Stop Guessing Your Way Through QuickBooks Online

Build real company files. Learn the full workflow. Get live expert guidance from Alicia Katz Pollock.

In 12 weeks, build real QBO company files from setup to year-end with live guidance from Alicia Katz Pollock. Learn the full QuickBooks Online workflow, ask questions as you go, and walk away with practical knowledge and the confidence to use it.

Live Online Course

QuickBooks Online
Hands-On Training 2026

12-week live blended course

Dates

Aug 4 – Oct 22

2026

Sessions

24 Sessions

Tue & Thu

Time

9 AM – 12 PM PT

12 – 3 PM ET

Starts in

25 days

:

23 hrs

:

14 min

Seats filled 56%

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If you’ve been trying to learn QuickBooks Online from scattered YouTube videos, help articles, and trial and error, you already know the problem.

You can pick up tips here and there, but that doesn’t always help you understand the full workflow. You may know how to click a button, but not always why you’re clicking it, when to use it, or how it affects the books later.

That’s where this course is different.

QuickBooks Online Complete Hands-On Training is based on Alicia Katz Pollock’s book, QuickBooks Online Complete, and turns it into a live, guided, hands-on learning experience. Instead of reading about QuickBooks or watching someone else use it, you’ll work through the process yourself with Alicia showing you what to do, explaining why it matters, and answering questions along the way.

Alicia was named Insightful Accountant’s 2026 Top ProAdvisor Educator, and she has built her career around making QuickBooks Online easier to understand for bookkeepers, accounting professionals, and business owners. In this course, you’re not learning from random internet advice. You’re learning from someone who knows both the software AND how to teach it clearly.

You’ll watch Alicia demonstrate each workflow, then you’ll do it yourself inside your own QBO Plus file with Payroll. You’ll work through real-world bookkeeping scenarios, practice common income and expense workflows, run reports, manage inventory, explore payroll, handle projects and job costing, and complete year-end procedures.

And you won’t be doing it alone.

This is a live, guided course, so you can ask questions as you go. If you miss a session, you’ll have access to the recordings, and you can still get help with your questions afterward.

When you enroll, we’ll send you Alicia’s QuickBooks Online Complete textbook. On the first day of class, you’ll be invited into your own QuickBooks Online Plus file with Payroll. Over the next 12 weeks, you’ll build clean, organized QBO company files while learning how the pieces fit together.

By the end of the course, you won’t just have watched someone use QuickBooks. You’ll have practiced the workflows yourself, built real company files, earned 72 CPE credits, and gained the confidence to work in QuickBooks Online without constantly second-guessing your next step.

If you’re ready to stop piecing QuickBooks together one random tutorial at a time, this is your path.

Register now and learn QuickBooks Online the way it finally starts to click: by doing the work, with an expert guiding you through it.

A Serious Course for Serious QuickBooks Skills

QuickBooks Online is not something most people master by watching a few disconnected videos.

You can learn a shortcut here, a feature there, and maybe solve one problem at a time. But when your books, your clients’ books, your payroll, your reports, and your year-end work are on the line, guessing gets expensive.

This course is a serious investment of both time and money, and it is designed that way on purpose.

Over 12 weeks, you’ll receive 72 hours of live guided training, hands-on practice, a real QuickBooks Online Plus file with Payroll, Alicia’s QuickBooks Online Complete textbook, class recordings, CPE credit, and a structured path from setup to year-end.

At the current $2,250 rate, that comes out to about $31 per hour of live training before you even factor in the textbook, practice files, recordings, CPE credits, and support. More importantly, you’re investing in the kind of practical knowledge that can save you months of confusion and help you do the work more professionally.

You are not paying for a pile of videos.

You are paying for guided practice, expert feedback, real company files, and a complete learning experience built around actually using QuickBooks Online.

Who This Course Is For

This course is designed primarily for bookkeepers, aspiring bookkeepers, and accounting professionals who want to build real competence in QuickBooks Online.

Whether you’re starting a bookkeeping career, expanding your services, preparing to take on more clients, or tired of second-guessing your QBO workflow, this hands-on training gives you the structure, practice, and expert guidance to do the work more confidently.

Small business owners are welcome too, especially if you want a deeper understanding of your books and the systems behind them. Just know that this is a comprehensive, professional-level course, so it goes beyond the basics most business owners need for day-to-day bookkeeping.

Learn QuickBooks by Building Real Company Files

This course is built like a 12-week college class, but designed for real-world QuickBooks Online users who want the software to finally make sense.

