Become a Certified Public Bookkeeper

Certified Public Bookkeeper Program

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

Learn and apply best practice bookkeeping from Consortia Small Business Accountants.

Consortia provides 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 Public Bookkeeper Program prepares you for the following opportunities:

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

CPB Program candidates and graduates participate in the Need a Bookkeeper? Program.

What Do Employers and Clients Want?

Employers and clients 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. Increase operating cash flow.
3. Prepare timely, relevant, and reliable financial information.
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

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@nacpb.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

Training Objective

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

Training

‍Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online

Experience Objective

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

Experience

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

Bookkeeping Experience (three months)

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.