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As a Reckon Training Centre, we encourage you to get the most from your software investment.  Currently we offer courses on:

• QuickBooks Certificate
• QuickBooks Advanced Certificate
• Paying Your Employees Using QuickBooks
• Company Reporting Using QuickBooks
• PayrollPremier Certificate
• QuickBooks Certificate for Bookkeepers
• QuickBooks Certificate for Accountant's

The Reckon courses show you how to work efficiently and accurately within your financial software. Our expert classroom style training shows you how to get things right first time, every time, and to build long standing practices for precise record-keeping.

We show you hints and tips to maximise your accounting processes and to make your data entry a little more fun.

Calculation has Reckon Training Centres in the CBD and Bentleigh East.  We also run a mobile Reckon Training Centre which visits Western Victoria, Bendigo, Wangaratta, Sale, ACT and Tasmania, and the list is continuously growing each year.  For further details on Regional Training, please contact us.

Key Benefits

• Highest quality of training
• Small class sizes - max 10
• Hands on approach
• Every Reckon training course is conducted by a Reckon Accredited Consultant – an expert in the Reckon software range and training expert, qualified with Cert IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

Course Overview

QuickBooks Certificate gives you a basic overview of accounting principles within QuickBooks.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Setting up a new company for new businesses or those wishing to start a new data file.
• Customising the chart of accounts to help you improve reporting on your business.
• Establishing departmental cost centres to help you track individual aspects of your business.
• Writing cheques in QuickBooks to help you trace expenses.
• Creating customer and supplier databases to help you track your debtors and creditors.
• Creating Bank Reconciliation to ensure all transactions made in your business bank account are streamlined with QuickBooks.
• Entering and paying bills to help you track your debtors.
• Tracking credit card transactions to help you monitor your expenses.
• Reporting features in QuickBooks to help you better manage your business.
• Creating items and invoices to help you track your businesses income.
• Receiving and making payments.
• Backing Up your data file.
• Setting up ABA Files to help make paying bills easier.

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QuickBooks Advanced Certificate builds on your knowledge of QuickBooks, and is a great follow-up course to QuickBooks Certificate.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Advanced setup including setting up users and classes.
• Advanced reporting to help you customise and filter your reports to suit your specific business needs.
• Inventory management to help you manage and track your business inventory.
• Issuing credit notes and refunds.
• Creating estimates, statements and progress invoices to help you manage your business better.
• Customising purchase orders and invoices by creating templates to match your business needs.
• Monitoring reimbursable expenses to help you track petty cash.
• Explaining Invoicing and cash sales to help you produce invoices for customers via mail and when utilising a point of sale solution.
• Budget set up, monitoring and reporting.

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Paying your employees using QuickBooks shows you how incorporating your QuickBooks and Payroll can save you time and effort, taking you through the entire payroll process step by step.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Setting up an employee in QuickBooks including their tax, superannuation and additional information.
• Standard and advanced pay runs including paying wages, salaries and additional pay types.
• Paying payroll liabilities to the Australian Taxation Office and how this is completed in QuickBooks.
• Completing End of Financial Year payment summaries.
• Emailing and printing payslips for your employees.
• Setting the payroll preferences in QuickBooks to make payroll management more efficient.
• Customising the chart of accounts for easy and compliant reporting, including how to track payroll to extract information into your profit & loss and balance sheets.
• Understanding how payroll Items operate and where they are directed to in your company file for reporting and recording purposes.
• Creating and customising payroll items specifically for your business.
• Creating employee defaults to track consistency throughout employees.
• Using tax scales including HECS and validating their accuracy.
• Establishing and tracking leave calculations.
• Using the EMPDUPE file and the ATO for your End of Financial Year reporting.
• Utilising ABA Files to help pay employees more efficiently.

