Become a Certified Payroll Specialist

Certified Payroll Specialist (CPS) Program

Become one of America's most qualified payroll processors. Become a licensed Certified Payroll Specialist and place CPS behind your name.

Learn and apply best practice payroll processing from a leading national accounting company.

Consortia Small Business Accountants provide bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and tax services for small businesses.

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

Benefits

The Certified Payroll Specialist Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Bookkeeping career with Consortia Small Business Accountants,
2. Payroll position with a payroll or accounting business,
3. Payroll position with a small business, or
4. Payroll clerk position with a corporation.

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.

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.

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.

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.