This workshop is meant to demonstrate how an accounting program can help you in the financial management of your business. This session will also provide some insight into key features you may wish to include in your search for an accounting software program and whether that software or any package is right for your business. There are many accounting software programs for small business. This program will cover the generic applications in common to virtually all accounting software, including desk top and on line versions and is not a class on how to start up or use specific accounting software. This session will cover aspects of general navigation in accounting software, chart of account selection, input of operating transactions as well as generation of periodic financial reports. This session is not interactive but will use Intuit’s windows based version of QuickBooks for demonstration purposes
Instructor Bio:
Cornelius L. Mhley, CPA – SCORE DC Mentor
Cornelius Mhley is a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland and Pennsylvania with 35 years of public accounting experience and 5 years of corporate accounting. Owned and operated his own public accounting practice in Rockville for 25 years and merged that practice with a larger public accounting firm in Rockville, Santos Postal & Company P.C. Cornel is currently retired and actively involved as a Score (Service Corps of Retired Executives) mentor in Rockville, Maryland.
Cornel has extensive tax compliance experience with individual, corporate and estate taxation and well versed in accounting principles and concepts for profit and non- profit organizations. He is also a frequent speaker to groups on financial subjects.
Mr. Mhley graduated from Villanova University and Robert Morris College and is a member of the American and Maryland Institutes of Certified Public Accountants as well as with the Association of Practicing CPA’s.
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Sue McLaughlin
Sue McLaughlin is the founder and principal of McLaughlin Bookkeeping Services LLC. Her mission is to offer small-business clients a fair price for bookkeeping services while delivering excellent customer service.
By focusing on daily transactions and operations, Sue helps clients maintain complete and accurate financial records their CPAs can rely upon for tax preparation and strategic planning. In 2010, Sue founded MBS Bookkeeping Seminars to meet a critical need – educating business owners about their companies’ financials and showing them how to leverage accounting software to better manage their businesses.
Previously, Sue spent eight years as a business manager for a financial services company. In this position she operated as the primary financial officer and oversaw a $2.1 million budget. Sue is also a counselor with the Alexandria (VA) Small Business Development Center and also volunteered for many years at the Fairfax County Community Business Partnership and Women’s Business enter as an instructor teaching basic accounting principles for business owners and as a QuickBooks Instructor. During this time, she taught over 600 students. She continues to provide one-on-one training in addition to her work as a counselor. Sue is both a Certified QuickBooks Proadvisor and a Certified QuickBooks Online Proadvisor. Additionally, she is experienced with PCLaw (accounting software designed for law firms) and has worked with several version of Mac accounting software. Before entering the financial world, Sue was a classically trained musician. She was a performer and owned a music studio for over 25 years.