Certified Public Bookkeeper Program

Become one of America's most qualified bookkeepers. Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper and place CPB behind your name.

Learn best practice bookkeeping from Consortia Accounting Business Advisors. Consortia provides white label accounting services to accounting businesses.

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

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

Benefits

The Certified Public Bookkeeper Program prepares you for the following opportunities:

1. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with a bookkeeping or accounting business,
2. Start a bookkeeping business,
3. Part or full-time bookkeeping position with a small business, or
4. Part or full-time clerk position with a corporation.
5. Get on the Need a Bookkeeper? program list.

These opportunities are not guaranteed. However, the better you perform in the Program, the more likely you are to receive one of these opportunities.

What Do Employers Want?

Employers want bookkeepers with the following (listed in order of importance):

1. Bookkeeping knowledge, accreditation, experience, and ethics,
2. Personality conducive to their company culture, and
3. Appearance conducive to their company culture.

Objectives

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.

Steps‍

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

Education Objective

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

Courses

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)

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@certifiedpublicbookkeeper.org.

Each course you opt out of reduces the CPB Program monthly payments by one month. If you opt out of the three courses, you reduce the payments by three months.

Certification Objective

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

Certifications

1. Bookkeeping Certification
2. QuickBooks Online Certification
3. Payroll Certification (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program¹)

Training Objective

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

Training

1. ‍‍Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online
2. ‍Payroll with QuickBooks Online Payroll

Experience Objective

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

Experience

You perform bookkeeping and payroll under the direction and supervision of a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper or CPB.

Bookkeeping Experience (six months)
Payroll Experience (three months²)

Certified Public Bookkeeper (CPB) License Objective

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

CPB License

Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper or CPB.

This program completes the CPB 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.

Notes

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.