Accounting and bookkeeping training is available in Victoria BC, and provides people with versatile skill-sets which are in high demand. People who are trained in these fields can work for businesses across all industries. All businesses need to keep track of their finances, and just about any sizable business needs to hire an accountant or bookkeeper. Sometimes one person will handle both of these tasks, and in other cases there will be people handling each one separately.
Accounting and bookkeeping are the primary practices that concern the tracking and reporting of a business’s finances. These are ideal fields to work in for people who enjoy paying attention to detail, and working with numbers.
Accounting focuses on the processing, measurement and communication regarding all financial aspects of a business. Accounting practices can include financial and management accounting, working with different information systems, auditing and tax accounting.
Bookkeeping involves the recording of financial transactions, and the preparation of summarized reports. In this field, the individual will mainly be focused on working with single and double entry systems on paper, or with a computerized system. Bookkeepers will find themselves working with things like daybooks, petty cash, ledgers and journals.
We offer courses in Basic Bookkeeping – Foundations, Basic Accounting – Foundation, Sage 50, QuickBooks, and Custom courses. Courses can be delivered in 3-hour blocks, flexible scheduling.
Who should attend: This course is intended for anyone without any prior knowledge or experience in Bookkeeping.
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills and comfortable working with Windows Explorer.
Duration: 24 Hours
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Course Content
Manual Bookkeeping:
Balance Sheet:
Ledger:
Canadian Taxes:
Additional Journals and Entry Information:
Who should attend: This course is intended for anyone without any prior knowledge or experience in Accounting.
Prerequisites: Basic computer skills and comfortable working with Windows Explorer.
Duration: 24 Hours
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Course Content
Manual Accounting:
Trial Balance:
Inventory:
Transactions:
Payroll:
Sage 50 is software used for managing a business’s accounting. It can integrate tasks to offer a simplified solution to a business’s management, financial and communication tracking needs. Someone who is proficient with Sage 50 software, is potentially more employable by the many businesses which have incorporated this system of accounting.
It is designed to be used in small to medium sized businesses, handling anywhere from simple individual tasks to complex layers of interconnected tasks. The range of abilities that Sage has helps with the management of accounts, sales, payroll and human resources.
This software can take a lot of the headaches out of traditional accounting, with its paperless ‘work from anywhere’ cloud based system. Sage 50 makes it easy to manage expenses and customer contacts, to creating quotes, sales orders and invoices. It enables us to efficiently build reports, manage inventory, and integrate banking directly into the software. Sage 50 also backs up our data, and makes it easy for us to keep up with the current rules and regulations of accounting.
Who should attend: This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic bookkeeping/accounting.
Prerequisites: Basic Bookkeeping – Foundations or Basic Accounting – Foundations or equivalent.
Duration: 24 Hours
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Course Content
Company Set-up:
Products, Services and Sales Taxes:
Customers and Sales:
Suppliers and Expenses:
Handling Money:
Inventory & Purchase Orders:
Period-Ending Activities:
Tracking Business Activities:
QuickBooks is a popular accounting software for small to medium sized businesses. It comes either as a localized computer application, or a ‘work from anywhere’ cloud based service. It has many features bundled into it to help make business accounting easier, quicker and more organized. Some features include: direct banking, email functionality, and multiple users to name a few. It also provides many tools for generating and customizing reports, and managing estimates.
QuickBooks has the ability to integrate with online banking, which offers a wide range of convenient functionality. You can pay vendors, create cheques from anywhere – print ready, and set up recurring payments. Receiving business payments is made easy with the option to accept credit card payments directly in electronic invoices. Also, this software enables us to pay employees with free direct deposit. Managing finances is also made easy with QuickBooks. It allows you to track bill status, record payments and import transactions from several different types of financial institutions. Track and automatically add billable hours to invoices, and import them from many different sources including Google Calendar.
Stay on top of all your tax information with automatic calculation of your financial transactions as you go along.
Who should attend: This course is intended for participants who are familiar with basic bookkeeping/accounting.
Prerequisites: Basic Bookkeeping – Foundations or Basic Accounting – Foundations or equivalent.
Duration: 12 Hours
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
Course Content
Company Set-up:
Products, Services and Sales Taxes:
Customers and Sales:
Suppliers and Expenses:
Handling Money:
Inventory & Purchase Orders:
Period-Ending Activities:
Tracking Business Activities:
The Vancouver Island Works Project acknowledges that our members, live, play and do business on the Traditional Territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples. It recognizes the First Nations governments across this region — Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees) and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) Nations in the core area, the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations {W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱,(Tsawout) W̱SIKEM (Tseycum)} out on the Saanich Peninsula and Gulf Islands, to the west Sc’ianew (Beecher Bay), T’Sou-ke, and Pacheedaht, and MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) and Pune’laxutth’ (Penelekut) Nations.
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