Financial

The demand for CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals is expected to grow by 32% in the next decade.* A 273-hour certificate program has been established by Zahn Associates to meet the need of professionals who are able to plan, assess and evaluate a client’s financial future through the development of a comprehensive financial plan.

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Earn Bookkeeper certification online. Bookkeeping forms the backbone of every organization's need to carefully account for its financial activities. It accounts for sales, purchases, and payments that flow through an entity. Bookkeepers are crucial to every organization and certified bookkeepers are the elite of their profession. This 100% online course will prepare you for certification by the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB).

Job Outlook for Bookkeepers

According to PayScale.com, bookkeepers earn on average $17.37 per hour. Top bookkeepers’ earnings exceed $56,900.

CareerBuilder.com cites bookkeeping skills as highly transferable to financial supervisory, analysis, or managerial roles. The site calls bookkeeper an "ideal choice" for those who are motivated to keep organizations on track with regard to their finances.

Technology is highly relevant to the bookkeeper's role. Mastery of bookkeeping software applications is the key to matching bookkeeping skills with expanding requirements for analysis, visual data presentation, and reporting that provides value-added to the traditional bookkeeper's duties.

Course Objectives

• Prepare to take and pass the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB) certification exam
• Understand eligibility requirements, code of ethics, and maintenance requirements for bookkeeper certification
• Apply the concepts of accrual accounting to transactions that span fiscal periods and trace the effect of accrual and deferral transactions
• Record book and tax depreciation, using various methods of calculating depreciation
• Perform basic payroll duties, including paying wages, handling payroll deposits, and reporting taxes
• Know how to value inventory, record costs, make entries and report inventory on financial statements
• Use basic internal controls to prevent theft, embezzlement, or check and credit card fraud by employees, customers, or vendors

Prerequisites

This course is designed for experienced bookkeepers with at least two years of work experience in bookkeeping or accounting.

Curriculum

• BECOMING A CERTIFIED BOOKKEEPER
  Eligibility requirements, code of ethics, and certification maintenance
• ACCRUALS, DEFERRALS, AND THE ADJUSTED TRIAL BALANCE
  Why accruals, deferrals, and other adjustments are made; recognizing revenues collected in advance and expenses after a prepayment
• CORRECTION OF ACCOUNTING ERRORS AND THE BANK RECONCILIATION
  When and where accounting errors occur and how they are discovered; finding and correcting errors on the unadjusted trial balance
• PAYROLL
  How to pay different types of employees; federal and state wage-hour law
• DEPRECIATION
  The difference between book and tax depreciation; depreciation under GAAP
• INVENTORY
  General concepts of accounting for inventory; the perpetual, periodic, FIFO, and LIFO methods
• INTERNAL CONTROLS AND FRAUD DEPRECIATION
  How to prevent or spot theft of inventory and other non-cash assets by employees; preventing employee theft, embezzlement, or fraud by hiring the right personnel

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