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brin_bellway) wrote2021-05-27 08:21 pm
brin_bellway) wrote2021-05-27 08:21 pm
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The QuickBooks official training course has a very deeply ingrained assumption that you're the owner of an accounting firm and are looking to have your firm start using QuickBooks with its clients.
(No, it's not *just* because that link is to the version of QuickBooks aimed at accounting firms and not the general one. The general one doesn't *have* a training course, just a few tutorial videos on individual topics. This is the closest there is.
Besides, that still doesn't explain why you're assumed to be the owner and not an employee.)
This...seems like it would be much less common than my use-case of "new graduate hoping that having some QuickBooks training under her belt will help her bootstrap into her first career-field job". Do people *often* end up *running accounting firms* while being entirely ignorant of how to use QuickBooks?
Well, I'm sure there's *some* useful information buried in here even as someone who doesn't much like the thought of *ever* running a firm herself. And I'll be able to truthfully *say* that I'm officially QuickBooks trained, which in practice is probably the most valuable thing the course gives you.
(No, it's not *just* because that link is to the version of QuickBooks aimed at accounting firms and not the general one. The general one doesn't *have* a training course, just a few tutorial videos on individual topics. This is the closest there is.
Besides, that still doesn't explain why you're assumed to be the owner and not an employee.)
This...seems like it would be much less common than my use-case of "new graduate hoping that having some QuickBooks training under her belt will help her bootstrap into her first career-field job". Do people *often* end up *running accounting firms* while being entirely ignorant of how to use QuickBooks?
Well, I'm sure there's *some* useful information buried in here even as someone who doesn't much like the thought of *ever* running a firm herself. And I'll be able to truthfully *say* that I'm officially QuickBooks trained, which in practice is probably the most valuable thing the course gives you.
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Yeah, there's that. Many accounting bosses are not bosses *of firms* (a lot of companies have in-house accounting staff), but OTOH a single QuickBooks-using firm can convince many clients to sign up for QuickBooks.
That explains not just the training programs offered but the *pricing*. The software is given away to the accounting firms themselves, with the cost being merely per *client*: furthermore, client companies get fairly large discounts on said cost if they buy their subscription through an accounting firm.
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I'm taking the QuickBooks Online course because, in the age of remote office work, that seems more likely to come up than the desktop version, and while I *get* why she's doing it it's still disturbing how hard the lecturer tries to spin "living, breathing software" and "stumbling across recently-added features" as a good thing. (My response was to look at how easy it is to back up QBO files, and apparently the main way of doing so is to hire a third party for approximately as much as the QBO subscription itself costs. $20/month probably feels reasonable to someone accustomed to operating at a company scale, I guess.)
(She also threw in an anecdote at one point about how one of the great things about the mobile app is that it allowed her to handle a client's request while she was *too sick to easily make it over to her desktop*, which is absolutely fucking horrifying and further cements my desire to never run a firm and *especially* not a one-person operation. (Although I was already well aware that business ownership is not for me, especially after observing that Meta-Boss is effectively on-call at all times.))