This course covers what everything business people and managers need to know about accounting and finance. It is directed toward the businessperson who must have financial and accounting knowledge but has not had formal training in finance or accounting-perhaps a newly promoted middle manager or a marketing manager of a small company who must know some basic finance concepts. The entrepreneur or sole proprietor also needs this knowledge; he or she may have brilliant product ideas, but not the slightest idea about financing. The goal of the course is to provide a working knowledge of the fundamentals of finance and accounting that can be applied, regardless of the firm size, in the real world. It gives nonfinancial managers the understanding they need to function effectively with their colleagues in finance.

This course covers the more basic aspects of QuickBooks Pro 2010, teaching the student how to

• Set up a QuickBooks company file
• Work with preferences, items, lists, and forms
• Work with the Fixed Asset Item List and the Loan Manager
• Create purchase orders, accounts payable transactions, and automated and manual checks
• Create customer invoices, and receive payments and make deposits
• Process payroll transactions and create payroll checks
• Modify forms to create a customized appearance
• Create journal entries and understand when they are needed
• Reconcile bank accounts
• Create, modify, and export reports
• Maintain QuickBooks company data files

The course entitled Healthcare Reform: Pre-Existing Conditions, Benefit Limits, Rescission & Patient Protection Rules provides important information for insurance agents and other advisers who are counseling clients on certain requirements imposed on group health plans and individual insurance coverage by the Act and Regulations. The course begins with a discussion of “grandfathered” health plans, their definition and the implications of grandfathered status for the timing and applicability of the Act’s provisions.

The requirements of the Act and Regulations addressed in this course are those relating to ensuring patient protections—specifically, protections related to their ability to choose healthcare professionals and the provision of emergency services—and the ability of health plans to:

• Exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions;
• Impose annual and lifetime benefit limits for essential health benefits; and
• Rescind health coverage.