Bookkeeping Training Program
at Penn Foster
Remote Catalog
About
If you have a sharp eye for detail and enjoy thinking critically to solve problems, becoming a bookkeeper could be the perfect career for you. With Penn Foster College's online Bookkeeping classes, you can take the first steps toward a new job you enjoy while learning essential finance and accounting skills and exploring a career in business.
- Prepares students for jobs in finance in roles such as bookkeeper or accounting clerk.
- Curriculum covers essential knowledge from assets and liabilities to revenue and expenses, a comprehensive understanding of QuickBooks Online Plus™, and a special final project involving business ownership.
- Enrolled students receive a one year subscription to QuickBooks Online.
- Our online programs are flexible enough for you to finish them at a pace that works for you, based on how much time you can dedicate to your coursework each week.
Takes
6 Months
Costs
$700
Leads to
$45.9k careers
Example Career
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.
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What skills and credentials will I gain?
Earn an online Bookkeeping Career Diploma. Skills covered in the Penn Foster Bookkeeping Program include financial reporting, assets and end-of-month activities, basics of Excel® and Quickbooks, accounting, revenue, expenses, and trial balances, inventory and payroll, liabilities and owner’s equity, and more.
Admissions
- Education - 8th Grade
- Technology Requirements - You will need access to high-speed internet to begin your program. In addition, you will need access to a Microsoft® Windows® based computer running Windows 10® or later or an Apple® Mac® computer running macOS® Sierra Version 11.2 or later, Microsoft® Office 2019 or Microsoft 365®, and an email account to complete this program with Penn Foster.
