Become a Certified Public Bookkeeper

Certified Public Bookkeeper (CPB) Program

Become one of America's most qualified bookkeepers. Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper and place CPB behind your name.

Learn and apply best practice bookkeeping from Consortia Small Business Advisors.

Consortia provides bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and tax services for small businesses.

Consortia is a registered Postsecondary Proprietary School providing post-secondary education for educational, vocational, or professional objectives.

Benefits

Completion of the Certified Public Bookkeeper Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Bookkeeping career with Consortia Small Business Advisors,
2. Bookkeeping position with a bookkeeping business,
3. Bookkeeping position with a small business, or
4. Bookkeeping (clerk) position with a corporation.

What Do Employers and Clients Want?

Employers and clients want bookkeepers with the following (listed in order of importance):

1. Bookkeeping knowledge, accreditation, experience, and ethics,
2. Personality conducive to their company culture, and
3. Appearance conducive to their company culture.

Objectives

1. Perform bookkeeping accurately and productively.
2. Prepare timely, relevant, and reliable financial information.
3. Provide daily, weekly, monthly, and annual business performance reports.

Steps

1. Education
2. Certification
3. Training
4. Experience
5. License
6. Support

Education Objective

Develop bookkeeping knowledge and understanding.

Courses

Accounting Fundamentals or course equivalent

QuickBooks Online Fundamentals or course equivalent

Payroll Fundamentals or course equivalent

You may opt out of a course. To opt out of the course, you must have completed and passed an equivalent higher education course.

To opt out of the course, email your course transcript to info@nacpb.org.

Opting out of a course reduces the CPB Program monthly payment one month.

Certification Objective

Communicate and assure employers or clients of your bookkeeping knowledge and understanding.

Certification

Bookkeeping Certification

QuickBooks Online Certification

Payroll Certification

Training Objective

Learn best practice bookkeeping and QuickBooks Online processes, procedures, and steps.

Training

Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online

Experience Objective

Apply best practice bookkeeping and QuickBooks Online processes, procedures, and steps.

Experience

You perform bookkeeping under the direction and supervision of a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper.

Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online (three months)

CPB License Objective

Place CPB behind your name and communicate your bookkeeping knowledge, skill, experience, and ethics to employers or clients.

CPB License

Become a licensed Certified Public Bookkeeper.

This program completes the CPB license education, certification (examination), and experience requirements.

Job Assistance

We provide job placement training and programs that connect our graduates with bookkeeping employers.