Food to Live For—a QBO Practice Set
/Business teachers appear extremely interested in the emergence of cloud-based accounting software. An October workshop I conducted at the BCBEA annual conference was packed—and they didn’t just come to sample the free banana bread and lemon loaf I distributed!
An attendee’s testimony highlighted a common, motivating experience of this group of educators: “I waited the entire 2014-2015 school year for our I.T. staff to install accounting software in our computer lab.”
Cloud-based accounting software removes such shackles. Cloud software is certainly “trending” in small business, and it offers educators a great solution to aging computer equipment and slow I.T. service. Our students simply need access to a decent web browser to experience slick, contemporary, and easily-mastered accounting software.
Two providers teachers are familiar with are Intuit (QuickBooks Online®) and Sage (Sage One®). This post is about QuickBooks Online (QBO). In a future post, I hope to give an update about Sage One.
For QBO, I have written a 38-transaction practice set called Food to Live For. It comes complete with a Student and Teacher’s Manual. It is designed to be a “give-’n’-go” project—you can “give” it to students in Chapter 7 of Accounting 1, and they can “go” do it without much intervention on your part.
Intuit will give you free access to Food To Live For, other support materials, and a complimentary QBO account when you enrol in Intuit’s Education Program at the website below. (Student accounts are also complimentary.)
I think you are going to be very pleased with this new wave of accounting software.