• Simply Accounting Level I

  • Simply Accounting Level II

  • Simply Accounting Level III

  • QuickBooks Level I

  • QuickBooks Level II

  • QuickBooks Level III

  • Payroll with Simply Accounting

  • Payroll with QuickBooks

  • Bookkeeping with Simply Accounting

  • How to Prevent Fraud

  • How to Hire a Bookkeeper

  • How to Prevent Fraud and Hire a Bookkeeper

Simply Accounting Level 1

So you need to learn to use Simply Accounting, but you don't have a lot of time. This one-day course is for you! You'll save time and money, navigate your way with confidence, master the basics, and learn a wealth of tips and shortcuts to boot! ASK Inc's workshops not only show you how the program works ... but we will also provide bookkeeping tips, streamline and simplify your processes, and solve your bookkeeping problems.

ASK Inc. 2012 manual is 221 pages that provides step by step captured-screen images so you can follow along step by step and use for reference later. Find out what is new in 2012!

The following topics are covered in Simply Accounting Level 1:

  • How to navigate in Simply Accounting
  • Understanding Set-up Settings
  • Simple procedures to put into place
    • Understanding Cut-off dates
    • Consistency
  • Chart of Accounts (Creating, modifying, deleting)
  • General Journal Transactions (when to use)
  • Accounts Payable
    • Supplier Invoices (Purchasing inventory and
           non-inventory items)
    • Creating inventory and service items
    • Credits
    • Editing/Correcting/Reversing Entries
    • Recurring Entries
  • Payments Journal
    • Cheques (manual/computerized)
    • Debit purchases
    • Online purchases
    • Credits
    • Partial payments
    • Reverse/Edit Payments
  • Credit Card Purchases
    • How to handle Credit Card purchases
           properly
    • Setting up Credit Cards
    • Editing/Voiding Credit Card purchases
  • Accounts Receivable
    • Sales (creating client invoices)
    • Credit Card Sales
    • Recurring Entries
    • Editing and voiding entries
  • Receipts
    • Immediate
    • Overpayments
    • Void/edit payments
  • Month End Reports
    • Income statement, Balance Sheet, Inventory,
           A/P, and A/R
  • Backing up your data

Simply Accounting Level 2

This information-packed one-day course will give you the advanced mastery and expertise to use the many amazing features of Simply Accounting to make sound, profitable business decisions. ASK Inc. courses are not about perfect case; we use scenarios that small businesses deal with every single day. We don't just teach the software - we teach its application to your real-life business problems! Master useful tips like handling loans, what to do if your GST does not balance with the Balance Sheet, knowing which Alberta companies need to collect HST, emailing invoices, changing Simply to suit your business needs, NSF, Bad Debts, Business Reports, Management Reports, Customizing Reports, and much more. ASK Inc. can show you how!

ASK Inc. 2012 manual is 233 pages that provides step by step captured-screen images so you can follow along step by step and use for reference later. Find out what is new in 2012!

Don’t forget to bring your questions! Small class sizes allow you to bring bookkeeping questions to class for the instructor to help you.

Simply Accounting Level 2 covers:

  • Reconciling your bank accounts
    • First time
    • Reconciling
    • Reconciling mid-year
    • Customer deposits
    • Creating deposit slips - eliminate the deposit book!
    • Recording deposits
  • Accounts Payable
    • Purchase Orders
    • Fixed asset purchases
    • Down payments
    • Emailing forms
    • Customizing journals
  • Accounts Receivable
    • Creating sales orders
    • Progress invoicing
    • Emailing invoices
    • Charging interest on overdue accounts
    • Sending customer statements (email/printing)
    • Customizing Journals
  • Inventory
    • Setting up inventory and service items
    • Writing off damaged goods, theft
    • Handling inventory used for business purposes (advertising, supplies, etc.)
    • Item Assembly and Bill of Materials
  • Handling NSF cheques
  • Writing off bad debts
  • GST Remittances
    • What to look for when GST doesn't balance with your Balance Sheet
    • Who should be collecting HST
  • Project/Department accounting
    • How to use it
    • Who should use it
  • Management Reports
    • Maximizing your profitability
    • Industry specific reports
    • Exporting reports
  • Customizing Simply Accounting for your needs
    • Customizing invoices
    • Customizing journals
    • Customizing shortcuts
    • Terminology
    • Comments
  • Miscellaneous
    • Merging accounts (how & when to use)
    • Do not allow transactions dated before
    • Multiple price levels
    • Checklists
  • Backing up
    • Your data
    • Creating automatic back ups
    • Restoring your data

Simply Accounting Level 3

Are you like so many other accounting software users - lucky if you're using 40% of your program's capabilities? Simply Accounting is an amazing program! Properly used, it can make your job a whole lot easier and create efficiencies you never dreamed were possible. ASK Inc can show you how!

