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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Bookkeeping Basics by Intuit

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About the Course

This is the first course in a series of four that will give you the skills needed to start your career in bookkeeping. If you have a passion for helping clients solve problems, this course is for you. In this course, you will be introduced to the role of a bookkeeper and learn what bookkeeping professionals do every day. You will dive into the accounting concepts and terms that will provide the foundation for the next three courses. You will learn how to work your way through the accounting cycle and be able to read and produce key financial statements. By the end of this course, you will be able to: -Define accounting and the concepts of accounting measurement -Explain the role of a bookkeeper and common bookkeeping tasks and responsibilities -Summarize the double entry accounting method -Explain the ethical and social responsibilities of bookkeepers in ensuring the integrity of financial information. No previous bookkeeping or accounting experience required....

Top reviews

KG

Jul 21, 2022

T​his course was well put together. I used to feel so intimidated by finances. The interactive videos and practice exercises do a fantastic job of explaining concepts learned throughout this course.

CH

Nov 29, 2022

Wow! I was really impressed with the videos and information that was presented in this course. I learned alot and I have been doing bookkeeping for awhile. It was a great refresher course for me.

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By Kelly A

Oct 12, 2023

Works with my schedule

By Jayne F R

Mar 8, 2022

It's a good beginning.

By Gleidis M

Jun 17, 2022

I love the course!!!

By julian g

Jun 19, 2022

Intro to Accounting

By Joaquin O

Feb 14, 2023

Good basics class.

By Valery P

Jul 11, 2024

very informative

By Charlsgodwin C T

Feb 25, 2022

Very easy course

By Camberly A

Mar 26, 2023

Really helpful!

By Kenroy B

Jan 26, 2023

Great teaching!

By Usama K

Sep 9, 2022

very satisfied

By Bilal S

May 12, 2022

Refresher Great

By Judy s

Feb 4, 2025

More practice.

By Hamza K

Mar 9, 2024

VERY help full

By Noorul H

Oct 31, 2023

Amazing course

By Tope A

Oct 16, 2024

Informational

By LAURA M

Apr 6, 2022

iNFORMATIONAL

By Florida A

May 24, 2022

Very Good

By Donald C G

Apr 26, 2024

Awesome!

By Dulmi R

Jan 13, 2025

good

By Deleted A

Jan 11, 2023

nice

By Moses I D

Nov 16, 2023

grt

By Sheena O

Jul 9, 2022

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Dec 13, 2021

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By TERESA L

Jun 30, 2023

The 'Teacher' does not do a good job in explaining things - definitions, examples, concepts. Things are only explained in one sentence usually or only given 1 example, and expects the 'student' to understand fully. This is supposed to be a beginners course yet it is very difficult for those without prior knowledge nor experience to understand since everything is only lightly grazed over.

Take the final exam at the end of the course for example - the student is taught & shown how Quickbooks will automate everything and run reports and organize the categories via its system. Even in the real case studies by the real bookkeepers in the videos they were using Quickbooks. Yet in the exam, the student is expected to do this manually all by themselves via a manual Excel sheet, to know the behind-the-scenes of the workings of Quickbooks already. This is for a beginner or those without accounting knowledge? The instructions on the exam and excel file provided was also extremely confusing - not only were the instructions unclear, but FYI even greyed out boxes almost always mean do NOT fill in yet here it is the complete opposite. How confusing! Perhaps another color or indicator would be utmost helpful!

Had I not already have some working experience and knowledge, I would have been so confused and have failed enormously on this exam. The layout and format of the courses is also confusing and not user-friendly. The plug-ins most of the time you do not know whether it's truly done and even cannot repeat nor go backwards because it's a plug-in. There's no progress bar either. There's a Next button as well as a Continue button AND a Mark as Completed button. Which button is the student supposed to press?? And turns out, they do not all mean the same thing either... So confusing! There is plenty of room for improvement for this class, and I hope it is done before more 'students' take this course so as not to waste anyone's time and money and energy.

By Deleted A

Oct 2, 2021

If you're new to bookkeeping, this is a good course to start with, and I can see why the Intuit people would try to revolve it around a fictional TV show. But I do have some bones to pick with it.

For starters, despite all the talk about QuickBooks Online being the software used in the course, you don't actually get to use a simulation of it hands-on...in other words, the interactive segments are a bit shallow. Also, this would have been better presented with an actual accounting professional using a whiteboard: If you're not good at pencil and paper notes like I am, you're going to find some key concepts in the first two lessons go right over your head because you can't capture notes when you need them the most. Finally, the final project isn't rigorous enough: I blasted through it in a lot less time than the 1 hour suggested space.

This isn't a bad course, but if you want a firm grip on accounting basics, I would recommend one of the REAL accounting courses on the Coursera platform over this one.