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Professional Bookkeeping with QuickBooks ProAdivsor Certification Exam Preparation focuses on understanding accounting through a mastery of QuickBooks software. Students set up and maintain a QuickBooks accounting records system by recording the transactions necessary to operate a service and merchandising business.

This course covers the areas of cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll transactions, budgets, completing the accounting cycle, and being prepared to take the QuickBooks Certified User Exam. Students learn how to create these transactions on a computer and how to understand and interpret the resulting financial reports.

Students need to have a computer with Windows 10. Use Google Chrome as the browser, and have the Microsoft Office Package on their computers. 

Course Format
Take this course from the comfort of your home or office! This course is offered remotely with scheduled (live) Zoom sessions.  

As companies prepare for and experience success, a solid management team is imperative. This training provides both new and seasoned managers and supervisors with the expertise needed to lead today’s workforce by offering a foundation of essential skills, the support to apply what has been learned, and closes with a focus on how to sustain best practices.

Participants will develop the skills required to motivate employees, delegate responsibility, solve problems, resolve conflict and improve performance. By understanding how to use tools and strategies to positively influence and direct staff, managers can inspire and guide their teams in creating an increasingly positive and productive work environment throughout all departments.

1. Performance Management as a Retention Strategy
2. Setting Goals and Managing Results
3. Developing Empowered Teams for Managers
4. Negotiation and Conflict Management

Who Should Attend
New and seasoned managers and supervisors. 

Course Format
Take this course from the comfort of your home or office! This course is offered remotely with scheduled (live) Zoom sessions. 

Attention Employers: This Training is Eligible for Reimbursement!
Click here for eligibility and application process information. Or join us for an upcoming information session. Click here for the schedule and to register for a session. 

QuickBooks Online contains all the features and tools that a small business or contractor would need to keep track of vendors, customers, and financial accounts.

The purpose of this course is to teach you how to successfully navigate and use QuickBooks Online as your business' accounting software. However, it's also useful for those who have used previous desktop versions of QuickBooks and want to learn about Quickbooks Online. 

No books will be required. Students interested can download the free trial version of QuickBooks Online for this course:  https://intuit.me/3pYjyGb 

Who Should AttendThis course was designed for the beginning or intermediate user of QuickBooks. 

Course Format:
Take this course from the comfort of your home or office! This course is offered remotely with scheduled (live) Zoom sessions. 

Attention Employers: This Training is Eligible for Reimbursement! Click here for eligibility and application process information. Or join us for an upcoming information session. Click here for the schedule and to register for a session. 

This six session course introduces the student to the basic methodologies of family history and genealogical research. Included are the use of primary versus secondary sources, standards of evidence, systematic record-keeping, production of useful charts, techniques for gathering personal family data from a variety of sources, census records, land and probate records, DNA information, immigration and naturalization records, and assembling a history of one individual using genealogical methodology. Students will carry out independent reading, in-class exercises, and homework assignments which will be individually evaluated by the instructor.

Course Objectives

1. Write effective letters of inquiry for collecting family history data.
2. Plan, carry out, and analyze a personal interview to collect family history information.
3. Use effectively a variety of legal source records to construct a family history.
4. Collect relevant data from sources such as church records, civic vital records, and newspapers and then evaluate those data in terms of their credibility.
5. Properly cite sources.
6. Develop and carry out a research plan.Organize research findings in a narrative about a specific ancestor.
7. Develop a plan for continued research on family history after the completion of the course.

Course Requirements

• Participation in all sessions of the course
• Completion of weekly assignments and submission to the instructor on the schedule specified.
• Completion of a final project of a narrative report on one ancestor, detailing her/his life events, relationship to the family, local historical events occurring during her/his lifetime, and world events of which she/he may well have been aware during the lifetime.
• The final project is due two weeks following the final scheduled (6th) session of the course.

Course Format
Take this course from the comfort of your home or office! This course is offered remotely with scheduled (live) Zoom sessions. 

About the Instructor
David S. Martin, Ph.D., is Professor/Dean Emeritus from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC where he has taught genealogy courses in the Honors Program. Since retirement, he has taught 23 different courses in genealogy for beginners and experienced genealogists in southeastern Massachusetts, both in-person and online.

If you are an entrepreneur thinking about opening your own business, or are already a small business owner and need help developing a business plan, then this program is for you!