In Simply Accounting Levels I and II, we taught you how to use the program confidently and efficiently to save you time and money. This final one-day course tops up your knowledge and capacity to use Simply with the ultimate expertise. Did you know Simply can reconcile your bank accounts and import and export transactions automatically? Learn how to setup and adjust Budgets with ease. Learn how to do an Accountant's Copy and Year End in detail. Once again, this fast-paced and information-packed session will amaze and satisfy you. While you're enjoying the snowbird life, have paying bills and payroll created problems for you? We have a great solution for you, and you don't have to go anywhere near the office to do it!

Simply Accounting Level 3 covers:

  • Downloading bank statements
    • Letting the system do the work for you
    • Balance your bank statements in record time!
  • Budgets
    • Setting up budgets
    • Updating budgets
    • Importing/Exporting Budgets (Excel)
    • Reporting
  • Foreign Currency
    • Setting up accounts
    • Setting up Vendors
    • Setting up Customers
    • Setting up Inventory
    • Tracking Import Duty
    • Purchases
    • Sales
    • Reporting
  • Self Auditing (Finding Errors)
    • Reports to review
    • How to find your own errors
    • What to look for
  • Importing/Exporting Invoices
    • Accounts Payable invoices
    • Accounts Receivable invoices
    • Setting up Customers/Vendors
    • Adjusting imports
  • Year End Process
    • Year End Checklist (Electronic copy provided)
    • What not to do!
    • Turning over your year end in Simply
    • Handling Year End Adjusting Entries
  • Creating an Accountants Copy
    • No need to manually enter the year end adjusting entries
    • Advantages & Disadvantages of this process
    • What can you do in the Accountants Copy and what you cannot do

QuickBooks Level 1

QuickBooks has a whole new look for 2012! Come and discover these great new features!

Learn the basics of QuickBooks in one day! This one-day course will teach you QuickBooks procedures and features, including many shortcuts and tips to make your job easier and save you time and money. ASK us how!

The hardest part of learning a new program is where to enter the data. Self-taught learners tend to fear that they're not doing things right. This workshop will answer questions such as: Should I use Write Cheques versus Enter Bills, Pay Bills. Can I enter everything in receipts or should I use invoices and receipts. What is the difference between the two? Can I enter everything through the General Journal? These, and so many more questions, are covered in this one day workshop.

ASK Inc. 2012 manual is 265 pages that provides step by step captured-screen images so you can follow along step by step and use for reference later. ASK Inc.'s manuals have it all!

The following topics are covered in QuickBooks Level 1:

  • How to Navigate in QuickBooks (Workflow)
  • Preferences
  • Multiple Companies
         (Open 2 companies at the same time)
         - Premium and Enterprise only
  • Customize Home Page
         (Icon bar/Multiple windows/Favorites)
  • Working with Lists
         (Chart of Accounts/Items/
         Memorized Transaction/Multiple List Entries)
  • Help Menu, Live Community, Calendar View
         - To Do’s, and Learning Centre
  • Working with Centre's (Customer/Vendor/Report)
  • Registers (Learn what not to do here!)
  • Chart of Accounts (Creating/Deleting/Editing)
  • Simple procedures to put into place to save you money!
    • Understanding Cutoff dates (importance/how)
    • Consistency
  • Make General Journal Entries
    • What goes in here
    • Memorized Transactions
  • Transferring Monies
  • Working with Items
    • Creating/Editing
    • Inventory Items
    • Service Items (To save you time)
    • Single units of measure
  • Vendor Centre
    • Vendors (Creating/Editing/Deleting/Reports)
    • Entering Bills (New added features)
    • Non-Inventory
    • Inventory Items
    • Editing/Voiding
    • Memorize Transactions
  • Credit Cards
    • Setting Up Credit Cards
    • Credit Card Purchases
    • Reconciling and Paying Credit Cards
    • Credits
    • Viewing, Adjusting and Voiding Credit Card Purchases
  • Paying Bills
    • Cheque (manual cheques/computerized cheques)
    • Debit purchases
    • Online purchases
    • Credits
    • Partial Payments
    • Batch printing cheques
  • Customer Centre
    • Customers (Creating/Editing/Deleting/Reports)
    • Invoicing (New added features)
    • One-Click Credit Memo’s (New feature)
    • Credit Card Sales
    • Creating invoices/editing/voiding
    • Batch Invoicing (New feature)
    • Emailing Invoices
    • Memorize Transactions
  • Receiving Payments
    • Immediate
    • Overpayments
    • Underpayments
    • Void/Edit payments
  • Month End Reports
    • Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Inventory,
           A/P, and A/R
  • Backing Up Your Data

