ACCT 179 Quickbooks for the Professional
This course teaches students to create and edit financial information for both service and merchandising business using the QuickBooks® accounting software package. Students learn to use QuickBooks to establish a company and enter specific data to complete the accounting cycle. An emphasis is placed on tracing accounting principles to the QuickBooks® software. Through an extensive experiential learning approach, students create a fictitious company and produce accounting records such as payroll, bank reconciliations, and financial statements.
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
A graduate should be able to
- Set up a company to operate with QuickBooks®.
- Prepare a chart of accounts.
- Process transactions for service and merchandising businesses.
- Detect and correct errors within the accounting cycle.
- Prepare and print necessary forms such as invoices, vendor reports, and journals.
- Perform the adjustment process.
- Perform the end-of-period closing process.
- Perform the payroll function.
- Prepare a bank reconciliation.
- Prepare financial statements.
- Protect financial information using the password function and data back-up function.
- Prepare and modify budgets for service and merchandising businesses.
A graduate should be able to
- Set up a company to operate with QuickBooks®.
- Prepare a chart of accounts.
- Process transactions for service and merchandising businesses.
- Detect and correct errors within the accounting cycle.
- Prepare and print necessary forms such as invoices, vendor reports, and journals.
- Perform the adjustment process.
- Perform the end-of-period closing process.
- Perform the payroll function.
- Prepare a bank reconciliation.
- Prepare financial statements.
- Protect financial information using the password function and data back-up function.
- Prepare and modify budgets for service and merchandising businesses.