Certified Accounting Paraprofessional Program

Become one of America's most qualified accounting paraprofessionals. Become a licensed Certified Accounting Paraprofessional and place CAP behind your name.

Learn and apply best practice accounting from Consortia Accounting Business Advisors.

Consortia provides white label accounting services for accounting businesses.

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

Benefits

Completion of the Accounting Paraprofessional Development Program provides the following opportunities:

1. Accounting career with Consortia Accounting Business Advisors,
2. Accounting position with an accounting business,
3. Accounting position with a small business, or
4. Accounting position with a corporation.

What Do Employers and Clients Want?

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

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

Objectives

1. Perform accounting 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 accounting knowledge and understanding.

Course

1. Accounting Fundamentals or course equivalent‍
2. Accounting Principles or course equivalent
3. ‍QuickBooks Online Fundamentals or course equivalent
4. ‍Payroll Fundamentals or course equivalent (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program¹)

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

To opt out of a course, email your course transcript to info@certifiedpublicbookkeeper.org.

Each course you opt out of reduces the CAP Program monthly payments by one month.

Certification Objective

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

Certification

1. Bookkeeping Certification
2. Accounting Certification
3. QuickBooks Online Certification
4. Payroll Certification (may be completed during bookkeeping experience segment of the program¹)

Training Objective

Learn best practice accounting and QuickBooks Online Accountant processes, procedures, and steps.

Training

1. ‍‍Bookkeeping with QuickBooks Online
2. ‍Payroll with QuickBooks Online Payroll
3. ‍Accounting with QuickBooks Online Accountant

Experience Objective

Apply best practice accounting and QuickBooks Online Accountant processes, procedures, and steps.

Experience

You perform accounting under the direction and supervision of a licensed Certified Accounting Paraprofessional or CAP.

Bookkeeping Experience (nine months)
Payroll Experience (six months¹)
Accounting Experience (three months)

Certified Accounting Paraprofessional (CAP) License Objective

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

CAP License

Become a licensed Certified Accounting Paraprofessional or CAP.

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

Support

You are assigned support personnel to assist you with any course, certification, training, experience, or licensing questions.