QuickBooks Level 2

So you've got a good grasp of the concepts of QuickBooks Level I. You're ready for the next step - understanding the special requirements and specific issues of a business. This advanced one day QuickBooks course is tailor-made for small business. We have the answers. Just askinc!

Spend a fast-paced, answer-packed, information-loaded day with us, and become more efficient and confident in QuickBooks as you learn useful tips like recording loans, handling GST Warnings, NSF Cheques, Bad Debts, emailing invoices, customizing reports and saving them, etc. We'll teach you how you can make this powerful accounting system do amazing things for you and your business.

ASK Inc. 2012 manual is 246 pages that provides step by step captured-screen images so you can follow along step by step and use for reference later. Find out what is new in 2012!

Don’t forget to bring your questions! Small class sizes allow you to bring bookkeeping questions to class for the instructor (Certified ProAdvisor) to help you.

The topics we'll cover in QuickBooks Level 2 include:

  • Inventory and Items
    • Entering/Ordering/Adjusting
    • Group Items
    • Multiple units of measure
    • Writing off inventory (theft/damaged goods)
    • Inventory Counts/Adjustments
    • Inventory used for business use (advertising/supplies)
    • Multiple price levels
  • Purchases
    • Purchase orders
    • Receiving goods with an invoice and without
    • Email forms
    • Down payments
    • Merging Vendors
  • Customers
    • Multiple price levels
    • Creating sales orders
    • Jobs and Estimates
    • Back orders
    • Creating multiple estimates
    • Progress invoicing
    • Collection Centre (New)
    • Customer deposits - undeposited funds
    • Invoice letters
    • Reminder statements
  • Customer Deposits
    • Using undeposited funds
    • Never fill out a deposit book again!
  • Preventing fraud - putting controls in place
  • Balancing bank accounts
    • Reconciling the First Time
    • Reconciling Mid Year
    • Handling Discrepancies
    • Cleared Transactions Beware
  • Fixed Assets (Purchasing and Tracking)
  • Managing Lists (Sorting/inactive/merging/printing)
  • Handling NSF Cheques
  • Bad Debts
  • Sales Tax - GST and HST
    • Reporting
    • Remitting
    • Handling GST Warnings
    • Who should be collecting HST
  • Reports
    • Adjusting reports to fit your needs
    • Creating PDF files
    • Creating report groups - month end
    • Printing batch reports
    • Making sense out of your financial statements
    • Exporting your data to Excel and updating with ease (Amazing new feature)
  • Setting Dates, Passwords, and cut-off dates
  • Customizing your forms
    • Adding your logo
    • Changing your invoice
  • Backing up Your Data & Restoring Your Data

QuickBooks Level 3

Coming in 2012!

Are you - like so many other accounting software users - lucky if you're even using 40% of the program's capabilities? QuickBooks is a remarkable and powerful program, and can make your life a whole lot easier. ASK Inc can show you how!

You've already learned the basics in Level I and specific small-business applications in Level II. Now you're ready to fine-tune how you use QuickBooks to manage and grow your business, while you continue to learn tips to save you even more time and money! Did you know QuickBooks can automatically calculate your loan payments; reconcile your bank account; put in your year-end adjusting entries, and much, much more? This final one-day QuickBooks workshop is as fast-paced and information-packed as Levels I and II, and will amaze you. We have a great solution for snowbird employers - and no, you don't have to be at the office to pay bills!

QuickBooks Level 3 covers the following:

  • Adding loans
    • Automatically separating principle from interest
  • Downloading bank statements
    • Letting the system do the work for you
  • Foreign currencies
  • Merchant Services in QuickBooks
  • Creating budgets
  • Learning to audit yourself
  • Paying bills from anywhere in the world
  • Year End process in detail
  • Year End adjusting entries from the accountant
    • Converting the file

Payroll with Simply Accounting

Simply Accounting Payroll has a whole new look for 2012! Come and discover these great new features! ASK Inc.'s manuals have it all!

