Become a Certified Accounting Paraprofessional

Certified Accounting Paraprofessional (CAP) 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 Small Business Accountants.

Consortia provides bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and tax services for small 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 Small Business Accountants,
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.

Prerequisites

You must complete the Certified Public Bookkeeper Program before starting this Program.

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

Accounting Principles course or course equivalent

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

To opt out of the course, email your course transcript to info@nacpb.org.

Opting out of the course reduces the CAP Program monthly payment one month.

Certification Objective

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

Certification

‍Accounting Certification‍

Training Objective

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

Training

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.

Accounting Experience (three months)

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.

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.