Update Your Skills

Take your accounting and bookkeeping skills into the 21st century!  If it’s been a while since you learned anything new in the world of accounting, now is the perfect time to enhance your existing skill set.

Maybe you worked as a bookkeeper years ago before you had kids and now it’s time for you to get back into the workforce.  Or maybe you were recently laid off and are looking for a new job and want to add some new skills to your repertoire.

Even though the economy is not doing so well right now, accounting and bookkeeping professionals are still in demand.  Businesses still need their books to be done even if they aren’t making as much money as they used to.  And many businesses owners are looking to analyze their bottom lines much more closely than in the past, so they want to make sure that the books are correct.

If you take a quick look through the want ads in your local paper chances are pretty good that you’ll see some openings for bookkeepers and accountants.  Many of these ads will list what the job responsibilities are and will include things like “general ledger” or “full charge bookkeeper” and “quickbooks experience necessary”.  Many of the job listings in my paper list QuickBooks as one of the requirements.  The lessons that I teach here will help you qualify for one of these jobs.

I am currently teaching a QuickBooks training class at night and 3 out of the 4 people are all looking for bookkeeping jobs.  One person is re-entering the workforce after having kids and being out of the game for 6 or 7 years, one person was recently laid off and had been using another very specialized bookkeeping system and the third person just moved to the U.S. and isn’t familiar with QuickBooks but knows other European-based software packages.

So no matter what your reason for wanting to learn, I welcome you and look forward to interacting with you here.  Good luck in your journey and please let me know if you have any questions, comments or special requests for lessons.

This post was written by Michael Debyah.