Four courses bring businesses up to speed with QuickBooks® accounting July 17, 2003
	KOKOMO, Ind.—IU Kokomo’s Division of Continuing Studies will offer beginning and advanced courses in QuickBooks®, a versatile financial management software for small business needs. QuickBooks® for Business I, an accelerated one-day course, covers QuickBooks® basic accounting features, as well as small business accounting principles. Creating a mock company, students will practice entering sales, setting up accounts receivable, recording purchases, paying bills and managing inventory. To enroll, students must have prior business experience along with basic computer knowledge. The class meets Tuesday, August 19, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. QuickBooks® for Business II builds on QuickBooks® for Business I, focusing on time-tracking activities and payroll and sales taxes. Special attention is given to analyzing a company’s financial performance using the reports in QuickBooks®. Students must have completed QuickBooks® for Business I or have experience with a PC-based business accounting package. The class meets Thursday, August 21, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. In QuickBooks® Level I, students will learn to manage expenses, analyze cash flow, compile balance sheet information and build a budget. This class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, August 5–14, 5:30–7:30 p.m. QuickBooks® Level II teaches analyzing financial performance using QuickBooks® reports. Students will learn to compute payroll and sales taxes and use estimating and time-tracking program features. Level II students must first complete QuickBooks® Level I or have equivalent experience with a PC-based accounting package. The class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, August 19–28, 5:30–7:30 p.m. The fee for each of the four QuickBooks® courses is $189. For information on any Continuing Studies classes, call (765) 455-9426 or visit http://www.iuk.edu/scs. Additional classes starting in August include: Access® Basics Access® contains tremendous depth and structure to create databases. Learn Access® methodologies as you investigate relational database design and creation. Course topics include primary keys, relational database structure, formats, linking databases, SQL and Object Linking and Embedding. Book required. Mondays and Wednesdays, August 4–13, 9:30–11:30 a.m., OR Mondays and Wednesdays, August 4–13, 7:45–9:45 p.m. Fee: $99 Microsoft Office® Basics Microsoft® has many user-friendly features that can help with presentations, letters, spreadsheets and more. Learn the basics of Word®, Excel® and PowerPoint®. Tuesdays and Thursdays, August 5–14, 9:30–11:30 a.m. Fee: $99 One Stroke Painting This is painting made easy—no artistic talent needed. With this popular folk art painting technique, you blend, highlight, and shade all in one stroke. A properly loaded brush can produce beautiful flowers, birds and butterflies. Saturday, August 9, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Fee: $125, plus a $5–$10 fee payable to the instructor at class to cover paints and painting surface. Photoshop® Elements Enter the world of graphic design with Photoshop® Elements from Adobe®. Gain the skills of a professional graphic artist: color management, layers, filters, masking, optimizing for Web performance and more. No book required. Mondays and Wednesdays, August 11–20, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Fee: $189 PowerPoint® Basics Have you ever needed to create a presentation for work or help your children create presentations for school projects? With this powerful Microsoft® tool, you can modify and customize backgrounds, set up individual styles and learn about outline and slide sorter formats. Mondays and Wednesdays, August 18–27, 9:30–11:30 a.m., OR Mondays and Wednesdays, August 18–27, 7:45–9:45 p.m. Fee: $99 FrontPage® Basics In this class, HTML and FrontPage® Basics are combined to give students a solid background in FrontPage®. See how concepts taught in HTML I and HTML II can be done in a quicker fashion using FrontPage®. Get hands-on experience with FrontPage® themes, style sheets and Java functions. Learn to create a FrontPage® Web site and upload a site to any Web-hosting service. Book required. Mondays and Wednesdays, August 25–September 8, 5:30–7:30 p.m. (No class on Labor Day, Monday, September 1.) Fee: $99 Getting to Know Your Computer If you know absolutely nothing about a computer, then this course is for you. This two-hour class looks at hardware, software, and connecting to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Tuesday, August 26, 10 a.m.-noon, OR Thursday, August 28, 7:45-9:45 p.m. Fee: $25 Return to Current News Releases       Return to Archived News Releases		Media Contact: Anne-Marie Damler OCM (765) 455-9468 adamler@iuk.edu