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| Bookkeeping | There are certain skills you need to begin a career as a Bookkeeper. The Penn Foster Course may help you learn them quickly and conveniently. With this course students get hands-on training in: preparing a balance sheet and income statement; Revenue, expenses, and trial balance; assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity; the basics of the general journal, ledger, and the T account; payroll accounting, accounting systems, and wholesale accounting.
This at-home learning program includes seven Instruction Sets designed to take students step-by-step through the techniques and skills they will employ in their new career in Bookkeeping.
Set 1 – discovers assets, liabilities, owner’s equity, and the accounting equation; preparing a balance sheet.
Set 2 – studies account balances for asset accounts, liability accounts, and owner’s equity accounts; footing and balancing the ledger; analyzing a transaction; posting to the general ledger.
Set 3 – examines Financial Reports: worksheets; how to prepare an income statement and a balance sheet; closing steps for expense and revenue summary accounts; balancing and ruling the books at the end of the year; temporary ledger accounts; permanent ledger accounts; the general ledger; the accounting cycle.
Set 4 – familiarize students with accounting systems: accrual accounting; the importance of inventory accounting; posting to the general ledger and other business records.
Set 5 – browse through Assets and End-of-the-Month Activities: accounting procedures for long-term tangible and intangible assets; amortization and depreciation; the end-of-the-month accounting procedures.
Set 6 – teach student how to create and modify a worksheet and work with charts in Excel.
Set 7 – this set teaches students how to maintain the accounting records and prepare financial statements for this sole proprietorship.
Total tuition fees (including registration, technology and shipping fees) – $979
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