Become a Certified Payroll Specialist

Certified Payroll Specialist Program

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

Perform best practice payroll processing under the direction and supervision of an educated, experienced, and licensed Certified Payroll Specialist (CPS).

Become a licensed Certified Payroll Specialist or CPS.

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

Benefits

Completion of the Certified Payroll Specialist Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Part or full-time payroll position with Consortia Small Business Accountants,
2. Consortia Payroll Business Network member,
3. Part or full-time payroll position with a Consortia client or Network member, or
4. Part or full-time payroll position with a small business.

Objectives

1. Perform payroll accurately and productively.
2. Prepare timely, relevant, and reliable payroll information.
3. Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and annual payroll reports.

Steps‍‍

1. Education
2. Certification
3. Training
4. Experience
5. License
6. Support

Course‍

‍Payroll Fundamentals or course equivalent.

You may opt out of a course. To opt out of a course, you must have completed and passed an equivalent higher education course. To opt out of a course, email your course transcript to info@consortia.accountants.

Education Objective

Develop payroll knowledge and understanding.

Certification‍

‍Payroll Certification

Certification Objective

Communicate and assure employers or clients of your payroll knowledge and understanding.

Training

‍‍Payroll with QuickBooks Online

Training Objective

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

Experience

Payroll Experience (three months)

Experience Objective

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

Certified Payroll Specialist (CPS) License Objective

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

CPS License

Become a licensed Certified Payroll Specialist or CPS.

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

Support

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