Monthly Workshops

The Cuesta College SBDC offers three (3) basic monthly workshops on an ongoing basis; Small Business Planning 101, Marketing Your Product or Service 101 and Access to Capital 101. Anyone thinking about starting a business is encouraged to attend all three (3), they are also great refresher workshops for those who have been in business for a while! Basic monthly workshops offer a general overview of the workshop topic and provide the attendee with handouts relating to the topic. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions and interact with other attendees.

Monthly workshops are held from 5:30 - 7:30 pm and are offered at no charge. Pre-registration is strongly recommended for all workshops. Monthly workshops are held at Cuesta College SBDC. It’s fast and easy to register, just click here to register online. Workshops are subject to cancellation if there is low enrollment.

2008 Fee Based Workshops

QuickBooks 2008

If you are a user of QuickBooks, or brand new to QuickBooks, we encourage you to register and attend the Cuesta College SBDC hands-on QuickBooks training sessions held at the Cuesta College SBDC. The four (4) three-hour training sessions introduce you to QuickBooks 2008—Intuit’s easy-to-use, powerful accounting systems for small businesses.

The four (4) sessions cover 15 modules in total. Each training session is designed to instruct you in how to use many of the features available in QuickBooks Financial Software for Windows. These QuickBooks training sessions are geared toward the small business owner with, at minimum, intermediate computer skills.

Upon completion of the Cuesta College SBDC QuickBooks sessions, you should be able to:

• Create a new QuickBooks company.
• Modify the preset chart of accounts to suit your needs.
• Add information to company lists, or edit information in company lists.
• Open and use registers for any QuickBooks balance sheet accounts.
• Reconcile a QuickBooks checking account.
• Track credit card transactions.
• Invoice customers.
• Create sales orders.
• Generate customer statements.
• Receive payments from customers and make bank deposits.
• Write QuickBooks checks and assign amounts to specific expense accounts.
• Work with asset and liability accounts in QuickBooks.
• Enter bills into QuickBooks accounts payable.
• Pay bills.
• Create and customize QuickBooks reports and graphs.

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