He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. We will also be able to see the impact on the financial statements of every transaction we make and be able to check our work after each transaction. We will be able to see how to set up the system to make the data entry as easy as possible. The comprehensive problem format will provide context to the data entry process, so we understand how the data impute fits into the accounting workflow.Ī comprehensive problem also allows us to do more than simple data entry, data entry generally being the easiest part of the accounting process. We will enter every standard type of transaction as we work through the comprehensive problem. The second half of the course will be in the format of a comprehensive problem, working through two months of data impute.

major accounting forms will include invoice, bills, pay bills, purchase orders, deposits, and more. Once we learn the primary sections or accounting cycles we will analyze the forms and transactions within each section, considering the impact each has on the financial statements. The first half of the course will be dedicated to navigating the software, getting a feel for the major components of the software, and the primary accounting cycles such as the customer section or revenue cycle, the vendor section or payments cycle, and the employee section or payroll cycle. Xero often offers a free 30 day trial which is a perfect tool to practice with. We will then go through the purchasing process, the downloading process, and the installation process. This course will start at the basics, assuming you know nothing about the software or accounting.

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