Alicia will guide you step by step through the full QuickBooks Online workflow, from setup to year-end. You’ll start with the foundation, including your chart of accounts and company settings. Then you’ll move into the daily bookkeeping work, including sales, expenses, banking, customers, vendors, inventory, payroll, projects, reports, and reconciliations.

But this is not just a “watch me click around QuickBooks” class.

You’ll see each workflow demonstrated, then you’ll practice it yourself. That matters because QuickBooks is easier to understand when you can connect the buttons to the bookkeeping behind them. You’ll learn not just what to click, but why it matters, when to use it, and how each step affects the company file.

You’ll practice in three ways:

First, you’ll learn with Craig’s Design and Landscaping.
Alicia will use Intuit’s sample company, Craig’s Design and Landscaping, to demonstrate each procedure click by click. Because the sample company resets, you can return to it and practice the same workflows as many times as you need.

Next, you’ll build Imagine Photography from scratch.
At the end of each chapter in QuickBooks Online Complete, you’ll complete a hands-on “Do It Yourself” exercise. You’ll receive a free one-year educational subscription to your own QuickBooks Online file, where you’ll build the books for Imagine Photography, a retail and service company that sells camera equipment and also does photo shoots. As the chapters build, your company file builds too, giving you practical experience with the way bookkeeping activity unfolds over time.

Then, if you’re ready for an extra challenge, you can work through YinYang Graphic Design.
More experienced learners can reinforce their skills with an optional second case study. Instead of walking you through every click, this challenge tells you what the company file needs next and gives you the opportunity to create the transactions from memory, referring back to the chapter as needed.

You’ll also receive a paperback copy of QuickBooks Online Complete, the college textbook written by Alicia Katz Pollock and published by Questiva Consultants. The class follows the structure of the book, turning the lessons into a live, guided experience where you can ask questions, practice the workflows, and build confidence as you go.

By the end of the course, you won’t just have watched QuickBooks being used. You’ll have built complete company files, practiced real bookkeeping scenarios, and gained a stronger understanding of how QuickBooks Online works from the inside out.

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

• Set up a new QuickBooks file
• Create sales transactions to receive money from your customers
• Create expense transactions to pay your vendors
• Use the Bank Transactions Center and reconcile your bank statements
• Run reports analyzing your company’s performance
• Manage inventory stock levels
• Set up employees and run payroll
• Use Projects and job costing features to analyze profitability
• Close out the year including equity adjustments

How To Take This Course

We will cover each chapter of the book over four hours. During the first two hours, Alicia will run through the chapter lesson, demonstrating the techniques using Craig’s Landscaping, while students follow in their book. In the third and fourth hours, Alicia will demonstrate the end-of-chapter exercise while students follow along in a live lab environment where they can ask questions and get help.

If the work is not completed by the end of class, students are strongly encouraged to finish it between classes so that they’re ready for the next chapter. While the homework is not “required,” the Imagine Photography scenario builds chapter by chapter. It must be completed (and any mistakes corrected) before you can add the content from the following chapter.

This agenda requires a time commitment from attendees. It’s important to attend each session to learn QBO’s features and workflows. If you are unable to keep pace with the end-of-chapter exercise, that’s fine; you can just keep going at your own pace and we’ll help you as much as we can!

We understand that work, life, and the holidays also require your full attention. Each live session will be recorded so you can go back and review the content, or catch up on classes you missed

Watch a Sample from QBO Hands-On Training 2025

Watch a sample lesson from last year's QBO Complete Hands-On Training and see how Alicia walks through managing a vehicle or equipment loan in QBO, including the setup, journal entry, and recurring payments.

Certification Prep

This course is mapped to Certiport’s QuickBooks Online Certified User (QBOCU) exam, a valuable industry credential that validates your QuickBooks Online expertise. Boost your career prospects and earning potential by demonstrating your proficiency to employers and clients.

Participation will also prepare you for the majority of Intuit’s QuickBooks ProAdvisor Certification, though we do not cover the QBOA Accountants tools that are on that exam.

Sponsored by Universal Accounting & Alignable

Build your QuickBooks skills, grow your confidence, and take the next step in your accounting career.

We’re proud to have Universal Accounting sponsoring QBO Hands-On Training 2026. Since 1979, Universal Accounting has helped accounting, bookkeeping, and tax professionals gain the training, certifications, coaching, and support they need to build confidence, expand their skills, and get paid what they’re worth. If you’re learning QuickBooks Online to grow your career, strengthen your client services, or prepare for your next professional step, Universal Accounting offers additional resources to help you keep moving forward.

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