SBDC will host two QuickBooks courses for small business owners, managers

The Kilgore College Small Business Development Center will host two hands-on QuickBooks courses for small business owners and managers—levels I and II.

Level I is set for Monday through Thursday, May 21-24, and Level II will be held Monday through Thursday, June 25-28.

Both courses will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at KC—Longview’s Hendrix building, Room 105, 300 S. High Street in Longview.

Attendees will learn QuickBooks 2011 by Intuit as an example of computerized bookkeeping systems.

The instructor or both courses will be Jason Cooner, certified public accountant with Cooner and Cooner, P.C.

Basic accounting principles and familiarity with computers and Windows are necessary for both courses.

Seating is limited to 30 students per course. Fee is $159 for each course which includes all course material.

For registration, call the SBDC at 903-757-5857 or 1-800-338-7232.

For more information visit: www.kilgoresbdc.com [1].

QuickBooks Level I topics include:

Common business accounting terms
Introduction to QuickBooks
Creating a new company file
Working with lists
Establishing your QuickBooks chart of accounts
Setting up items
Tracking customers and sales
Tracking vendors and expenses
Reconciling
1099 Forms
Tracking sales taxes
Budgets and forecasts
Processing credit card payments
Tracking sales orders and backorders

QuickBooks Level II topics include:

Advanced reporting
Understanding QuickBooks reports
Importing and exporting reports
Using special fields to improve reporting
Using Microsoft Excel to modify graph data
Setting up and using payroll
Time tracking & estimating
Job costing
Purchasing and managing inventory
Building inventory assemblies
Customizing forms