Intuit QuickBooks Online Plus

Hours: 100 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $999.00

Course Overview:

In this course, you will learn how to use QuickBooks Online plus by completing two monthly accounting cycles. In the first lessons, accounting for selling service items will be covered. In later lessons, both service items and inventory items that are sold will be covered. Preparing payroll and creating a new company will also be included. Prior to taking this course, you should be familiar with the accounting cycle and how it is related to a business. While no prior knowledge of QuickBooks Online is required, it will be beneficial to have an understanding of accounting principles.

The majority of this course will be conducted through drill exercises and related practice activities and quizzes based on the knowledge you have gained through completing each chapter. Be prepared for a thorough, and extensive hands-on experience throughout the journey of completing this QuickBooks course. While the reading requirements are light, each chapter contains a number of drills that you must complete, as well as the practice activities assigned and lesson quiz.

Students are eligible for a free 365 day copy of Intuit QuickBooks Online Plus from the
Intuit Education Program in order to follow along with the course content.

Students will:

• Navigate QuickBooks Online Plus program
• Create and use a company
• Analyze and record transactions for service and inventory businesses
• Conduct transactions for both customer and vendor requests
• Complete transactions and account for two full monthly business cycles
• Prepare Payroll using QuickBooks Online Payroll
• Create and print business forms and reports

This course prepares students to take the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User Online certification exam.

About This Course:

We are committed to offering world class interactive online courses that provide training and learning support for the student in a number of ways during their experience. This course structure has been developed to provide activities to guide students throughout the entire process of learning. Learning activities include hands-on assignments that allow students to use what they are learning to allow better transferable skills within their work environments.

When a student learns, they are not alone.   Each student will be supported by our student services department – which ranges from course mentors, registrar, and technical support assistance.   Every month students have a progress report run on them every month by our student services department to ensure they are making satisfactory progress.   If a student falls behind, we reach out to them personally by phone call every month to see if there is anything we can do to continue to assist them with moving forward in their course.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Introduction to QuickBooks Online Plus

Lesson 1 will serve as an introductory lesson to QuickBooks. You will learn about the different versions of QuickBooks, the basics of navigation within the Online version, and how to prepare a report. More information on the desktop and mobile versions of QuickBooks will be covered in lesson 10. For now, we focus on learning the features of the online version. As you go through all 10 lessons you may need additional files to complete the drills within the text. These files have been provided on the QuickBooks Online Plus website and your login information has been provided on the Student Access Code Card that accompanies your text. Make sure you access these files before going forward with this course.

Lesson 2: Create a Company

Within Lesson 2 you will partake in a serious of step-by-step guides and drills that will demonstrate how to set up a fictitious company.  This will include inputting company information, accounts, items, customers, and vendors and other details that must be provided before transactions may be recorded in QuickBooks.  Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 3: Sales and Receivables: Service Items

This lesson will focus on recording sales - for both cash and on account - customer payments, bank deposits and other transactions for receivables and sales.  In addition to recording transactions, you will also prepare several reports.  Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 4: Payables and Purchases

Lesson 4 focuses on recording purchases and payments, writing checks and using Petty Cash.  In addition to recording transactions, you will also prepare several reports. Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 5: General Accounting and End-of-Period Procedures

In lesson 5 you will learn and practice end-of-period procedures including; recording journal entries for depreciations and adjusting entries required for accrual-basis accounts, recording equity transactions, reconciling bank statements, preparing and printing appropriate reports and closing the end-of-period. Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 6: Sales and Receivables: Product and Service Items

Lesson 6 will continue to build on the work produced in earlier lessons.  This lesson will focus on entering the sales tax for purchases, preparing invoices and sales receipts, recording sales discounts, adding logos, recording transactions for various locations and classes and adding new customers, venders, accounts, products, services and terms to your accounts.  Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 7: Payables, Purchases and Inventory

In lesson 7 you will continue using the Test Drive Company for practice and your fictional company to record purchase orders, purchases and payments, make payments by writing checks, using the company credit card and using Petty Cash.  In addition to recording transactions, you will also prepare several corresponding reports.  Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 8: General Accounting, End-of-Period Procedures, and Budgets

In lesson 8 you will focus on recording end-of-period transactions, adjustments and reconciliations, assign a closing date and preparing the corresponding reports. Pay careful attention to quantities, amounts and dates as you work through this lesson.  A careless error can require a tremendous amount of effort to correct. Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 9: Payroll

Lesson 9 will focus on procedures for activating payroll, processing payroll, paying payroll liabilities, and preparing payroll reports.  You will only use the Test Drive Company for the drills in this lesson as it would not be appropriate to enroll in a payroll program, process payroll, and pay tax liabilities for your fictitious company.  Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

Lesson 10: Quickbooks Desktop, Mobile and Additional Features

The QuickBooks Online Program contains many areas that were not explored during the training chapters of the text.  The appendices will present information regarding some of these areas including the desktop and mobile versions and additional features to QuickBooks not covered in this text such as Recurring Transactions, Timesheets, Bad Debts and Attachments. Any additional files required for drills in this lesson are available via the online student access of your text. 

All necessary course materials are included.

Certification(s):

This course prepares students to take the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User Online certification exam.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.