The Intuit Education Program offers teachers and students the opportunity to learn and use QuickBooks in the classroom. QuickBooks is a business software solution that makes up over 95% of accounting software sales at retail locations. The teacher’s resources are a collection of tools to aid in teaching students, including an instructor’s guide, lesson reviews, classroom handouts, sample files, power point presentations, and sample downloads.
In my high school observations, the accounting classes are teaching students how to use Microsoft Excel in classroom activities. Excel is a great software program that must continue to be taught, but there are multiple software packages that businesses use. Training on business software for employees is typically offered by employers, and Excel is a foundation of that training. I suggest that QuickBooks can be a great addition to a business class. Many of the students who continue into business or accounting will be exposed to QuickBooks in their own workplace or their client’s workplace. Having experience or being certified in QuickBooks offers an advantage in the competitive job market, "Employers seek employees who have demonstrated proficiency in Quickbooks".
As a business teacher, I am excited about creating a classroom environment that will help teach and prepare students. Students can use QuickBooks to run their own company and learn the daily activities they will experience in business. Using QuickBooks in the classroom teaches students how to maintain their own customer databases, create invoices, pay vendors, manage payroll, create financial statements, create reports, and more. The great opportunity in teaching is getting students excited to learn. Offering a real world experience in the classroom through QuickBooks can do just that.
Quickbooks sounds like a great tool for the business classroom. Its potential for use in the real business world makes a great point for emphasizing applicability of what students are learning transferring to the real world. This would be a program that a student would truly benefit from learning if they are going to work in an actual office environment.
ReplyDeleteI agree quickbooks sounds like something that would really work in a business classroom. Business is one area that technology can really work. Majority of people in one way or a another work will work in a office type enviroment so this is another way of preparing them for life after school
ReplyDeleteThanks. I really believe that business classes can do a better job of preparing students for college and careers. I think that business concepts are more exciting when students can see how and why what they are learning relates to how they will use them in work and life.
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