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BAS & Company Reporting Using QuickBooks shows you how to produce your BAS within QuickBooks. It can help you check that QuickBooks is set up correctly to report the BAS by showing the relationships between data entered in the system.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Understanding GST and PAYG, which outlines how tax codes are utilised in QuickBooks.
• Setting up the GST preferences.
• Creating transactions with GST, which outlines how to enter bills and create invoices.
• Creating GST reports for the End of Financial Year and the End of Financial Quarter.
• Locating and correcting errors using advanced reports to locate incorrect data entries.
• Formatting and completing the BAS form, which includes setting up QuickBooks to track your businesses GST payable and receivables.
• Paying and depositing your GST amount, including how to record these transactions in QuickBooks.

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PayrollPremier Certificate is for anyone managing their payroll with Payroll Premier. It will take you through, step-by-step, how powerful and easy set up, processing and reporting can be in Payroll Premier.

Topics covered in the course include:

• Create Company Files
• Create Awards
• Create Departments
• Use The Tax Scale
• Create Wage/Salary Deductions
• Create Wage/Salary Rates
• Create Wage/Salary Allowances
• Track Workers Compensation
• Track Work Cover
• Passwords
• Process Pays
• Print Payslips
• Edit Pays
• Payroll Reporting
• Create Reports
• Termination Payments
• EFT Wages/Salary
• QuickBooks Integration
• Payment Summaries

• Job Class Costing

• Commissions

• Backup

Please note - this is not a course for users of the integrated payroll feature of QuickBooks. Payroll Premier is a standalone program, specifically for managing your payroll.

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QuickBooks Certificate for Bookkeepers shows you how to utilize the powerful QuickBooks software to meet your bookkeeping requirements. This course will show you how to use QuickBooks to perform the fundamental tasks of bookkeeping, and educate bookkeepers on the time saving aspects of this efficient, flexible software.

Topics covered in the course include:

Day 1

• Setting up a new company for new businesses or those wishing to start a new data file.

• Navigating QuickBooks.

• Creating and managing customers and suppliers, which helps you track your debtors and creditors.

• Creating and managing the items list in QuickBooks.

• An overview of how GST and tax codes are used in QuickBooks.

• Managing and creating tax codes correctly.

• Receiving payments from customers including an outline of the various payment types.

• Making and issuing adjustments and refunds.

• Paying and tracking bills in QuickBooks.

• Managing payment options, which outline the various options of paying bills in QuickBooks.

• Reconciling and balancing accounts.

• An overview of reporting in QuickBooks.

• Creating customised reports, which outlines how to modify, filter and change report templates.

Day 2

• Using the Audit Company File wizard to collate useful, high-level information relating to your company file, as well as perform an integrity check of your data.

• Review, troubleshoot and correct discrepancies in reconciled bank accounts.

• Creating a Business Activity Statement report.

• Reviewing the Business Activity Statement and checking for discrepancies.

• Creating memorised transactions and seeing how this can reduce the amount of data entry needed on repeat transactions.

• Creating statements for your customers that outlines customer balance history.

• Locating, resolving and correcting discrepancies within your file.

• Tools and functions to help you maintain the QuickBooks file in the best manner possible.

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QuickBooks Certificate for Accountant's

• An overview of the QuickBooks range.

• Setting up a new company for new businesses or those wishing to start a new data file.

• An overview of QuickBooks preferences.

• Navigating QuickBooks.

• Setting up, modifying and deleting the chart of accounts.

• Setting up GST and tax codes, including checking the accuracy and how these are used in QuickBooks.

• Tax Invoices, including fundamental elements in a tax invoice.

• Explanation of GST credits.

• Checking the accuracy of data entry for account reconciliation.

• An overview of QuickBooks reporting, including modifying reports to suit your business needs.

• Creating journal entries in QuickBooks.

• Completing a company file audit which collates useful, high-level information relating to your company file, as well as performs an integrity check of your data.

• Using closing dates.

• Integration of QuickBooks with general ledger programs, including importing QuickBooks data into general ledger programs.

• Identifying Common errors and Troubleshooting when working with on client files.

• End of Financial Year processing, involving reports and the QuickBooks Accountant’s edition, as well as QuickBooks housekeeping and interim maintenance of data files.

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