QuickBooks Online Freelance, Self-Employed Bookkeeper (Udemy.com)
Work from Home And Use QuickBooks Online To Earn Income
Created by: Mark Smolen
Last updated June 2026
What you will learn
- How To be A Work-From-Home Freelance Bookkeeper
- How To Use QuickBooks Online To Provide Express Bookkeeping To Service Clients
- How To Freelance As A Self-Employed Bookkeeper
- How To Manage Your Client's Files And Vital Data
- Crucial Differences Between QuickBooks Desktop And QuickBooks Online
- How To Obtain Business Credentials That Establish You As A Self-Employed Official Company
- How To Obtain Credentials That Persuade Clients To Hire You
- How To Market Yourself As An Independant Self-Employed Bookkeeper
- Secrets To Obtaining Your First Few Clients
- All Essential QuickBooks QuickBooks Online Features Nessisary For Minimum Bookkeeping Requirements
- How To Service Bookkeeping Clients Who need The Minumum Amount Of Bookkeping And Reports
- What Documents Are Necessary To Accurately Record The Minimum Amount Of Bookkeeping Necessary
How it compares
Against the other 200 rated Udemy courses in Accounting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 90% of them
- Reviews576#86 of 201 by number of reviews
- Length12.4 hourslonger than 71% of them
- Last updatedJune 2026more recently than 85% of them
Course Description
Working from home As a self-employed freelancer has been made easy with QuickBooks Online. You can be an independent bookkeeper with your own clients that you can service and manage on your own schedule, at your own pace, on your own time and from your own home.
This fantastic new QuickBooks Online course will give you all the knowledge and skill you need to go and service clients using QuickBooks Online.
You will get the benefit of decades of experience from bookkeepers and those who helped place them on bookkeeping jobs. This is the real knowledge from experience that could be yours if you take this course.
This course is so fantastic because it's 4 courses in 1. In addition to teaching you all of the QuickBooks Online knowledge and skill as your best advantage, this course has suggestions about obtaining clients under adverse circumstances so that you are more likely to succeed than other bookkeepers who never saw this course.
The main thing that you use to perform the service your clients is QuickBooks Online.
You do not neeed any prior knowledge of Bookkeeping or QuickBooks Online This course will teach you beginner to advance in the crash courses section that's perfect for the things that you will do for your client. You learn to record their information, manage their documents and files, and give them the monthly statements they need for taxes or management reasons. You will also learn another mini course included that shows you how to expedite everything you learned in the first course, so you can service clients fast and get more clients and make more money.
Then of course, the 3rd QuickBooks Online section is the most important one. It's where you learned how to prove to yourself, your clients, and the rest of the world, that your service is accurate and correct and everything you do for your client is right!!
It will even help you understand and remember your legal documents that establish you as an official company. You will also learn about credentials that persuade your clients to hire you. It has great information about how to market yourself as an independent bookkeeper.
I even added a section at the end to give my personal secrets and best possible advice and information from all the experiences I have accumulated helping people both become in-house bookkeepers and self-employed bookkeepers and all the success that they've had.
I know everyone will love this course. It has extremely valuable information that almost anyone can gain from regarding being a freelancer of any kind. All self-employed people working as any kind of virtual assistant or independent remote worker will gain from this course.
There are fun projects and tests for each section for you to check how well you leaned and remembered all the great material that you will receive in this ground breaking new course.
Most importantly, I get back to all my students very quickly to answer their course-related questions.
The course really does have everything you need, and I hope you to see you all there.
-Mark
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
576 Reviews
Mark Smolen
I have 3 decades of experience teaching Computerized Accounting. I have taught QuickBooks at A.S.A college in Manhattan New York. I have made my lessons available to certified job training schools for adult education and have helped place hundreds of students in good paying jobs using QuickBooks and other software that they learned in my class. Now, I've helped thousands of students from Udemy get great jobs or run their own business.
I am a permanently licensed teacher by the New York State Education Department. I am also a Certified QuickBooks Pro adviser for 2 decades. I have made these videos by determining what my clients needed.
I wanted to help anyone using QuickBooks be prepared for the real-life, hands-on challenges that come with mastering the bookkeeping function of any company. I will prepare you for real life QuickBooks situations that can be challenging or frustrating if nobody shows the tips and tricks that will make using QuickBooks a fun task
I enjoy helping students turn frustration in to a feeling of comfort and satisfaction with QuickBooks. I'm always available to my students when they need me.
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Reviews
By Cynthia E. Saloio on 8/4/2026
I'm really liking how you teach to work from reports and how you can do transactions right from the register. This makes total sense to me! I worked many different admin positions and have worked in QB a bit. I recently received my Pro Adviser certificate and wanted a course to help me feel more confident. My hope is to grab a few clients to work from home and supplement my SS. I believe this will be a great reference to look back on.
By Frank Donkor on 4/27/2026
This Lecturer makes teaching so fun. I purchased his course back in 2024. I bought this new version since I have seen some new items have been added. Secondly, I couldn't start my bookkeeping business until March of this year (2026). So I really need this.
By Palice Gray on 1/27/2026
The explanations of the who, why, how and where are clear and easy to follow. The teacher's expertise is evident in that though I didn't have the same version as the video (due to the constant changes by the developer- which the teacher explains) I could still follow along a figure out where the functions now reside. Also his using and explaining the accounting behind the way things are set up or are completed help solidify accounting rules & principles.
By Anthony Davis on 12/17/2025
This course has been amazing to me. I feel absolutely SURE that I have learned so much about the material. The instructor was very thorough and explicit. Thank you so much. I have received much more than my money's worth in taking this class. I am very grateful and blessed to have the opportunity to learn from Udemy.com
By Maria F Munoz on 10/17/2025
It was an excellent course. It’s not the first course I’ve taken with Mark, and once again, I learned new and very useful skills to strengthen my QuickBooks knowledge and professional development. Mark is an outstanding instructor who always explains concepts clearly and provides practical examples that make everything easy to understand and apply. I definitely recommend this course to anyone looking to expand their QuickBooks expertise!
By Laura Burch on 10/1/2025
Apparently because QBO updates its pages, it is sometimes difficult to follow along with the instructor and find where I need to be in QBO. Fortunately, I can pause the video until I catch up with the right screen. Something that is distracting to me is the number of typos and misspellings in the examples and text in the lessons. All in all, though, I am learning, and that's why I'm here.
By Andre Alves de Vasconcelos on 8/27/2024
Hello Mark, I would like to thank you for the excellent content you presented. The classes I attended were essential in helping me understand the role of a self-employed bookkeeping professional in the USA. The guidance on using QuickBooks Online and Desktop was particularly valuable.
By Mario Guity on 4/26/2024
This course was very interesting, kept me motivated and I am now ready to take the next course to learn about the accounting and the full charge bookkeeping. I am now ready to book my 1st client and grow from there
By Becky Strassner on 1/23/2024
Very thorough instruction with examples of correct and incorrect ways to do hands-on transactions that engage the learner. So much easier to understand than Intuit's QB training!
By Susan Taylor on 7/11/2023
The video in the middle of Section 40 did not advance even though the sound continued. I could follow along with the sound, but it's nice to have visual. Most importantly, the transaction QBO file that is to be used for the "Importing Transactions" test contained over 400 transactions and only 3 of them were to be used for the test. I had to make a transaction list myself for uploading.
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Overall Score : 94 / 100












