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The Accounting Lifecycle Course with Mariette Martinez


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Revolutionize the way you serve and speak to small businesses year-round!
Master accounting compliance and the essential conversations that count, from the financial foundations and statements to managing, balancing, and maintaining small business books year-round. And you’ll close the year strong with the ultimate year-end handoff.

 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify all the essential accounting tasks and financial management steps included in the four stages of the Accounting Lifecycle
  • Recognize which Accounting Lifecycle stages and steps apply to in-house, independent, and collaborative bookkeeping roles
  • Differentiate between the Balance Sheet, Income Statement (Profit and Loss), and Cash Flow Statement and the insights each one provides
  • List the steps of a repeatable, streamlined year-end readiness process

 

What You’ll Learn

  • Defining and designing your role as a collaborative bookkeeping professional
  • Navigating the Accounting Services Roadmap
  • Mapping the Small Business Accounting Workflow from books to taxes
  • Managing bookkeeping tasks and taking professional responsibility for the books
  • Organizing the chart of accounts and applying the accounting equation
  • Managing the books monthly with the Ultimate Accounting Services Checklist
  • Balancing the books by reconciling and reviewing balance sheet accounts
  • Reading the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement
  • Having financial conversations that count with business owners
  • Maintaining the books year-round with KPIs, metrics, and quarterly tax compliance
  • Closing the books with a year-end readiness process
  • Reflecting on your growth and setting goals for your next step

 

The Accounting Life Cycle Description

Are you a bookkeeping professional who knows your way around the software but wants to truly understand how to build and articulate the financial data that truly impacts small business sustainability and financial success?

If this is you, then Alicia and Mariette have something special to share!

Imagine completing a full year of bookkeeping where month-end isn’t a mad dash to the finish line, but instead a smooth monthly checkpoint with a detailed step-by-step checklist that will guide you to build and maintain tax-ready, rock solid books year-round.

Imagine a year-end that is no longer a rush to make stressful tax deadlines and instead a streamlined year-end readiness process that provides a clean handoff to the tax professional, who’ll love your work so much they’ll want to send you all their clients for clean books.

This reality is much closer than you think as Alicia and I have collaborated on a special financial literacy cohort specifically for her OWLS bookkeeping community members.

Software skills are essential because they teach where to go and how to get the transactions in. Financial literacy and building a year-round accounting system are what will help you understand the books, explain them to business owners, and stand behind the massive value you bring as a collaborative bookkeeping professional.

Introducing the Accounting Lifecycle Course, a live, step-by-step financial literacy and professional development cohort through the entire accounting services journey, from start to finish.
We’ll take this journey one stage at a time: manage, balance, maintain, and close the small business books with clarity and confidence. With each stage you will learn how to communicate in plain business language and provide the real-time financial insights entrepreneurs can make proactive decisions from and will pay for.

This cohort prioritizes your professional goal and that is why we start with you.

Before we dive into literacy, you’ll define and design the role you want to play as you deliver these accounting services, whether that’s as an in-house bookkeeper, building your own practice, or working alongside another professional.
You’ll use that goal to build an action plan and carry it throughout the entire program.

Then we walk, step-by-step, through the Small Business End-to-End Accounting Lifecycle together which includes:
  • Manage rock-solid books monthly
  • Balance books beautifully with a detailed audit-proof checklist
  • Read and Analyze the financial statements to have the conversations that count
  • Maintain solid books so that meaningful insights can be provided year round
  • Close the books with the ultimate year-end readiness process

 

Accounting Lifecycle Course Schedule

 

Cohort dates: November 10 – December 8, 2026

9 live sessions, 2 hours each (18 hours total)

Tuesdays 9am PT: Nov 10 (First Day), 17, 24, Dec 1, 8 (Last Day)

Saturdays 9am PT: Nov 14, 21, 28, Dec 5

You will need to spend extra time outside of class to get the action tasks done. Most students find they need 1- 3 additional hours to complete tasks and prepare for the next class. 

Four Tuesday watch-party training sessions with Alicia, which will include timed pauses for exercises and group discussions.

Four Saturday training, implementation + Q&A sessions with Mariette 

Final Tuesday Session on December 8th will be Course Closing and Celebration with Mariette and Alicia.

All sessions from 9-11am PACIFC TIME 

Throughout the cohort, Mariette will provide lesson assignments and will stay connected with members inside the Royalwise class forum; most members require 2-4 additional hours to complete action tasks.

 


 

Instructional Level

Beginner to Intermediate

 

Course Length

18 hours

 

Course Credits

18 CPE, Certificate of Completion

 

Field of Study

Accounting

 

Delivery Method

Group Internet Based

 

Who should take this course?

