Universal Accounting® invites you to explore the opportunities that exist in the accounting profession. Whether you are:
- Training an employee
- Providing group training for employees and/or a department
- Wanting to start or expand your career in accounting, bookkeeping and tax,
- Trying to improve your employment situation with promotions and pay increases,
- Moving toward greater independence by starting a bookkeeping service and building your own part-time or full-time accounting business
Universal is here to help you.
What other professions can claim to be as stable or consistent as accounting and bookkeeping? Is the definition of a debit or credit going to change today after being used for more than 500 years?
Since the dawn of time accounting was used in the simplest of forms, and has been referred to as the second oldest profession. From the late 1400’s accounting has been based on the principles of debits, credits and double-entry accounting. Although originally written in Latin, the books of the father of accounting, Fra Luca Pacioli, could be used today to teach bookkeeping.
Fra Luca Pacioli
Summa De Arithmetica
1494
One hundred percent of businesses need accurate accounting, and to ensure that it is done the government steps in and requires that it be completed for taxes. An example of this trend is stated in the United States Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook:
Learn how you can benefit from this great profession as an accountant either working with an employer or for clients. Certifying your skills as a Professional Bookkeeper™, Professional Tax Preparer™ and QuickBooks Specialist you are able to excel and stand out from others within the accounting profession.