BLINN SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER HOSTING QUICKBOOKS COURSE

  

The Blinn College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is hosting a basic QuickBooks course Friday, March 27, to teach small business owners how to get the most out of their accounting software.

The course will take place from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Topics include setting up your records, invoices, deposits and checks, accounts payable and receivable, bank and credit card account reconciliation, payroll and running reports.

The workshop will be held at the Bullock Building on the corner of College Avenue and Prairie Lea Street on the Blinn – Brenham campus (map). Registration is $100 per person and is available at www.blinn.edu/sbdc.

The classes will be taught by Julie Gilmer, a CPA and certified QuickBooks instructor.

The Blinn SBDC recently announced that it helped local businesses obtain almost $8 million in loans and generate 91 new jobs during the last fiscal year. The three-person Blinn SBDC staff helped local business owners establish 27 new businesses and served 315 clients in Washington, Colorado and Austin counties, according to the Fiscal Year 2014 report.

Over the past three years, Blinn’s SBDC has helped its clients create 59 new businesses and 233 new jobs, and helped acquire $14.73 million in new capital.

The SBDC at Blinn College is a business consulting and training center that is part of the Texas Gulf Coast Small Business Development Center Network, which serves 32 counties in Southeast Texas. The center provides free one-on-one consulting and low-cost training seminars.

For more information on the QuickBooks course or to learn how the Blinn SBDC can help your small business, contact Carol Doersom at 979-830-4333 or carol.doersom@blinn.edu.

Story Courtesy of Blinn College