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Accounting Assistant

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  • qualified review approval is required
  • reviewer identity, qualification, evidence, and approval date are required

What this course establishes

  • Convert authorized source documents into balanced, coded and traceable journal and subledger records without changing source evidence
  • Operate controlled receivable, payable, expense, cash and payroll-handoff workflows with independent approvals, duplicate prevention and exception escalation
  • Prepare reconciliations, adjusting-entry support, close schedules and accessible financial reports whose balances trace to evidence and whose unresolved items remain visible

Entry knowledge

  • Basic arithmetic and spreadsheet use
  • Ability to follow written approval and confidentiality procedures
  • Comfort comparing records line by line

Scope boundaries

  • Uses fictional entities, vendors, customers, workers, accounts and transactions; learners must not upload real bank, card, payroll, tax, identity or customer records
  • Does not authorize payments, bank changes, journal posting, payroll processing, tax filing, audit opinions or accounting-policy decisions and does not replace a controller, licensed accountant, auditor, payroll/tax professional, attorney, bank or authorized approver

Fastest competency route

Completion is self-paced and competency-based. Prior bookkeeping experience shortens study only when every source, coding, entry, subledger, payment, receipt, payroll-handoff, reconciliation, close, control, privacy and reporting criterion is demonstrated; no fixed duration, job, credential, posting authority, tax result, audit conclusion or error-free operation is promised.

  1. Pass diagnostics in accounting equations, debits/credits, source records, coding, subledgers, AP, AR, cash, payroll handoffs, reconciliation, adjustments, close and internal controls
  2. Complete the synthetic transaction audit and a controlled month-end close binder
  3. Correct every duplicate invoice, wrong entity/period/currency, unsupported vendor bank change, unapproved payment, stale receivable, unapplied cash, missing bank item, payroll total mismatch, source alteration, one-sided journal, unreconciled subledger and inaccessible report

Full self-paced route

  1. Source documents, accounting equation, journals, ledgers and audit trail
  2. Receivables, payables, purchasing, expenses, cash and payroll/tax handoffs
  3. Reconciliation, adjustments, close, financial statements, internal controls and records
  4. Applied accounting-operations portfolio and final assessment

Lesson and assessment map

01

Source documents, accounting equation, journals, ledgers, and audit trail

Create balanced traceable records from authorized source evidence while preserving entity, period, currency, account and approval context.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

02

Payables, receivables, purchasing, expenses, cash, and payroll handoffs

Operate transaction cycles with accurate subledgers, independent approvals, verified master data and controlled cash movement.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

03

Reconciliation, adjusting entries, period close, reporting, and internal control

Prepare a complete close package whose balances, estimates, exceptions, access and reports are traceable and independently reviewable.

4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.

Required applied assignment

Process and close a fictional accounting period

Use only the supplied synthetic records. Build a source-to-report accounting package without authorizing or releasing real payments, accessing accounts, processing payroll, filing taxes or changing real ledgers. Every posting, payment, payroll, tax, policy and close decision remains subject to authorized qualified review.

  • Source register, duplicate/entity/period/currency checks, balanced journals, ledger and subledger postings, trial balance, batch controls and correction trail
  • AP match and exception work, verified vendor-change process, payment-preparation control, AR invoices/aging/cash application and payroll-handoff reconciliation
  • Bank/card and subledger reconciliations, adjustments with reversal logic, cutoff/flux review, close checklist, exception and remediation log
  • Linked accessible statements and schedules, segregation/access/retention matrices, control tests, corrected audit ledger, source/change register and checksum archive

Passing standard: 85 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.

Continue after this course

  • Bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll support, inventory accounting or general-ledger operations
  • Intermediate accounting, tax, audit, fraud examination, accounting systems or financial analysis
  • Jurisdiction- and employer-specific credentials checked with their official providers; this internal course is not an accounting credential