ACC-225 introduces QuickBooks as a working accounting tool rather than an abstract concept — setting up a chart of accounts, recording transactions, reconciling bank accounts, and generating the reports small businesses and their accountants depend on daily.
Setting up and maintaining the books
The course covers configuring a QuickBooks company file, building a chart of accounts appropriate to a business, and recording the day-to-day transactions — sales, purchases, payroll — that keep a small business's books current.
Reconciliation and reporting
ACC-225 covers bank reconciliation within QuickBooks and generating the standard reports (profit and loss, balance sheet) small business owners and their accountants use to understand financial position without needing a separate, manually built system.
Key topics in ACC225
- Setting up a QuickBooks company file
- Building a chart of accounts
- Recording sales, purchases, and payroll transactions
- Bank reconciliation in QuickBooks
- Generating profit and loss and balance sheet reports
- Practical small-business accounting workflow
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Worked example: reconciliation catching a real discrepancy
- QuickBooks records: Show a certain cash balance based on entered transactions
- Bank statement: Shows a different balance
- Reconciliation process: Comparing line by line reveals a transaction was entered twice
- Lesson: ACC-225 teaches reconciliation as a genuine error-catching discipline, not just a required software step
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Frequently asked questions
Most small and mid-sized businesses — a large share of where entry-level accounting graduates first work — run their day-to-day bookkeeping on software like QuickBooks rather than custom enterprise systems, and a student who understands accounting theory but can't actually operate the software real employers use is at a genuine practical disadvantage. ACC-225 builds this hands-on competency because employers expect new accounting hires to be productive with common small-business accounting tools quickly, not to learn the software entirely on the job.
Data entry errors — a duplicated transaction, a missed deposit, an incorrect amount — happen even with careful bookkeeping, and reconciling QuickBooks records against the actual bank statement is what surfaces these discrepancies before they compound into a genuinely inaccurate financial picture. ACC-225 teaches reconciliation as its own disciplined process because catching an entry error during monthly reconciliation is far less costly than discovering the books have been wrong for months when a report or tax filing depends on them.