BLINN SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TO OFFER ADVANCED QUICKBOOKS COURSE

  

The Blinn College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is hosting an advanced QuickBooks course Friday, June 5, to teach small business owners to get the most from their accounting software.

This hands-on workshop will take place from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and is designed for those who have completed the basic course or already have experience using QuickBooks. Topics include customer job lists, estimates and job costing, progress invoices, billing for time and costs, customizing invoices, budgets, multiple sales tax items, inventory adjustments and memorized transactions.

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 ProAdvisor.

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.

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

To learn about upcoming training opportunities or to discover how the Blinn SBDC can help your small business, call 979-830-4137 or visit www.blinn.edu/sbdc.