Learn best practice bookkeeping from a leading national accounting company providing bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and tax services to small businesses.

Perform best practice bookkeeping under the direction and supervision of an educated, experienced, and licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper (CPB).

Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper or CPB.

Consortia is a registered Postsecondary Proprietary School providing post-secondary education for educational, vocational, or professional objectives.

Completion of the Certified Public Bookkeeper Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with Consortia Small Business Accountants,

2. Consortia Bookkeeping Business Network member,

3. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with a Consortia client or Network member, or

4. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with a small business.

1. Perform bookkeeping accurately and productively.

2. Prepare timely, relevant, and reliable financial information.

3. Increase operating cash flow.

4. Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and annual business performance reports.

1. Education

2. Certification

3. Training

4. Experience

5. License

6. Support

1. Accounting Fundamentals or course equivalent

2. QuickBooks Online Fundamentals or course equivalent

3. Payroll Fundamentals or course equivalent (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program¹)

Develop bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll knowledge and understanding.

1. Bookkeeping Certification

2. QuickBooks Online Certification

3. Payroll Certification (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program1)

Communicate and assure employers or clients of your bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll knowledge and understanding.

1. Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online

2. Payroll with QuickBooks Online Payroll

Learn best practice bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll processes, procedures, and steps.

1. Bookkeeping Experience (six months)

2. Payroll Experience (three months²)

Apply best practice bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Online Payroll processes, procedures, and steps.

Place CPB behind your name and communicate your bookkeeping knowledge, skill, experience, and ethics to employers or clients.

Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper or CPB.

This program completes the CPB license education, certification (examination), and experience requirements.

You are assigned support personnel to assist you with any course, certification, training, experience, or licensing questions.

1. If you complete the Payroll Fundamentals course and take and pass the Payroll Certification exam during the Bookkeeping Experience segment, you can go directly from the Bookkeeping Experience segment to the Payroll Experience segment without interruption.

2. You continue to perform bookkeeping and begin to perform payroll processing during the Payroll Experience segment of the program.