Quickbooks training in Bangalore for $499 with certification

Here is an exciting offer to learn QuickBooks Pro 2008/2009 in 5 days from “Horse’s Mouth” and get certified as QuickBooks users. Charges: $499.00 (No other cost involved)

COURSE DETAILS

The primary goal of this course is to train you in the aspects of accounting and bookkeeping using QuickBooks Software. You will acquire the practical knowledge and skills to enable you to set up and maintain a set of books for a company using QuickBooks software and US based accounting methodology.

COURSE METHODOLOGY
Approximately 2-4 hours of lecturing and discussion daily.
1-2 hours on relevant exercises on each chapter, followed by a quick test on the topic covered. Reasoning for selection of the best answer will be discussed daily.
The final web based exam will be taken by the trainees after the 5 day sessions have been completed. They will have up to 90 days to complete the exam at their leisure and from any web connection. Upon passing the Intuit Certified QuickBooks user exam, participants will receive a certificate from the Intuit Academy. The answers for these questions would also be discussed in the class.

Exam* - Intuit Academy exam will be specific to the user and confidentialDisclaimer: All test questions are a sample, and success on these questions is not indicative of proficiency for passing the Certified User Exam.

Who Should Attend?
• Attendees who intend to work with BPO/KPO in the Finance & Accounting arena, with a minimum of a B.Com, BBM, M.com, MBA, MFM from a qualified Indian University. Working professionals with accounting back-ground, chartered accountants, finance managers etc…

WHAT THE COURSE IS NOT
• A substitute for self-study • An indirect method of self-evaluation before the main exam. • A means of picking up a question bank


COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1

Introduction To US Accounting
• The business World in the US • The Accounting world in the US • Accounting Conventions in the US• The Balance Sheet • The Income Statement • Business Transactions in the US
• Discussion of Best Practices in QuickBooks
• Quiz
Day 2
QuickBooks® Introduction
• Creating a QuickBooks Company File • QuickBooks Chart of Accounts• List, Registers and Forms• Discussion on how and why QuickBooks has special accounts for managing the data file
• Vendor Management • Customer Management • Managing the bank accounts • Discussion of Best Practices
• Quiz

Day 3

QuickBooks Advanced
• Items
• Inventory
• Sales Tax
• Receivable options in QuickBooks
• Class Tracking
• Reimbursed Expenses
• Refunds and Credits
• Credit Cards
• Refunds and Credits
• Online Functions with QuickBooks
• Quiz

Day 4

QuickBooks Advanced Continued

• Payroll in QuickBooks
• Reports Management
• Templates
• Year End for a QuickBooks File
• Best Practices Discussion
• Quiz

Day 5Day 5
QuickBooks Exercise
• Create your own sample Company
• Mock Exam
Course Wrap-up, Participant Feedback and Questions and Answers
DELIVERABLES



40 hours Instructor Led Training
QuickBooks training notes
By: Cosmic It services
Certificate of QB user
From Intuit Academy

INSTRUCTOR PROFILE
Penny Breslin

Ms. Breslin brings over fifteen years of entrepreneurial and business development experience She has trained thousands of business owners in US as how to use QuickBooks and how to deliver outsourced Bookkeeping over the internet. She has conducted this course repeatedly India and the Unites States to an excellent feedback. In addition, she has provided process improvement consulting & trainings in, Unites States, Malaysia, and India. She has conducted numerous public and in-house trainings on QuickBooks, Outsource Management, Workflow, Software Quality and Client Support. Her training feedback has consistently been rated high and has been positively received.
She was formerly working at Xpitax/XCM Solutions she was part of the Software, she developed and implemented an accounting outsourcing team, assisted in the design of the web based workflow solution and implemented client start ups and protocols

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Registration FeesRs. 24,900.00 (Inclusive of service tax) per participant

Course DATES: 10th November to 14th November 2008

Course Timings 09030 to 1800 hrs

Course Venue :

Cosmic IT services Private Ltd. 154,
6th main road, 2nd phase, 2nd stage,
Mahalaxmipuram
Bangalore 560055 India

Course Registrations To register, please email at reg@cosmictechnologies.biz name of the participants and the course location. Alternately, please request for a registration form via email.
More Information Santhosh kumar.k
Cosmic IT services Private Ltd.
154,6th main road, 2nd phase, 2nd stage, Mahalaxmipuram
Bangalore 560055 India
Tel +91-80 23190288 Fax +91-80 28456467Email:
santhoshtmg@cosmictechnologies.bizWeb:www.cosmictechnologies.biz


Registration and payment Terms

- All payments to be made in the favor of “Cosmic IT services PVT. LTD " and posted to:
Cosmic IT services Pvt. Ltd.
154,6th main road, 2nd phase,
2nd stage, Mahalaxmipuram
Bangalore 560055 India

- All registrations are required to be fully paid prior to the start of the course. - Any cancellations received within the last ten calendar days would be liable for 50% of the course fees. - No-shows shall be fully charged.

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US Tax series -5

Business Income –Schedule C

Schedule C

Schedule C is used to report income or loss from a business you operated or a profession you practiced as a sole proprietor.

An activity qualifies as a business if your primary purpose of engaging in the activity is income or profit and you are in the activity with continuity and regularity (i.e. materially participation).

What should be done in case both the taxpayer and spouse have different businesses?
A)They should file separate Sch Cs
Q) What if the tax payer and spouse jointly own a business?
A) They do not file a schedule C even if they don’t have a formal partnership agreement, in that case 1065 would be filed.

