Contractors have many unique bookkeeping issues, so we've designed this course from the ground up to meet the specific accounting needs of the construction industry.

In this six-week course, you'll learn how to use the Premier Contractor Edition of QuickBooks to run your business more efficiently. Lessons are clearly illustrated and include clear step-by-step instructions in plain language so you can get hands-on practice with the features that you're sure to use on a daily basis.

You'll discover how to create custom and professional-looking contract estimates. You'll also learn the different methods available to bill your clients, including how to use the QuickBooks progress invoicing and job-costing features.

You'll find out how to deal with tricky situations like change orders and retainage requirements, and you'll be able to properly set up accounts, items, customers and jobs. All along the way, you'll learn how to avoid many of the big and often costly mistakes contractors commonly make with QuickBooks.

Finally, you'll learn how specific transactions impact all your various accounts, and even some techniques to protect your business from fraud, prepare for tax time, and generate useful and dynamic reports.

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Syllabus:

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

File Management and Setting Preferences

Friday - Lesson 02

Working Backward: Defining Your Setup

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

Creating Items and Subitems

Friday - Lesson 04

Job Costing

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05

Estimating and Invoicing Estimating and Invoicing

Friday - Lesson 06

Handling Change Orders, Retainage, Payments on Account, and Deposits

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

Paying Your Bills, and Maximizing Cash Flow

Friday - Lesson 08

Entering and Tracking Time by Job

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

Creating Payroll Items and Paychecks, and Tracking Workers' Compensation

Friday - Lesson 10

Financial-Statement, Job-Cost, and Time Reports

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

Preparing for Tax Time

Friday - Lesson 12

Protecting Your Business: Using QuickBooks to Safeguard Your Assets

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This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Scott Paxton.

Scott Paxton is a Certified Public Accountant and his background includes experience as a public accountant, a manager in the banking industry, an entrepreneur, and a college business instructor. He is a Certified QuickBooks Professional Advisor, and he has authored a QuickBooks workbook that focuses on implementing and troubleshooting the program.

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Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 98 or better, Internet access, e-mail, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader). and QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition 2006. QuickBooks Pro 2006 can also be used for the class but please be aware that a few features discussed in the course may not be available in this edition (please be sure to install this software on your computer before the course begins). QuickBooks versions 2004, 2005, 2007 and specific industry versions of QuickBooks will also be supported. However, all examples and illustrations in this course will be based on QuickBooks Premier Contractor Edition 2006. This course is not suitable for Macintosh users.

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Student Reviews:

• "I was extremely happy with this course. I read the users guide that came with Quickbooks for Contractors to try and teach myself but found it very difficult to understand. I then tried the Quickbooks for Contractors for Dummies which was better, but still I was frustrated. When I saw this program online, I figured I might as well give it one more try. I am very happy that I did. This 6 week course is written in such a manner that it helped me to understand the concepts so much better. I did not feel frustrated at all and the added assignments helped. Another reason I like this course was because the day before the course was to start, I unexpectently had to go out of town for a 2 week training program and did not have access to Quickbooks. This course gave me the opportunity to catch up when I got back. If I had taken Quickbooks elsewhere, I would not have been able to complete the course and probably would have lost my money. Thank you for thinking about the unexpected or busy times in our lives."
• "I was very nervous to be taking this course, I am a 38 year old homemaker and mother of 6 from ages 15 down to 2, with no college background. I also homeschool one of my children. My husband just recently started an electrical business and I am doing all the bookkeeping. I took this course in order to have an understanding of Quickbooks to do an efficient job. I don't have a lot of extra time, but I found this course helped me to learn the program without overloading me with a lot of unnecessary work. I feel I have a much better understanding of the program and I enjoyed the course. Thank you."
• "Really enjoyed the course. I looked forward to it every week and sharing with my employer the tips I learned. Thanks."
• "Thanks for the help. The course was understandable even for us non-accountants."
• "This course was fantastic. I took this course because I had recently started a new job and the office manager was switching over to Quickbooks to incorporate the job-costing feature into his everyday accounting. I feel that I now have an extremely good grasp on what we need to include on our future jobs to get the most out of the job-costing feature. The course was well written and the lesson were easy to understand and follow. I would recommend this course to anyone who was going to be using Quickbooks for Contractors."

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