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Governmental Accounting 200 Capital Projects & Debt Service (Udemy.com)

Governmental Accounting-Capital Projects Fund & Debts Service Fund-Long Term Capital Projects Transactions

4.5

199 reviews

Created by: Robert (Bob) Steele

Last updated September 2019

What you will learn

Governmental accounting core concepts
How to record capital assets for governmental accounting
How to record transaction to the capital project fund
How to record transaction related to large capital projects
How to create financial statements for the capital projects fund
Financing options including the issuance of bonds for capital projects
How to record transactions to the debt service fund
How to record transactions related to capital projects to the government wide activities, capital project fund, debts service fund & General Fund

How it compares

Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:

Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 47% of them
Reviews199#270 of 377 by number of reviews
Length20.8 hourslonger than 89% of them
Last updatedSeptember 2019earlier than 92% of them

Course Description

The course will focus on larger capital projects and the use of a capital project fund and debt service fund to track them.

We will cover governmental accounting objective, which will be a review from governmental accounting 100.

The course will discuss what capital assets are and how they are recorded in governmental accounting, comparing governmental accounting to for-profit accounting.

Students will learn to record transactions for the issuance of bonds used to finance capital projects, recording transactions at the government-wide level and in the capital project fund, debts service fund, and general fund.

We will create financial statements related to the capital project fund and the debt service fund.

The course will include a comprehensive problem, recording transactions to multiple funds.

As we learn each concepts the course will include Excel worksheets to be downloaded and used to work problems in a step by step format along with instructional videos.

Excel worksheet will generally have three tabs, one with the answer, one with a preformatted worksheet, and one with a blank worksheet.

Intermediate Level

Time: 20.8h

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Instructor Details

Robert (Bob) Steele

4.5 Rating
199 Reviews

Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his.

Mr. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. He has been a practicing CPA since 2005. Mr. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA).

Mr. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software.