Continuing Education > BKA 101 > Industry Orientation & Sea Change Information
DOCUMENTS: See bottom of this page. This course utilizes online resources
PRICE: Free for All to Enjoy and Benefit // $49 to obtain CE Certificate
OBJECTIVES: Learn about the History and Background of the Bookkeeping and Accounting Industry. Learn about sources of confusion that have prevented all from embracing a trade that fully revolves around addition and subtraction. Learn about a totally new type of software offering that stands to provide you with a better way to learn as well as a free solution for life or until you find something that truly fits your needs better. Learn about massive changes in the industry which will dramatically reduce the time, complexity and cost of Bookkeeping and Accounting into perpetuity.
PRICE: Free for All to Enjoy and Benefit // $49 to obtain CE Certificate
OBJECTIVES: Learn about the History and Background of the Bookkeeping and Accounting Industry. Learn about sources of confusion that have prevented all from embracing a trade that fully revolves around addition and subtraction. Learn about a totally new type of software offering that stands to provide you with a better way to learn as well as a free solution for life or until you find something that truly fits your needs better. Learn about massive changes in the industry which will dramatically reduce the time, complexity and cost of Bookkeeping and Accounting into perpetuity.
INTRODUCTION:
ZAP Accounting Software has created a paradigm busting option for those seeking to grow in Bookkeeping and Accounting Prowess. Their introduction of a new, 3rd type of Software to disrupt the "Downloadable Software" and "Software as a Service (Saas) industry is startling.
This new type of "Do It Yourself" Software that is open source, free and more user centric than anything else in the Small Business Software marketplace will change everything about the way societies learn about, teach and do bookkeeping and accounting. It also provides an example of how many small business database applications may change dramatically in coming years. In this introduction we'll use their material to help you understand where we've been, what went wrong, and where we will be going in the future in this arena from an educational and small business perspective.
ZAP Accounting Software has created a paradigm busting option for those seeking to grow in Bookkeeping and Accounting Prowess. Their introduction of a new, 3rd type of Software to disrupt the "Downloadable Software" and "Software as a Service (Saas) industry is startling.
This new type of "Do It Yourself" Software that is open source, free and more user centric than anything else in the Small Business Software marketplace will change everything about the way societies learn about, teach and do bookkeeping and accounting. It also provides an example of how many small business database applications may change dramatically in coming years. In this introduction we'll use their material to help you understand where we've been, what went wrong, and where we will be going in the future in this arena from an educational and small business perspective.
For this CE we are going to use material from the ZAP Accounting Software website for your curriculum.
Documents
Documents
- Quiz for pre and post comprehension evaluation view
- ZAP Website > Home Page -- Just read the first two sections on the home page. It should take under 5 minutes. For our purposes you can stop once you get to the part that says "The rest of this home Page includes the following sections" (or you can read it all). view
- ZAP Website > Education > Start Here Page - Please read that page top to bottom and then reread it if needed. view
- At the bottom you will see an outline for education. If you compare that to our instructions below you will realize we are just going to hand walk you through a portion of that for the remainder of this orientation and sea change introduction.
- ZAP Website > Education > Single Page Visuals : Welcome Slides - PDF | full slide deck at lucid chart
- Please review the "Welcome Slides" . There should be 7 or 8 of them. Please make two passes through those slides. In the first pass you should spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds on each slide. Look at the title in the upper right and any subtitles for the page and then just get a feel for the data in them. In the second pass spend 2-3 minutes reading more into the pages.
NOTE: The PDF requires a download but the images are crisp and easy to navigate. The full slide deck from Lucid Chart is just "okay". You will need to enter presentation mode with play button in upper right if you want to see them that way. You will need to play with zooms and such and sometimes they hide the navigation along the bottom without any clue it's there. - Source URL : https://www.zap-accounting-software.com/single-page-visuals-and-more.html view
- Please review the "Welcome Slides" . There should be 7 or 8 of them. Please make two passes through those slides. In the first pass you should spend no more than 15 to 30 seconds on each slide. Look at the title in the upper right and any subtitles for the page and then just get a feel for the data in them. In the second pass spend 2-3 minutes reading more into the pages.
- ZAP Website > Education > Fun Seekers Corner > FSC 101 view
- Do the first reading pass on that webpage as instructed. You will not be clicking into any of the documents on that page. Just read all the summaries. This should not take more than 10 minutes
- Retake your Quiz to see how your understanding improved
Discussion
The Art of Business consists of Finance, Accounting, Management, Marketing, Management Science and Operations, and IT as well as attention on Business Ethics, Legal and Strategic matters. (FAMMSOIT/bELS). Bookkeeping is a subset of Accounting and it's what is at the core of all Small Businesses and Households, to the surprise of many.
"If Accounting is the language of Business, which it is, then Bookkeeping is the Key to the Alphabet" - ZAP Accounting Software
"80% of your business is just Business, 10% is your ability to sell and 10% is trade or product specific" - the 220 Club
In the United States, the importance of learning bookkeeping and accounting was diminished in grade schools. The curriculum in colleges prior to our offering was unnecessarily complex, specifically geared towards corporate use, and without appropriate digital systems for learning.
In 2021, ZAP Accounting Software published the worlds first open source, double entry accounting system in a spreadsheet format. That solution should have been developed and published by serious Accounting enthusiasts in the 1980s. All the technology was there to do it back then but the creative and clever solution was overlooked for some reason, and it became an afterthought as everyone started chasing riches in the race for cloud software superiority. This new approach to an old problem is paradigm shifting, like Rosetta Stone was for language learning. It changed the way all aspects of Bookkeeping and Accounting can be taught, learned and practiced.
The Curriculum links posted here are identical as those posted at the ASM101 page on the ZAP Accounting Software Website (view). That page is a little more "visual" with a little more introductory text for those who might find that fun.
"If Accounting is the language of Business, which it is, then Bookkeeping is the Key to the Alphabet" - ZAP Accounting Software
"80% of your business is just Business, 10% is your ability to sell and 10% is trade or product specific" - the 220 Club
In the United States, the importance of learning bookkeeping and accounting was diminished in grade schools. The curriculum in colleges prior to our offering was unnecessarily complex, specifically geared towards corporate use, and without appropriate digital systems for learning.
In 2021, ZAP Accounting Software published the worlds first open source, double entry accounting system in a spreadsheet format. That solution should have been developed and published by serious Accounting enthusiasts in the 1980s. All the technology was there to do it back then but the creative and clever solution was overlooked for some reason, and it became an afterthought as everyone started chasing riches in the race for cloud software superiority. This new approach to an old problem is paradigm shifting, like Rosetta Stone was for language learning. It changed the way all aspects of Bookkeeping and Accounting can be taught, learned and practiced.
- The software is free to the global public in an anonymous fashion for life
- With the software template at the core of the educational process to help understand digital data flow transparently, Bookkeeping and Accounting basics can now be learned in a matter of hours versus months or semesters.
- A young practitioner who learns to do their own books with this free, open source solution stands to save over $100,000 in software costs and bookkeeping fees over a 30 year career while gaining confidence, control and privacy over their small business in ways those not trained in the Art will never understand.
- Those who appreciate this offering the most have already suffered Embezzlement issues from employees and others providing bookkeeping and accounting services. If you are fortunate enough to have avoided Embezzlement matters from those around you thus far, take advantage of this education now to help guard against it into perpetuity.
The Curriculum links posted here are identical as those posted at the ASM101 page on the ZAP Accounting Software Website (view). That page is a little more "visual" with a little more introductory text for those who might find that fun.