Business Bookkeeping

This certificate is designed for people pursuing a job as a bookkeeper or for small business owners interested in improving their bookkeeping skills.

QuickBooks and payroll have you lost? Afraid of making a costly mistake? Introducing our new Business Bookkeeping Certificate course.

Build your understanding and skills with vital bookkeeping functions like payroll, QuickBooks, and tax knowledge so you can balance your books like a pro.

Certificate Classes include:

QuickBooks Pro Online
Accounting Basics
Understanding Your Business Taxes
Payroll Accounting
Business Bookkeeping Class Details
Understanding Your Business Taxes
Income tax, sales tax, payroll tax, and the list goes on for taxes your business pays. Discussion will center on the various business taxes, forms and ways to file and pay the taxes, and things you can do in your record keeping system to better understand and lessen your tax burden. Participants will receieve all materials and are encouraged to bring specific questions.

Accounting Basic Concepts
Designed for the non-accountant bookkeeper, office manager or owner of a business. Learn basic accounting terms including revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities. Learn to build and read the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Become familiar with accounting debits and credits as you learn how to record transactions in this hands-on course.

QuickBooks Online Software Comprehensive
We make it easy to get comfortable with QuickBooks. This course will address setting up your chart accounts, customer and vendor files, recurring transactions, and products/services you sell. Learn how to manage money coming in including sales, invoicing, and deposits, and money going out by paying bills, booking credit card expenditures, and tracking expenses. You'll learn how to reconcile accounts, track loans and loan payments, book fiexed assets, and use reports to understand your business, track sales trends and profitability, and prepare for tax time. You'll leave knowing that you're doing a good job and can handle whatever QuickBooks sends your way.

Payroll Accounting
It's a fact of business-if a company has employees, it has to account for payroll, fringe benefits, and payroll taxes. This comprehensive course will guide you through processing a new employee, calculating payroll and payroll taxes, payroll tax reporting, periodic and year end payroll reporting to the government. 

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Contact Us

Center for Business (CBIZ)
610 North Fourth Street
River Park Place, Suite 220
Burlington, Iowa 52601
Phone: (319) 208-5375
Email: cbiz@scciowa.edu