Bookkeeper Development Program

Learn best practice bookkeeping from a leading national accounting company providing bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and tax services to small businesses.

Perform best practice bookkeeping under the direction and supervision of an educated, experienced, and licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper (CPB).

Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper or CPB.

Consortia is a registered Postsecondary Proprietary School providing post-secondary education for educational, vocational, or professional objectives.

Benefits

Completion of the Bookkeeper Development Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with Consortia Small Business Accountants,
2. Consortia Bookkeeping Business Network member,
3. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with a Consortia client or Network member, or
4. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with a small business.

Prerequisites

The following is required before starting the Program.

1. Complete or substitute the Accounting Fundamentals course.
2. Take and pass the Bookkeeping Certification.
3. Complete or substitute the QuickBooks Online Fundamentals course.
4. Take and pass the ‍QuickBooks Online Certification.

To substitute a course, you must have completed and passed an equivalent higher education course. To substitute a course, email your course transcript to info@consortia.accountants.

Objectives

1. Perform bookkeeping accurately and productively.
2. Prepare timely, relevant, and reliable financial information.
3. Increase operating cash flow.
4. Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and annual business performance reports.

Steps‍‍

1. Education
2. Certification
3. Training
4. Experience
5. License
6. Support

Education Objective

Develop bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll knowledge and understanding.

Courses

1. Accounting Fundamentals or course equivalent‍
2. ‍QuickBooks Online Fundamentals or course equivalent
3. ‍Payroll Fundamentals or course equivalent (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program¹)

Certification Objective

Communicate and assure employers or clients of your bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll knowledge and understanding.

Certifications‍

1. Bookkeeping Certification
2. QuickBooks Online Certification
3. Payroll Certification (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program¹)

Training Objective

Learn best practice bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll processes, procedures, and steps.

Training

1. ‍‍Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online
2. ‍Payroll with QuickBooks Online Payroll

Experience Objective

Apply best practice bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll processes, procedures, and steps.

Experience

Bookkeeping Experience (three months)
Payroll Experience (three months²)

Certified Public Bookkeeper (CPB) License Objective

Place CPB behind your name and communicate your bookkeeping knowledge, skill, experience, and ethics to employers or clients.

CPB License

Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper or CPB.

This program completes the CPB license education, certification (examination), and experience requirements.

Support

You are assigned support personnel to assist you with any course, certification, training, experience, or licensing questions.

Notes

1. If you complete the Payroll Fundamentals course and take and pass the Payroll Certification exam during the Bookkeeping Experience segment, you can go directly from the Bookkeeping Experience segment to the Payroll Experience segment without interruption.
2. You continue to perform bookkeeping and begin to perform payroll processing during the Payroll Experience segment of the program.