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Bookkeeping Certificate (Online at your own pace)


Adult Enrichment / Business & Consumer -
Online Certificates and Courses 2025

Are you ready to take control of your business finances? Whether you're an entrepreneur or looking to upskill, our Bookkeeping Certificate program will equip you with the knowledge needed to measure and manage your financial health. Don't be clueless when it comes to your money - even if you outsource your bookkeeping, understanding the process is crucial. Join us and learn the ins and outs of cash basis accounting for a thriving business.

Bookkeeping Certificate courses must be taken in the following order. (Scroll down for course details):

  1. Understanding Debits and Credits
  2. General Ledger and Month End Procedures 
  3. Closing Procedures and Financial Statements

Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ


Class Details:
Understanding Debits & Credits
Unit 1: The accounting equation and categories

  • The Accounting Equation
  • The Five Accounting Categories
  • The Chart of Accounts
  • Account Placement
  • Activity ~ Categorizing Accounts
  • Cash Basis Accounting vs. Accrual Basis Accounting
Unit 2: Debits and credits

  • T-Accounts
  • Debits and Credits
  • Double Entry Bookkeeping
  • Analyze Financial Activities (Transactions)
Unit 3: Assets, liabilities, and owner's equity

  • Recording Transactions for Assets
  • Recording Transactions for Liabilities
  • Recording Transactions for Owner’s Equity

Unit 4: Revenue and expenses

  • Recording Transactions for Revenue
  • Recording Transactions for Expenses
  • Activity ~ Recording Transactions

General Ledger & Month End Procedures
Unit 1: The General Ledger
  • What is the General Ledger

  • Why must the general ledger balance
  • Posting to the general ledger
  • Activity ~ Posting to The General Ledger

Unit 2: The unadjusted trial balance
  • What is the unadjusted trial balance
  • Verify debit and credit balances
  • Finding errors
  • Activity ~ Find The Errors

Unit 3: Correcting entries and adjusting entries
  • Determine correcting entries

  • Adjusting entries and how to prepare them
  • Posting correcting entries and adjusting entries to the general ledger
  • Activity ~ Preparing Entries and Posting to General Ledger

Unit 4: The adjusted trial balance
  • Verify the accuracy of the adjusted trial balance

  • Prepare monthly bank reconciliations
  • Activity ~ Prepare a Bank Reconciliation

Closing Procedures & Financial Statements
Unit 1: Prepare a worksheet
  • What is a worksheet

  • Columns included in the worksheet
  • Completing each column

Unit 2: The income statement
  • Review the worksheet columns for the Income Statement
  • Prepare the income statement
  • Determine a profit or loss

Unit 3: The balance sheet
    Review the worksheet columns for the Balance Sheet
    Prepare the balance sheet
Unit 4: Closing entries and statement of changes in owner's equity
    Prepare the balance sheet
    Prepare a statement of changes in owner’s equity
    Applying year-end steps monthly or quarterly

Instructor

Sharon deFonteny


Sharon deFonteny has a degree in Business Education with a concentration in Accounting and spent many years in Corporate America working in Accounting and Finance. For the past 5 years, she has created and taught online Business courses for Bucks County Community College. Her experience in business, as well as experience in teaching, has allowed her to help people understand the Accounting and Finance process.

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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 495 00
Registration begins  
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