Schedule C is divided into 5 parts
- General Information

- Part I Income
- Part II Expenses
- Part III Cost of Good Sold
- Part IV Vehicle Information
- Part V Other Expenses

- Part I Income
- Gross Receipts or Sales.
- Statutory Employees (From W2)

Income reported in the Sch C includes cash, property, and services received from all sources.

- Part II Expenses

- Depreciation
- Travel, Meals & Entertainment Expenses
- Vehicle Expenses
- Other Expenses

To be deductible, a business expense must be both ordinary and necessary.

An ordinary expenses is the one which is common and accepted in the taxpayer’s respective field of business. A necessary expenses is one which is helpful and useful for the trade.

Examples are 1. reasonable allowance for salaries and other compensation, 2. traveling expenses while away from home etc.

Automobile & truck expenses: Expenses incurred on a personal automobile used for business purposes can be deducted. The standard mileage rate for the cost of operating the car is 48 ½ cents a mile for all business miles.

Home Office Expense

Generally, you can deduct business expenses that apply to a part of your home only if that part is exclusively used on a regular basis:
-As your principal place of business for any of your trades or businesses,
-As a place of business used by your patients, clients, or customers to meet or deal with you in the normal course of your trade or business, or
- In connection with your trade or business if it is a separate structure that is not attached to your home.

Exceptions to this rule apply to space used on a regular basis for:
- Storage of inventory or product samples, and
- Certain daycare facilities.

Use Form 8829 to figure the allowable expenses for business use of your home on Schedule C (Form 1040) and any carryover to 2007 of amounts not deductible in 2006.Only certain expenses are deductible.and The primary home must be used as a principal place of business.

includes
-Real estate taxes
-Deductible mortgage interest
-Casualty losses
-Rent
-Utilities and services
-Insurance
-Repairs
-Security systems etc.
The business percentage can be determined by the dividing the area used for business by the total area of home.

Expenses are deductible if the part of the home is used to provide day care facility.Must be in a trade or business of providing such facilities.

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BPO to outshine IT outsourcing

New Delhi: IT being in the midst of the ever growing economic turbulence will see its outsourcing straggle as business process outsourcing (BPO) outshines it. "With a CAGR of 43 percent as compared to 25 percent of IT outsourcing the business process outsourcing shall surpass it in 2012," predicts IDC India's Head, Praveen Senger.At the Senior Leader's Forum held by Business Process Industry Association of India (BPIAI), major players and industry experts gave their views about the future of the BPO industry in India and the strategy which should be adopted by the players in these times of financial crisis. However, the Sami Chopra, President, BPIAI said, "But there is no need for the BPO industry to panic. We should cooperate and collaborate amongst ourselves to address the problem. The effect of the crisis would fade away in the next few quarters. We have to look beyond that and formulate strategies for the long term." Since the BPO sector has become an attractive investment option especially the domestic processes as compared to the international part of the business. Moreover, with the quality being the key to sustain the competitive advantage as opposed to cost in the future, India needs to retain the tag of the best service provider rather than that of the cheapest service provider. So, for this Leslie D'Monte, Associate Editor, Business Standard cites the importance of a sound Global Delivery Network for the Indian BPO Industry.

The forum dedicated to the issues relating to the issues of the BPO sector even discussed the rural aspect of BPOs maintaining that they along with catering to a social cause would actually make money for the clients by addressing the huge market opportunity which lies in rural India

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US tax series-4

Rent

Rental Income.

Royalty Income.

Schedule E.

Rent Income:
Rental income is any payment you receive for the use or occupation of the property.
This is usually in the form of cash. However, if the tenant provides certain services, the value of the services is treated as rental income.

Advance Rent:
Any amount received before the period that it covers.
Include it in the rental income irrespective of the period covered or accounting method used.

For Example: You sign a 10 year Lease to rent your property. In the First year you receive $5000 for the first year of lease and $5000 as rent for the last year of the lease. You must include $10,000 in your income in the first year

Security Deposit: Do not include a security deposit on your income if you plan to return it to the tenant at the end of the lease

Expenses paid by tenant:
If your tenant pays any of your expenses then it is treated as rental income.
Payment for canceling the Lease:
If your tenant pays you to cancel the lease then the amount you receive is rent.

Rental Expenses:
You can deduct expenses that are ordinary and necessary expenses for managing, conversing or maintaining the property.

Deductible Expenses are:
Vacant Rental Property: Expenses for managing, conversing or maintaining the vacant property can be deducted.

Depreciation: You can begin to depreciate a rental property once it is ready and available for rent.
Other Expenses:
Advertising.
Cleaning and Maintaining.
Utilities.
Insurance premium.*
Tax preparation fees.*
Taxes*
Travel Expenses.*

Repairs and Improvements:
Repairs:
Repairs keep the property in good operating condition.
For example:
Repainting your house.
Fixing Broken windows.
Fixing Leaks.

Improvements:
Improvement adds value to the property, prolongs it’s useful life or adapts it to new uses.
For example:
Adding a room
Putting up a fence
Putting up a new roof, new plumbing or new wiring.
Improvements must be Capitalized. This capitalized cost can be depreciated as if it were a new property in itself.

Personal Use of Dwelling Unit
If you have any personal use of your dwelling Unit that you rent you must divide your expense between rental use and personal use.
You use a dwelling unit as home if you have used for personal purposes more than the greater of
- 14 days or
- 10% of total days it is rented to others at a fair rental price.

Reporting Expense
If the dwelling unit is
- Used as home and rented out less than 15 days, then do not include any rental income in your income and you can not deduct any rental expenses also.
- Used as home and rented out for more than 15 days, then you can include all your rented income in your income.

•Royalty is the payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property.
•Royalty from copyrights and patents
Royalty from oil, gas or mineral properties

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