Certified QuickBooks Expert Program

Become a Certified QuickBooks Expert

Certified QuickBooks Experts are America's most qualified QuickBooks users.

No QuickBooks user receives the quality of education, training, certification, and experience as a Certified QuickBooks Expert.

Become a licensed Certified QuickBooks Expert and place CQE behind your name.

Learn and apply best practice QuickBooks bookkeeping, accounting, payroll, and analysis from Consortia Small Business Accountants.

Benefits

Completion of the Certified QuickBooks Expert Program qualifies you for the following job opportunities:

1. Consortia Small Business Accountants ,
2. Small businesses,
3. Local bookkeeping, accounting, and tax firms, and
4. Intuit QuickBooks Live (Bookkeeping and Payroll).

Overview

The program is a self-paced, self-study program.

Please follow the Program as outlined.

Each step is a prerequisite to the next step.

Free to Consortia Accounting Community Subscribers

Our Consortia Accounting Community social media platform was designed for bookkeeping, accounting, and tax students, job candidates, employees, and business owners to learn, get a job, improve skill, or build a business.

The Community has a free plan and a $200 paid plan.

The free plan is for those who want to network with their peers.

The paid plan includes access to the Certified QuickBooks Expert (CQE) hands-on training, courses, certifications, and license.

The paid plan also includes a 20% discount on Consortia Accounting School courses, certification exams, training, and experience.

To join the community, go to accounting.community.

Objectives

1. Learn the basics of bookkeeping, payroll, accounting, and analysis.
2. Learn QuickBooks products and services.
3. Learn QuickBooks plans and their unique features.
4. Learn how small businesses, local accounting firms, and Intuit benefit from QuickBooks.
5. Start a bookkeeping, accounting, or advisory business using Intuit QuickBooks all-in-one platform with Intuit AI.

Prerequisites

Although there are no prerequisites for the CQE license, you may want to consider our CPB, CAP, or CAA Program(s) depending on what you plan to do.

Completion of our QuickBooks Fundamentals course and QuickBooks Certification exam will give you an advantage when taking the CQE required courses and exams.

‍Steps

1. QuickBooks Foundations Level 1 hands-on training
2. QuickBooks Foundations Level 2 hands-on training
3. QuickBooks Foundations Level 3 hands-on training
4. QuickBooks Certification course
5. QuickBooks Certification exam
6. QuickBooks Products training
7. QuickBooks Sales training
8. People Skills training
9. QuickBooks Workforce (Payroll) Certification course
10. QuickBooks Workforce Certification exam
11. QuickBooks Certification Level 1 course
12. QuickBooks Certification Level 1 exam
13. QuickBooks Certification Level 2 course
14. QuickBooks Certification Level 2 exam
15. Client Advisory Services Certification training
16. Client Advisory Services exam

Training

1. QuickBooks Foundations Level 1
2. QuickBooks Foundations Level 2
3. QuickBooks Foundations Level 3
4. QuickBooks Products
5. QuickBooks Sales
6. People Skills
7. Client Advisory Services Certification

Courses

1. QuickBoooks Certification
2. QuickBooks Workforce (Payroll) Certification
3. QuickBooks Certification Level 1
4. QuickBoooks Certification Level 2

Certifications

1. QuickBooks Certification
2. QuickBooks Workforce (Payroll) Certification
3. QuickBooks Level 1 Certification
4. QuickBooks Level 2 Certification
5. Client Advisory Services Certification

CQE License

Place CQE behind your name and communicate your QuickBooks expertise.

The CQE license communicates you are a QuickBooks expert.

87% of small businesses use QuickBooks.

89% of local bookkeeping, accounting, and tax firms provide QuickBooks services.

Intuit hires QuickBooks "Experts" to support QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping clients.

How Do I Begin?

You can begin at anytime.

1. Subscribe to Consortia Accounting Community and
2. Begin QuickBooks Foundations Level 1 hands-on training.