Last updated: February 17 2021

Become a Bookkeeper of Tomorrow, Today

Now is the right time to consider a career in professional bookkeeping, as small business owners in Canada need your help to navigate the repercussions of the pandemic and its fallout. Meet the high demand for qualified practitioners to take the burden of bookkeeping and CRA remittances off their shoulders. Become a credentialled bookkeeping services specialist.

The demand.  Busy small business owners in your community are in desperate need for highly reliable and qualified bookkeeping services to  interpret the documentation and assemble it so that they can make  smart tax-efficient choices with consideration to the future financial health of the business.

Get the technical skills you’ll need to do this highly valued work: with the DFA-Bookkeeping Services Specialist™ Designation program.  Your confidence will grow with your knowledge and skills by doing the true-to-life case studies and learning with newly updated online textbooks and quizzes.

Plus, you can save money by enroling this month.  Until February 28, take the first three courses in the DFA-Bookkeeping Services Specialist™ Designation and save 25%.  Check out the curriculum below.  You’ll earn a diploma too, as a Certified Bookkeeping Practitioner.

Use code: 21VDAY      Offer expires February 28, 2021

The Curriculum:

Bookkeeping in a Digital World

Learn how to interpret and record documentation for financial statement preparation.

Course Content:

  • Chapter 1 | The Roles and Responsibilities of the Bookkeeper
  • Chapter 2 | Types of Organizations, Fiscal Periods and Accounting Cycles
  • Chapter 3 | Types of Accounts and the Basic Accounting Equation
  • Chapter 4 | Chart of Accounts, General Ledger, Trial Balance & Special Accounts
  • Chapter 5 | Journals, Registers and Ledgers - I
  • Chapter 6 | Journals, Registers and Ledgers - II
  • Chapter 7 | Fundamental Cash-basis Accounting
  • Chapter 8 | Fundamentals of Accrual Accounting
  • Chapter 9 | Period-end Procedures
  • Chapter 10 | Documentation, File Maintenance & Due Dates
  • Chapter 11 | Payroll—an Introduction

Advanced Payroll for Small Business

Learn how to integrate tax efficient payroll processes in post-pandemic workplaces.

Course Content:

  • Chapter 1 | The Role of the Payroll Department in a Digital World
  • Chapter 2 | Compliance Responsibilities: Remittances, Audits and Penalties
  • Chapter 3 | The Payroll Cycle and Its Components
  • Chapter 4 | Hiring Employees: Employment Standards, Contracts, Required Forms
  • Chapter 5 | Paying Employees: Compensation and Benefits
  • Chapter 6 | Paying Owner Managers: Salary, Benefits, Dividends, TOSI
  • Chapter 7 | Statutory Deductions: CPP, EI and Income Tax
  • Chapter 8 | Other Deductions
  • Chapter 9 | Taxable and Tax-Free Benefits
  • Chapter 10 | Termination and Severance
  • Chapter 11 | Year-End Reporting

Advanced Tax & Pandemic Course

Learn how to integrate recent government programs into small business accounting and tax services.

Course Content:

  • Lesson 1 | Introduction to T1 Filing and Planning
  • Lesson 2  | 2020 T1 Tax Theory Changes
  • Lesson 3   | Unique Taxfiler Profiles
  • Lesson 4   | Family Filing
  • Lesson 5   | Simple Employment Profiles
  • Lesson 6   | More Complex Employment Profiles
  • Lesson 7   | Senior Profiles
  • Lesson 8   | Investor Profiles
  • Lesson 9   | The Self-Employed
  • Lesson 10 | Principal Residences

 

Use code: 21VDAY

Offer expires February 28, 2021