilities, and owner's equity.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Identify the various functions of journal and ledger entries in accounting
• Analyze the reporting procedures of various transactions in the general ledger

In this course, you'll start by learning how to set up revenue, expenses, and trial balances on standard bookkeeping forms. Then, you'll learn how to create various financial reports, including financial statements, ending balance sheets, and closing entries.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Analyze the importance of revenue, expenses, and trial balance in the accounting equation
• Identify the elements and strategies associated with financial reports

In this course, you'll learn about accounting for cash and payroll accounting, accrual accounting and inventory, and wholesale accounting.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Analyze the various accounting transactions of cash, banks, and employee payroll
• Show the calculations of accrual accounting, cash sales, and the recording of merchandise inventory
• Categorize the components of wholesale accounting and the methods used in evaluating them

This course begins with a look at company assets, and then covers end-of-month and end-of-year accounting procedures. Then, you'll learn how to operate and utilize Windows programs, which you'll use throughout your Bookkeeping career as you keep electronic forms and records.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Distinguish between the various accounting activities and procedures used in maintaining ledgers and worksheets

Microsoft® Office 2019 allows people to create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases. This course will cover how to use MS Excel®. You’ll then study how to use MS Excel® to organize and format data, including charts, formulas, and more complex tables. Finally, you’ll complete a computer applications graded project, which will test the skills acquired in Excel®.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Identify how to create various Microsoft® Excel® documents
• Produce a thorough Microsoft® Excel® 2019 spreadsheet

This course is designed to help you develop an understanding of computerized accounting in conjunction with the QuickBooks software. Throughout this course, you'll work with QuickBooks, inputting data and transactions, viewing financial reports and statements, and more.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Explain the basic functions of QBO
• Describe how to enter and track banking and business transactions
• Summarize how to perform accounting for payroll and inventory in QBO
• Prepare financial reports using QBO reporting processes

This course will apply everything you've learned in your Bookkeeping program. The graded project in this course will require you to call upon all of the skills you've learned to this point to complete a financial record. Be sure to revisit previous courses as needed to make sure you're prepared for this project.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Complete bookkeeping activities based on the knowledge learned throughout your program