An on-line seminar featuring Quickbooks in California Agriculture is now being offered on the Internet by the Center for Agricultural Business (CAB).

Fresno State agricultural economics professor James Cothern has developed the self-paced tutorial, which can be accessed through CAB’s web site at www.atinet.org/cati/cab.

“This selected set of slides and accompanying data files can assist a beginning user in learning Quickbooks for agricultural record keeping purposes,” stated Cothern in introducing the tutorial. “Utilizing a self-paced tutorial, a data set can be developed and results checked by the use of a solution set which has been provided.” The data files are in self-extracting ZIP files which can be downloaded from the web site, Cothern said.

The on-line tutorial stems from an earlier workshop Cothern presented at Fresno State, introducing “The Power of Quickbooks Pro” to the agricultural community.

Quickbooks is a double entry accounting system, “but the program takes much of the need for in-depth understanding of accounting principles from the user since it does much of the necessary posting,” Cothern said. It can be used for accounting in agricultural as well as other business enterprises.

The tutorial is divided into four units: Getting Started with Quickbooks; Quickbooks Data Entry; Practice Coding Data; and Depreciation and Inventory Management. A set of Powerpoint slides with each unit leads the user through the various learning steps. The actual Quickbook data files allow the user to view the system in operation.

During his 10 years as an agricultural economics research specialist for CAB, Cothern has developed and tested an assortment of financial management tools geared especially agricultural operations. The Quickbooks program is one Cothern believes is especially suitable for small to mid-sized operations.

For more information on the tutorial, Cothern may be reached at (559) 278-2547 or by email at jamesco@csufresno.edu.

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