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Staff Accountant Program

Learn day-to-day staff accounting through a simulated coffee-roasting company.

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Curriculum

Your First Week

Your first week as an intern at Bean & Bag Roasters. Five hands-on assignments from the accounting team.

  • Assignment · First Day — Orientation
  • Assignment · Record Month-End Accrual — January Utilities
  • Assignment · Categorize Weekly Bank Feed
  • Assignment · Reconcile Operating Bank Account — February
  • Assignment · Record Vendor Bill — GreenLeaf Importers
  • Lesson · lesson 1
Week 2 — Accounts Payable & Inventory

Your first project. Café Verde, a Portland wholesaler, placed a PO for 500 bags of Colombian 12oz — delivery by end of February, Net 30, PO value $8,750. You're the AP clerk on this project this week: buy the beans, book the freight, order the packaging, roast, pay the vendors, and close February.

  • Assignment · Record Vendor Bill — GreenLeaf (Café Verde Lot)
  • Assignment · Record Freight Vendor Invoice — Cascade Freight
  • Assignment · Record Vendor Bill — PackRight Packaging
  • Assignment · Resolve Short Shipment — PackRight
  • Assignment · Record Production Run — First Roast Batch
  • Assignment · Record Production Run — Remaining Batches
  • Assignment · Record Inventory Shrinkage — Roast Loss
  • Assignment · Pay Vendor Invoice — GreenLeaf Importers
  • Assignment · Pay Vendor Invoice — PackRight Supply
  • Assignment · Record Month-End GR/IR Accrual — Farm-Direct Lot
Week 3 — Accounts Receivable

Learn how Bean & Bag manages customer invoices, cash collections, and outstanding receivables.

  • Assignment · Onboard a new wholesale customer
  • Assignment · Add a new finished-good coffee to the catalog
  • Assignment · Send Ridgeline their first invoice
  • Assignment · Record a partial payment from Ridgeline
  • Assignment · Collect the remaining Ridgeline balance
  • Assignment · Investigate Maple Bros' outstanding balance
  • Assignment · Analyze the year-end AR Aging report
Adjusting Entries

Depreciation, prepaid amortization, deferred revenue, and accruals.