Bookkeeping Using QuickBooks

This two day computer based course will provide you with the skills and procedures to enter and maintain your accounting data as well as ensure a streamlined process to transfer information to your Accountant’s system.

Course Outline

Accounting Section

  • Creating a new business data file & entering opening balances
  • Correctly setting up and editing the chart of accounts
  • The GST, accounting concepts and terminology
  • Setting up customers and suppliers
  • Inventory and stock control
  • Understanding the basic accounting concepts
  • Reconcile the bank account and credit card statements, import and export EFT & ABA files
  • Trial balance
  • Depreciation
  • Customising accounting documents
  • Reporting and graphs
  • Understanding the GST & BAS link process & lodging BAS
  • Verification and validation of data for corruption and data entry errors
  • Using job codes and department tracking

In addition, this course demonstrates the payroll setup and day to day maintenance of employees and associated activities. Whether your company has one employee or 100 employees, this course will help you simplify your payroll system and is the perfect solution for businesses wanting to move to an electronic employee maintenance system.

Payroll Section

  • Setup of payroll categories
  • Maintenance of employee entitlements, allowances and superannuation contributions
  • Management of employer payroll expenses
  • Paying of employees (casual, part time and full time)
  • Processing of adjustments
  • Printing of payslips
  • Creation of EFT files to pay employees for electronic direct deposit
  • Superannuation including salary sacrifice & co contributions
  • Using reports for PAYG withholding
  • Paying of tax liability to the ATO & the lodgement of BAS
  • Validating of end-of-year payroll information and printing payment summaries (group certificates)

» Prerequisites
None

» Assessment
On completion of the course, attendees will be provided with a Certificate of Participation.

» Dates, Duration & Cost
For dates click here.
2 days
$699 per person (includes GST, manual, sample data files, unlimited email support, hot lunch and continuous refreshments)


» Bring your own laptop or hire one of ours
If you have a laptop with either Quickbooks installed on it, please bring it along to the course. If you don’t have either of these programs, please arrive 30 minutes early to have the trial software installed on your laptop. There will also be a limited number of laptops available for hire, so book quickly!  Hire of laptop is $50 for the 2 days (inc GST).

To register please click here or for more information contact us.