Certified Payroll Specialist 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 Consortia Accounting Business Advisors.

Consortia provides white label payroll services for payroll businesses.

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

Benefits

Completion of the Payroll Development Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Payroll career with Consortia Accounting Business Advisors,
2. Payroll position with a payroll or accounting business,
3. Payroll position with a small business, or
4. Payroll position with a corporation.

What Do Employers and Clients Want?

Employers and clients want payroll processors with the following (listed in order of importance):

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

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

Education Objective

Develop payroll knowledge and understanding.

Course‍

Payroll Fundamentals or course equivalent

Certification Objective

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

Certification‍

Payroll Certification

Training Objective

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

Training

‍‍‍Payroll with QuickBooks Online Payroll

Experience Objective

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

Experience

You perform payroll under the direction and supervision of a licensed Certified Payroll Specialist or CPS.

Payroll Experience (three months)

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.