  • An in-house bookkeeper ready to become a stronger, more confident bookkeeper for the business you serve
  • A bookkeeper building your own practice or side hustle who wants to provide top-tier, year-round accounting services
  • An accounting pro working in, or with, another practice who wants to see the entire accounting services journey from start to finish
  • An OWLS Incubator intern preparing for monthly closes, reconciliations, and year-end work with Royalwise clients

Evergreen Access (Made to Stay Current)

Your purchase is designed to stay useful long after you finish the course! As the software changes, we refresh the content so you’re not learning from outdated screens. You’ll also have access to the class discussion/Q&A so you can ask questions when real-life situations pop up. And because it’s lifetime access, you can revisit the videos, handouts, and materials anytime you need a quick refresher.

Live Session + Replay Included

If you can’t attend at the scheduled time, go ahead and enroll—your live registration includes free access to the on-demand replay. We record every live class and post an edited version to the course page within two weeks of the class date. Once it’s available, you’ll receive a notification inside your OWLS portal.

While the replay is being published, you can download the notes/handouts and complete any quizzes or questionnaires so you’re ready to follow along when you watch.

 


Refunds & Cancellations

Please view our Terms of Service, for information on refunds, cancellations, and complaint resolution. To request a refund, please contact us.

Royalwise Solutions Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

 


Course Credits: 18 CPE, Certificate of Completion. Must be awarded within one year of enrollment.
Course Updated: October 2026

Course Page Updated: October 2026

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Here is the course outline:

1. Session 1: Know Your Role: Mapping Your Accounting Services Journey

Nov 10 9am .. 11am, Pacific Time Via Zoom

Every accounting professional deserves a direction. In this session, you’ll set your goal, explore the two paths of the Accounting Services Journey, compliance and consulting, and choose the role you’re ready to build. Then you’ll map your path on the Accounting Services Roadmap and take your first steps into discovery and onboarding with the Business Accounting Profile. You’ll leave with clarity on your role, the North Star guiding you forward, and a profile to bring to Session 2.

The Roadmap Action Guide for Session 1
The Accounting Services Journey Illustrated Guide
The Business Accounting Profile
The Bookkeeping System Mindmap Explained
The Bookkeeping System Mindmap Blank Exercise
The Key Concepts in Session 1 - Bonus Slides
WrapUp and What's Next for Session #1
Introduction and Course Goal
Two Paths, One Direction
The Accounting Services Roadmap
Discovery
Onboarding
Bookkeeping System Bonus Exercise
Wrap Up and What's Next for Session #1
The Business Accounting Profile - Action Task for Session 1

2. Session 2: Know Your Business: Putting Discovery and Onboarding into Practice

Nov 14 9am .. 11am, Pacific Time Via Zoom

Great service starts with truly knowing the business you serve. In this live Q&A and implementation session, we’ll walk through your Business Accounting Profiles together, explore the profile in spreadsheet form, and talk through your onboarding process. You’ll even sit on the other side of the table with the Bookkeeping System Mindmap, practicing the questions that help you understand any business. You’ll leave ready to step into every engagement with clarity and confidence.

3. Session 3: Know the Foundations

Strong books are built one block at a time. You’ll build your financial literacy from the ground up: the chart of accounts, the accounting equation, entity structures, and reporting essentials. These are the building blocks that lead to the financial statements and every conversation that follows.

4. Session 4: Financial Statements Mastery

From the balance sheet to the bottom line, this is where the numbers come to life. You’ll learn to read the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, see how they connect, and have the conversations that count in the language small business owners understand.

5. Session 5: Accounting Lifecycle (Part 1 and 2)

See the full Small Business Accounting Workflow, then master the first two stages of the Accounting Lifecycle. You’ll learn to manage rock-solid books monthly and keep them beautifully balanced, so month-end becomes a smooth checkpoint, not a mad dash.

6. Session 6: The Ultimate Accounting Services Checklist

Turn the Accounting Lifecycle into a year-round system you can run one task at a time. You’ll walk through the Ultimate Accounting Services Checklist, make it your own, and set up your services to deliver consistent, value-add support all year long.

7. Session 7: Accounting Lifecycle (Part 3 and 4)

Keep books solid and tax-ready year-round, then learn what it really takes to close them. You’ll explore KPIs, quarterly tax compliance, and the closing process, so you’re ready to finish the year strong.

8. Session 8: The Ultimate Year-End Handoff

Year-end doesn’t have to be overwhelming. You’ll learn the year-end readiness process and timeline, plus the pre-work that makes January lighter and the tax pro handoff clean. And with the Bookkeeper’s Year-End Readiness Checklist, you’ll plan for your own role, too.

9. Session 9: Closing and Celebration

We come full cycle. You’ll reflect on how far you’ve grown, revisit your goal and your role, set your next steps, and celebrate everything you’ve built together.

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