The Basics of Bookkeeping – LERN Professional Development Course

Overview

The Basics of Bookkeeping course will help you understand, and know how to record, every penny that comes into your business and every penny that goes out of your business. This course shows you how to create a chart of accounts that meet your needs. All of the money you spend, and all of the money you earn, have a place to go. How do your record them? What are debits and credits? What do the numbers mean? How do I label accounts? Even if you outsource your bookkeeping needs, you should still have a basic understand of what happens with the money earned and the money spent. No one should be blind to his or her finances!

In this course you will learn where the numbers go, and why! You will learn the bookkeeping terminology as well as what it means to keep track of the numbers. At the end of the cycle, what do the numbers mean? The Basics of Bookkeeping will show you how to keep track of the numbers and why! The Basics of Bookkeeping consists of the following units

Unit 1: The Accounting Equation and Chart of Accounts
Unit 2: Journals and the General Ledger
Unit 3: Recording Transactions
Unit 4: Month End Closing

NOTE: This Professional Development Course is offered online through our training partner, LERN (UGotClass). All LERN Professional Development Courses are non-credit/non-academic and do not offer course credit at the Universities, Sask Polytech, or other academic institutions. If you have any questions, please call our office at 1.800.667.2623. You can learn more by exploring LERN’s  The Basics of Bookeeping.