AccountingBeginnerSaaSv1
Staff Accountant Program — SaaS
Day-to-day staff accounting at Mail Hero, a subscription email-marketing platform.
$299.00
Curriculum
Week 1 — Orientation & Accounting Foundations
Meet Mail Hero, learn the books, and record your first entries.
- Lesson · Your First Week at Mail Hero
- Lesson · How Mail Hero Makes Money
- Assignment · Your First Day
- Lesson · The Accounting Equation and the Chart of Accounts
- Assignment · Record the Bank Service Charge
- Assignment · Code the Payments That Cleared the Bank
- Assignment · Record the Annual Insurance Premium
Week 2 — AP & SaaS Vendor Spend
Hosting, email delivery, software subscriptions and processor fees.
- Lesson · Week 2 Opener — Where the Money Goes
- Lesson · Vendor Bills, Timing and Costs Paid in Advance
- Assignment · Enter the Cloudscale Hosting Invoice
- Assignment · Enter the DeliverEdge Delivery Invoice
- Assignment · Enter the Atlas Annual Licence Invoice
- Assignment · Enter the Office Rent Invoice
- Assignment · Pay the Cloudscale Hosting Bill
Week 3 — Payroll & Employee Costs
Semi-monthly payroll, withholdings and payroll clearing.
- Lesson · Week 3 Opener — Paying the Team
- Lesson · How Mail Hero Groups Staff Costs
- Assignment · Review the Payroll Register
- Assignment · Record the Payroll Run
- Assignment · Record the Employer Payroll Taxes
- Assignment · Fund the Team's Take-Home Pay
Week 4 — Annual Subscription Billing & Deferred Revenue
Billing monthly and annual plans and parking cash in deferred revenue.
- Lesson · Week 4 Opener — Money In Before the Work
- Lesson · Anatomy of a Mail Hero Annual Invoice
- Assignment · Set Up the New Annual Customer
- Assignment · Record the New Customer's Initial Annual Invoice
- Assignment · Record the Northwind Renewal Billing
- Assignment · Set Up the Deferred Revenue Schedule
- Assignment · Bill a Contract Whose Term Starts in April
Week 5 — Revenue Recognition & Implementation Services
Releasing deferred revenue, upgrades, credits and refunds.
- Lesson · Week 5 Opener — Earning What You Already Collected
- Lesson · Releasing a Year, One Month at a Time
- Lesson · Implementation Services at Mail Hero
- Assignment · Record the Tidal Renewal With Its New Onboarding Fee
- Assignment · Recognize the Month's Subscription Revenue
- Assignment · Reconcile the Deferred Revenue Schedule
- Assignment · Clear the Duplicated Customer Invoice
- Assignment · Prepare the Monthly Revenue Support
- Assignment · Run the April Subscription Release
Week 6 — Cash Receipts, ACH & Bank Reconciliation
Processor settlements, clearing accounts and collections.
- Lesson · Week 6 Opener — Money Actually Arrives
- Lesson · How Mail Hero Gets Paid
- Lesson · Proving Cash Against the Bank Statement
- Assignment · Apply the Northwind Bank Transfer
- Assignment · Apply the Tidal Bank Transfer
- Assignment · Review What Customers Still Owe
- Assignment · Reconcile the Operating Account for March
Week 7 — Intercompany Accounting
Corporate cards, prepaid software, equipment and bank activity.
- Lesson · Week 7 Opener — Two Companies, One Group
- Lesson · Recording Both Sides of an Intercompany Charge
- Assignment · Record the Settlement Received from the Subsidiary
- Assignment · Record the Same Settlement on the Subsidiary's Books
- Assignment · Charge the March Platform Fee to the Subsidiary
- Assignment · Record the March Fee on the Subsidiary's Books
- Assignment · Agree the Intercompany Balance
Week 8 — Month-End Close
Reconciliations, accruals, deferred revenue rollforward and close.
- Lesson · Week 8 Opener — Closing the Month
- Lesson · Mail Hero's Parent Close Checklist
- Lesson · Proving Deferred Revenue
- Assignment · Prove Deferred Revenue and the Month's Revenue
- Assignment · Cut-Off Review: March Costs Invoiced in April
- Assignment · Reclassify a Misdepartmented Salary
- Assignment · Review the Completed Bank Reconciliation
- Assignment · Agree the Intercompany Confirmation
- Assignment · Revenue Movement Review
- Assignment · Complete the March Close for Mail Hero, Inc.