Advance Accounting Skills with Account-Ability
Purpose: To help you set up a complete bookkeeping system, and manage clients from a variety of more sophisticated industries for your new accounting and bookkeeping business. Average time to Complete: 20 Hours
(Advancing Your Account-Ability – Table of Content)
Sessions 1-2 — Dealerships: Complicated Accounting
- How to effectively handle Flooring — the necessary evil of high-cost retailers
- Accounting for creative selling
- Understand additional sources of income that dealers have, that earn you profits, whether you are the dealer or the customer
CASE STUDY: Discover how dealerships account for large transactions by completing the accounting for a motorcycle dealership (City Cycle Company)
Sessions 3-4 — Establish the Accounting Method that Fits the Business Best
- The very first two things you must do when accounting for a company
- Set up an efficient system from ‘scratch’
- How to establish an organized system that will ensure your value as an accountant
- Choosing between the cash and accrual methods
- How to set up a hybrid system that will reap the benefits of both methods
CASE STUDY: Convert Sonja’s Art and Frame from the cash basis to the accrual basis in 3 easy steps
- How to get that iron-clad feeling — without a shadow of a doubt — that your financial’s are right
- Identifying, customizing, and instituting effective auditing techniques
- Learn how to spot and avoid dangerous trends
- How to save the company thousands of dollars in auditing costs
Sessions 5-6 — Year-End Closings and Manufacturing
- 6 final adjustments that should be considered at year-end
- Resetting the financial score
EXERCISE: Prepare the final adjusting entries and close out the general ledger for a company
- How to set up and run an efficient accounting system for the small ‘mom and pop’ manufacturing company
- The simplifying trick to Process Accounting — “SPECs”
- How to price manufactured goods
CASE STUDY: Calculate the manufacturing costs for three months for the Widget Manufacturing Company
Sessions 7-8 — Construction and Non-Profit Accounting
- Job Costing – A simple way to track costs by the project
- 3 construction computations that you must know
- Tracking revenues and costs by month
- One step that you must never forget
CASE STUDY: Perform the accounting for CR Construction
- Accounting for a non-profit organization
CASE STUDY: Perform the accounting for Now Moreland Church