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Self-Study

Fixing Your Chart of Accounts

Valid for one year from purchase date
Self-study - On-Demand
1.5 CPE (1.5 technical)

Course code: 25SX-0049
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A well-organized chart of accounts supports robust responsibility reporting, makes it easy to answer "what if?" questions and helps eliminate data entry errors. However, many organizations cling to the primitive practices of a half-century ago that impose barriers to developing budgets, holding people accountable, gathering useful data and keeping errors from creeping into their financial statements.

Best practices today look little like the examples you may have seen in business school. If you sense that your general ledger could do far more, this session will show you how to fix your problems

Major subjects

  • Current Chart of Accounts Best Practices
  • Why developing a chart of accounts begins with studying your organizational chart
  • How to identify your account segments
  • Determining the order of your account segments
  • Best practices for numbering account bases
  • How to avoid memorization
  • Fixing Your Current Chart of Accounts
  • How big company and small company software differs
  • Two key approaches for preserving your historical data
  • What to know when making major chart of accounts changes

Learning objectives

  • Understand current chart of accounts best practices and how to fix the current mess that you may have

Who should take this program?

  • Anyone with responsibility for a General Ledger System

Pricing

Standard Member Fee $43.50
checkmark Standard Nonmember Fee $43.50
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Online orders are not available due to server maintenance. Please call 952-831-2707 between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Central to order.

If your organization is exempt from sales tax, call us at 952-831-2707 to complete your purchase.

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More program information

Area
of study
Accounting & audit
Field(s)
of study
Accounting - Technical (1.5)
Level Intermediate
Format Self-study - On-Demand
Sponsor CPA Crossings, LLC
NASBA ID#: 108744
Prerequisites Prereq. Some real work experience working with general ledger systems
Advance
prep
None

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