Payroll is one of the most difficult and complex areas in business. This course has the answers to your payroll questions and will give you the confidence to do your own. The in-depth instruction will take you through all aspects of payroll, from the very basics to adding employee health benefits; from producing ROE forms to balancing and printing T4's. ASK Inc. believes in not only teaching the software program, but in also providing useable and practical tools to assist you.

This unique course provides actual documents that you can take back to your office and adapt to your own company. These include electronic copies of an Employee Profile Sheet (Hire Sheet), Policy and Procedure Manual, Advance Request forms, Employee Release Form, and a Stat Eligibility Calculation Form (Excel).

The following topics are covered in Payroll with Simply Accounting:

  • Payroll set up Overview
  • Setting up Payroll Accounts
  • Creating Employees
  • Editing Employee Files
  • Paying Employees
  • Payroll Advances
  • Vacation Pay (Setting up and Releasing)
  • Editing, Correcting, and Reversing Entries
  • Entering Taxes Manually
  • Adding Income Types
  • Adding Deductions Types
  • Setting up Employee Benefits
  • Time Slips
  • Invoicing Customers from Time Slip Activities
  • Linked Accounts (In-depth)
  • Reduced Premium Rate for Employers (EI)
  • Employee versus Self-Employed (Contractor)
  • Remitting Payroll Deductions
         (Receiver General and Benefits)
  • WCB (Setting up and Remitting)
  • Payroll Reports
  • Record of Employment (ROE)
  • TD1 Forms
  • Balancing T4's
  • Printing T4's and T4 Summary
  • Batch Printing
  • Payroll Cheque Runs (Whole new look and easy to use!)

Payroll with QuickBooks

QuickBooks 2012 added a new Bonus feature; find out how it works!

Payroll is one of the most difficult and complex areas in business. This course has the answers to your payroll questions and will give you the confidence to do your own. The in-depth instruction will take you through all aspects of payroll, from the very basics to adding employee health benefits; from producing ROE forms to balancing and printing T4's. ASK Inc. believes in not only teaching the software program, but in also providing useable and practical tools to assist you.

This unique course provides actual documents that you can take back to your office and adapt to your own company. These include electronic copies of an Employee Profile Sheet (Hire Sheet), Policy and Procedure Manual, Advance Request forms, Employee Release Form, and a Stat Eligibility Calculation Form (Excel).

The following topics are covered in Payroll with QuickBooks:

  • Payroll set up Overview
  • Setting up Payroll Items (Creating and Editing)
  • Stat Pay, Benefits (employee and employer’s share), etc.
  • Creating Employees
  • Editing Employee Files
  • Changing New Employee Default Settings
  • Preferences for Payroll & Employees
  • Setting up Payroll Schedules
  • Paying Employees
  • Payroll Advances
  • Vacation Pay/Stat Pay (Setting up and Paying Out)
  • Editing, Correcting, and Reversing Entries
  • Setting up Employee Benefits in detail
         (Employee records and Payroll Items)
  • Time Slips
  • Invoicing Customers from Time Sheets
  • Termination Cheques
  • Reduced Premium Rate for Employers (EI)
  • Employee versus Self-Employed (Contractor)
  • Remitting Payroll Deductions
         (Receiver General and Benefits)
  • WCB (Setting up and Remitting)
  • Payroll Reports
  • Record of Employment (ROE)
  • TD1 Forms
  • Balancing T4's
  • Printing T4's and T4 Summary
  • Batch Printing
  • Payroll Cheque Runs

Small Business Bookkeeping with Simply Accounting

3 Day Intensive Workshop

  • Know how to make the entries - but don't understand the logic?
  • Get confused correcting errors?
  • Starting a new business and don't understand bookkeeping procedures?
  • Need help balancing the bank/credit card accounts?
  • Trying to use Simply Accounting, but find it hard to navigate?
  • Need someone to walk you through basic bookkeeping?
  • Need help remitting GST, payroll deductions, and WCB?
  • Don't know how to read financial statements?

Are we talking about you? ASK Inc has the answers you need!

Get a handle on basic bookkeeping concepts in the mornings - and apply them in Simply Accounting in the afternoons. This superior training in a condensed 3-day format provides a fast-paced, customized, hands-on learning experience with immediate practical application in your own work environment.

