98    

Starting a Small Business

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Thinking about starting your own business? Come get your questions answered. What entity type choices do I have? Do I really need help setting it up? Do I need a license? How do I get setup? How much capital should I have? What do I need to keep track of? How should I keep track? How do I do my taxes? These are just a few of the questions facing the potential entrepreneur.

99    

Setting Up Your Business Entity

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

with Noura Yunker, Attorney at Law

Pre-requisite 98 Starting a Small Business or similar knowledge. Now you know you want to be your own boss, come file all the necessary license applications and forms. At the end of the workshop you will be a business owner.

100

Intro to QuickBooks

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Course designed for participants with no QuickBooks experience. This hands on course will cover downloading the free version of QuickBooks Simple Start and creating a data file. Working with lists, transactions, reports and data file security. Comparison of the different QuickBooks versions and an overview of basic business bookkeeping. Bring a memory stick if you would like to take the data file with you to work with.

110

QuickBooks Beginning User – 3 sessions

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Courses designed for participants with some experience using QuickBooks but are not yet comfortable with the basic functions. These hands-on courses will cover, but are not limited to: data protection/backup/restore, working with lists and reports, creating transactions, customizing preferences, and memorized transactions. 

130

Bank Reconciliation in QuickBooks

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Have you been posting transactions in QuickBooks but are unsure how to reconcile your accounts with your bank statements? Working with your QuickBooks data file and bank statements you will enter any un-posted transactions, learn to make corrections as needed, and reconcile your bank accounts. Bring your bank statements for 2009, check registers, deposit receipts and your QuickBooks data file on your laptop or a memory stick. If you bring a memory stick and/or you use QuickBooks for Mac please contact the office for instructions.

This class is not designed to resolve complicated data file errors or extreme amounts of un-posted or un-reconciled data – if you need help with this, please call the office for guidance.

140  

Excise/Sales Tax Preparation

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

In this hands-on workshop you will produce reports, prepare and file your Washington State Department of Revenue business and occupation tax return. Bring your QuickBooks data file on your laptop or a memory stick. If you bring a memory stick and/or you use QuickBooks for Mac please contact the office for instructions. If you do not use QuickBooks please contact the office to find out what documentation to bring in lieu of a data file. Lastly, if you plan to pay your taxes electronically please bring your bank information.

We strongly recommend all bank accounts be reconciled in QuickBooks prior to filing your taxes. If you would like help reconciling please consider attending a Saturday Users Workshop or our 130 Bank Reconciliation in QuickBooks course prior to this workshop.

210

QuickBooks Inventory

Instructor – Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Pre-requisite 110 QuickBooks course or similar experience. Participants will create items, work with purchase orders, item receipts, vendor bills and payments, inventory adjustments, and reports.

220

Excel Tips & Tools

Instructor – Jennifer Clark, QuickBooks Pro Advisor

Participants should be comfortable working with the standard functions at a high beginner/intermediate level. Class will cover shortcuts, formulas used in bookkeeping, merging text, linked sheets, introduction to pivot tables & working with exported QuickBooks report data. Please note, this class will be taught using the 2003 version of Excel.

225

Introduction to Blogging

Instructor – Designermama (http://designermama-manaallamano.blogspot.com)

In today’s world of internet advertising, blogging to build your small business is not only good sense, it’s essential. Are you ready to set up a blog for your small business but don’t know how? In this easy to follow along two hour class we will go step by step through the process of setting up a Blogger website and by the end of the class you will launch your brand new blog! 

230

Social Media: What It Is & How It Can Help You Achieve Your Business Goals

Instructor – Zibby Wilder, www.zwilder.com

Everyone is talking about social media, but with all the commotion over tools like Twitter, Facebook, blogging and more, how is a business owner supposed to know which tools are going to be best? This course will cover the major social media tools: blogs, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and provide proven strategic planning methods to discover which of these tools can best help achieve your business goals.

X90

QuickBooks Users Workshop

Deborah Asavarahapun, Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor, will be on hand to help you resolve your bookkeeping problems the second Saturday of each month. Bring your QuickBooks data file on a memory stick or bring your laptop and your documents and get your questions answered while you get your work done. Drop-ins are welcome but space is limited.