A good business plan helps you to structure, run and grow your business. It is essential for all sized companies to have a business plan and to update that plan every year. It also takes in to consideration your changing financial needs: Investors and banks will ask to see your business plan when you borrow money, and commercial landlords will ask for your business plan when you apply to rent space. By participating in this program will learn the steps you will need to take in order to write a plan that will help you manage and maintain a healthy business.

Course Format 
This program is offered in person. 

Project Management is more about managing expectations than dates.  Effectively managing multiple projects, resources, and budgets is critical in today's global business environment.  This Project Management course will dive into the roles and responsibilities of the project manager and examine project management in theory as well as in practice.  The course offers a practical approach to managing projects, without requiring any previous project management experience.  We will focus on organizing, planning, and controlling the deliverables of the project using good practices.

Students will participate in structured workshops where simulated project plans are designed and implemented. At the end of the course, students will understand why project management requires a high degree of professionalism and attention to detail, and how to achieve that end in future projects.

We will examine project management roles, the project lifecycle, and various techniques of work planning, control, and evaluation to achieve project objectives using system tools and project management philosophies.

Topics:

1. What makes a good project?
2. Documentation of a project
3. Common pitfalls
4. Ownership versus governance of the project
5. Project communication
6. What to do when things go wrong
7. What to do when things go right

Course Format:
Take this course from the comfort of your home or office! This course is offered remotely with scheduled (live) Zoom sessions. 

Attention Employers: This Training is Eligible for Reimbursement! 
Click here for eligibility and application process information. Or join us for an upcoming information session. Click here for the schedule and to register for a session.  

Register for all three, Cape Cod Horticulture 101: The Science of Gardening on Cape Cod sessions at a savings!

Each 4-part session will provide three weekly, 2-hour lectures, and a 2-hour field trip relating to the session’s topics.  Lectures will be held in person on Mondays, from 5-7pm, and field trips on Saturdays, from 9-11am.

Monthly topics include:
Session 1: 10/9, 10/16, 10/23 & 10/28
Week 1 & 2: Pruning hydrangeas, roses, and all other plants
Week 3: The difference in plants – how to tell them apart and Saturday field trip

Session 2: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 & 11/18
Week 1 & 2: All that is alive above and below the surface and transplanting
Week 3: Do you know what is attacking the plant world and Saturday field trip

Session 3: 11/27, 12/4, 12/8 & 12/16
Week 1: What is the good the bad and the ugly in the plant world
Week 2 & 3: What are the different types of gardens and their purpose in designs and Saturday field trip

Register for the full series, or choose to enroll in one or more of the individual sessions. To register for individual sessions, please click here.

Do you have a green thumb or always wished you had one? Whether developing your own business, working in the industry or even in your own back yard, Horticulturist, Diane Guidebeck, will help move you from the practice of growing to the science of growing. Learn how to successfully raise, care for, and manage your plants in today’s ever-changing environment, including soil condition, varying water levels, temperature changes and seasonal issues within our region, and their effects they have on your trees, bushes, and gardens.

With 4Cs, Cape Cod Horticulture 101 Program, you will learn to understand things like soil composition, how to incorporate plants into our native habitat, types of planting, when to prune & transplant, insects & disease and more.

Each 4-part session will provide three weekly, 2-hour lectures, and a 2-hour field trip relating to the session’s topics.  Lectures will be held in person on Mondays, from 5-7pm, and field trips on Saturdays, from 9-11am.

Monthly topics include:

Session 1: 10/9, 10/16, 10/23 & 10/28
Week 1 & 2: Pruning hydrangeas, roses, and all other plants
Week 3: The difference in plants – how to tell them apart and Saturday field trip

Session 2: 10/30, 11/6, 11/13 & 11/18
Week 1 & 2: All that is alive above and below the surface and transplanting
Week 3: Do you know what is attacking the plant world and Saturday field trip

Session 3: 11/27, 12/4, 12/8 & 12/16
Week 1: What is the good the bad and the ugly in the plant world
Week 2 & 3: What are the different types of gardens and their purpose in designs and Saturday field trip

How to enroll:
Choose to enroll in one or more individual, 4-session program, or sign up for the series at a special package price! Special package pricing can be found here: Horticulture Series