We'll Help You:

  • Learn - and retain - basic bookkeeping skills
  • Use Simply Accounting effectively and efficiently

Bookkeeping

  • Understanding Financial Statements
  • (Income Statement and Balance Sheet)
  • Understanding the Accounting Cycle
  • Understanding Debits and Credits
  • Recording transactions
  • General Ledger
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Accounts Payable
  • Payroll
  • Inventory
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • GST
  • Month-end procedures

Simply Accounting

  • How to navigate in Simply Accounting
  • Chart of Accounts (creating, modifying, and deleting)
  • General Journal transactions
  • Accounts Payable (purchases, payables,
    and payments)
  • Credit Card Purchases
  • Accounts Receivable (sales, receivables,
    and deposits)
  • Credit Card Sales
  • Payroll module (create employees, pay cheques,
    and advances)
  • Editing, correcting, and reversing entries
  • Recurring entries
  • Creating and reconciling bank accounts
  • Exporting Reports
  • GST Remittances
  • Payroll Remittances
  • Bank Reconciliations
  • How to handle NSF cheques
  • Bad Debts
  • Month-end procedures
  • Self-Auditing (Finding your errors)
  • Backing-up your data

How to Prevent Fraud

NEW WORKSHOP!

As a business owner or manager, you know how easy it is to lose major profits to fraud committed by an employee, partner, supplier or customer.

Believing it will never happen to you is only wishful thinking and the thought that your company is too small to put systems or checks and procedures into place is dangerous. For thieves, any opportunity is a good one. The importance of monitoring and protecting your company cannot be overstated!

In this three-hour workshop, you will learn the key areas to monitor, how to put effective protective systems in place, and how to keep your hard-earned profits.

This will be the most informative and enlightening workshop you will ever take!

The following areas will be covered:

  • Internal controls to help stop and prevent fraud
    • Systems, checks and procedures to put in place
  • Fraud through disbursements, expenses and purchases
    • What to do and signs to look for
  • Fraud through customers
    • What to do and signs to look for
  • Online banking
    • How to put controls on your bank and signs to watch for
  • The dangers of incompetence
  • Simply Accounting and QuickBooks reports
    • Which several key reports to monitor
  • Self-auditing
    • Techniques that will assist in finding errors against fraud and incompetence

How to Hire a Bookkeeper

NEW WORKSHOP!

In this highly-targeted workshop, you’ll learn how to hire a bookkeeper: everything from developing the job ad, to discovering where to advertise for maximum impact, to key questions to ask during the interview—with sample answers provided to help you identify the most desirable candidates. Let this three-hour workshop help you hire exactly the bookkeeper that your company needs!

The following areas will be covered:

  • The Hiring Process
    • Defining the Job
    • Advertising
    • Interviewing Process (Includes potential questions to ask)

How to Prevent Fraud & Hire a Bookkeeper

(Two Same Day Workshops)

NEW WORKSHOPS!

As a business owner or manager, you know the importance of monitoring and protecting your company! In these highly targeted workshops, you’ll learn effective protective systems and valuable hiring techniques.

How to Prevent Fraud

As a business owner or manager, you know how easy it is to lose major profits to fraud committed by an employee, partner, supplier or customer.

Believing it will never happen to you is only wishful thinking and the thought that your company is too small to put systems or checks and procedures into place is dangerous. For thieves, any opportunity is a good one. The importance of monitoring and protecting your company cannot be overstated!

In this three-hour workshop, you will learn the key areas to monitor, how to put effective protective systems in place, and how to keep your hard-earned profits.

This will be the most informative and enlightening workshop you will ever take!

The following areas will be covered:

  • Internal controls to help stop and prevent fraud
    • Systems, checks and procedures to put in place
  • Fraud through disbursements, expenses and purchases
    • What to do and signs to look for
  • Fraud through customers
    • What to do and signs to look for
  • Online banking
    • How to put controls on your bank and signs to watch for
  • The dangers of incompetence
  • Simply Accounting and QuickBooks reports
    • Which several key reports to monitor
  • Self-auditing
    • Techniques that will assist in finding errors against fraud and incompetence

How to Hire a Bookkeeper

In this highly-targeted workshop, you’ll learn how to hire a bookkeeper: everything from developing the job ad, to discovering where to advertise for maximum impact, to key questions to ask during the interview—with sample answers provided to help you identify the most desirable candidates. Let this three-hour workshop help you hire exactly the bookkeeper that your company needs!

The following areas will be covered:

  • The Hiring Process
    • Defining the Job
    • Advertising
    • Interviewing Process (Includes potential questions to ask)
Maximize your software - and your time - by investing in these super-productive workshops! Register Now!


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