QuickBooks Online Made Simple For Small Business Owners (Udemy.com)
Crash Course For Express/Minimum Necessary Bookkeeping
Created by: Mark Smolen
Last updated February 2026
What you will learn
- 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 To Sign Up for The Free Trial Of QuickBooks Online
- The Ability To Find And Fix Any Bookkeeping Mistake
- How To Manage The QuickBooks Online Chart Of Accounts
- How To Set Up And use Customer And Vendor List Names
- How To Set Up And Use “Register Windows” In QuickBooks Online
- How To Record All Bank Deposits From Income Sources Or Owner’s Investment
- How To Record All Checks And Expenses As Well As Owner’s Personal Non-Business Withdrawals
- How To Record All Types Of Credit Card Transactions
- How To Properly Record All Cash On Hand And Petty Cash Transactions
How it compares
Against the other 200 rated Udemy courses in Accounting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.3 out of 5higher than 16% of them
- Reviews135#167 of 201 by number of reviews
- Length2.7 hoursshorter than 77% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2026more recently than 69% of them
Course Description
Would you like to go quickly, from beginner to expert, for everything that a small business owner using QuickBooks Online could need? This ground-breaking course will give just you what you need to completely manage all of any small, simple companys' minimum required financial record keeping and reports.
You can start this course with no knowledge of anything, and just by following along step by step, you will be at an expert level of QuickBooks Online IN LESS THAN 3 HOURS!!
If your company is just you with the services you provide and the providers you pay for the services you need, then this course will make all your QuickBooks Online record keeping and reporting seem like child's play! It will give you ONLY what you need quickly and simply, without wasting time with anything that does not apply to you AND have fun along the way.
In this QuickBooks Online crash course, you will learn to correctly and easily do the minimum amount of required bookkeeping in the shortest amount of time.
You will be able to record any type of transaction that is required for the minimum amount of bookkeeping that the IRS, or any other regulatory agency, would require for you to summarize your transactions to make accurate financial reports and documents.
You will be able to find transactions instantly. You will see all your customer transactions sorted together and your service vendor transactions as well. This gives you total control over what's going on in your company. You can also see a monthly profit and loss so you can see clearly where your money is coming in from and where it's going to. You can compare how well you did from month to month.
Most small business owners need to focus on running their company and not get distracted by bookkeeping issues or details. This course fixes that issue so you can be the best you can be without spending all of your time doing bookkeeping.
This course is topic rich with all the vital topics you would need to do bookkeeping for the most common self-employed small-business owners.
In fact, if you did no bookkeeping at all so far, the methods shown here are exactly what your accountant would do to expedite your bookkeeping in an express but accurate way just to be able to do your taxes.
It's very important that you quickly read the list of topics to see how many wonderful topics will be presented to you in a smooth and easy and enjoyable way to learn.
1. PREPARING NECESSARY DOCUMENTS
2. SIGNING UP FOR QUICKBOOKS ONLINE
3. SET UP AND UNDERSTANDING THE CHART OF ACCOUNTS
4. SET UP QUICKBOOKS ONLINE REPORTS
5. MANAGE NAMES LIST (CUSTOMERS / VENDORS)
6. RECORDING BANK DEPOSITS
7. FINDING AND FIXING ANY MISTAKES
8. RECORDING CHECKS AND EXPENSES
9. ALL CREDIT CARD TRANSACTIONS
10. PETTY CASH AND CASH-ON-HAND TRANSACTIONS
11. BUSINESS-TO PERSONAL-TRANSACTIONS
12. NAVIGATING AND EDITING ALL QUICKBOOKS ONLINE WINDOWS
I'm so sure that you will not have any questions that I offer free unlimited responses to any question or message you might have about the course material. I always get back to my students quickly because I am so thankful that they took my course and I want them to enjoy the learning experience.
I wish you good luck with your bookkeeping studies and I hope to see you there
Mark
Instructor Details
- 4.3 Rating
135 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 Carlos García on 6/2/2023
The person is explaining very clrearly
By Marcella on 2/25/2023
This is perfect, this is what I was looking for. Simple, clear and straightforward. It gave me everything I needed. Thank you Mark!
By Angella Ortiz on 12/13/2022
Easy to follow, but the content could be better by having hands-on projects! It was not a good course for a beginner.
By Andrew Muir on 2/13/2022
It wasn't clear that this was for an American company/situation, and not a British one (IRS vs HMRC). There are a few differences, but there are also software differences from the version used in the video, to the version I'm using now (old video? older version? UK vs USA?) and I'm not sure why. Good course if you know nothing about quickbooks, but nothing you won't figure out for yourself while 'playing around' with it.
By Teresa Lake on 2/4/2022
Course was okay and gave me a basic feel for QuickBooks. I would like to note that my opinion of expertise surrounding this course was lowered as I noted multiple typos and spelling mistakes in the final quiz.
By Frank Kurka on 11/26/2021
Very informative. Telling me things I didn’t realize so far when using QuickBooks.
By Jaymin Patel on 5/21/2021
It is very nice explain conceptually and its cover all things which is useful for accounting
By Grace Lindelow Koon on 1/16/2021
I really enjoyed the course but on "setting up reports and names list" they didn't go through how to set up the suppliers names/account and at one point during the "managing cash transactions" part they skipped one transaction and went right to another which messed up my over all trail balance report. I eventually figured out that they just didn't add the one account on the video and I did it myself so that the numbers would match the courses in the next video. Over all very informative and helpful especially for a two hour course.
By Bailey Willett on 1/5/2021
great match but would be better if there was speaking
By Christine Silva-Netto on 1/2/2021
The instructor speaks slow and the videos are very detailed based on what he is discussing.
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Overall Score : 86 / 100












