Bookkeeping Courses Reviewed
July 3rd, 2009
If you are starting a business, your uninvited biggest business partner will be the IRS or the Canada Revenue Agency. They require you to have a organized set of books and records that reflect the business income and expenses you are incurring in your operations.
Therefore, you must do some bookkeeping. But, don’t feel intimidated if you don’t know how! You have 2 or 3 alternatives.
1. Hire a bookkeeping service to do the work for you.
2. Hire a bookkeeper as an employee to do the entries.
3. Do the work yourself.
This article actually covers all three, in that, no matter which one you choose YOU MUST KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT BOOKKEEPING. This is not an article about bookkeeping software, this is not an article about using that software. This is an article about YOU taking an introductory course on HOW BOOKKEEPING WORKS. This way, no matter which method mentioned above you need for your business, you can speak with some authority and you won’t be living in a fog when it comes to the numbers.
It is impossible to run a small business without this knowledge.
And the fastest easiest way to learn it is to take an online bookkeeping course.
Because there are so many too choose from, I thought I would take away the hassle for you to decide by reviewing, in my opinion, the top five. At the end I will state my preference, which will become obvious as you read the reviews. That is just my way of trying to hook you in to read to the end. LOL
There are three types of online courses in bookkeeping to choose from:
* Courses prepared and delivered by Universities, Colleges and Training Companies
Most of these courses are directed at students that are pursuing an accounting designation, and as such, the class work load is geared towards the basic technical knowledge base. The students also tend to be a li Read the rest of this entry »
