Real value is a result of learning technical skills like applications, in conjunction with specific goals, like accounting goals, including being able to interpret the performance of a business. Many courses teach QuickBooks data entry or Excel functions but are not providing the real value learners want.
He accomplishes the goals of making accounting useful and applicable by combining theory with real-world software like Excel and QuickBooks. Steele’s formal accounting education, practical work experience, and substantial teaching experience allow him to create a curriculum that combines traditional accounting education with practical knowledge and application. In other words, learners want to be able to apply skills in the real world to help their lives.
Steele's teaching philosophy is to make content applicable, understandable, and accessible.Īdult learners are looking for application when they learn new skills. Steele has helped create an accounting website at accountinginstruction, a YouTube channel called Accounting Instruction, Help, and How Too, and has developed supplemental resources including a Facebook Page, Twitter Page, and Podcasts that can be found on I-tunes, Stitcher, or Soundcloud. In addition to working as an accountant, teaching, and developing courses Mr. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA). He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast.
Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. The matching of bank feed data to data impute forms can help with the bank reconciliation process, as we match up what has been entered into QuickBooks with what has cleared the bank. The course will cover how bank feed data can be matched to transactions such as invoices, sales receipt forms, receive payment forms, deposit forms, bills, and checks.
Learners will understand how to generate bank rules to make the data input process faster as time passes, the first moth of data input often being the most difficult due to not having prior transactions to refer back to.Īs we construct bank feed transactions we will consider the difference between a cash method and an accrual method, the difference between an accounting system that is created from the bank data and an accounting system that uses bank data to verify data input. The course will add bank feed data to the financial statement, breaking the process out into cash increase transactions and cash decrease transactions. We will import bank feed data into our QuickBooks system. We will discuss how bank feeds can fit into an accounting system, how to setup bank feeds, and how to construct financial statements using bank feed data.