For most people it takes around 20 hours to finish the course. You can complete it in your own time but recommend you complete with 30 days because:

 

You’ll be using the real live Xero software to practice what you have learnt

Xero gives a 30 day free trial and once it expires you’ll have to pay

You’ll be more likely to forget what you have learnt

12 months of accounting simulation in 20 hours! 200+ invoices and bills, and close to 1000 bank transactions with gradually increasing difficulty. The only online Xero Training course with real-life practice on the Xero software and test questions to monitor your progress! It’s designed to suit both experienced book-keepers, accountants with no Xero know- ledge, or complete beginners.

Included:

  • Creating Sales Invoices: Learn how to create sales invoices, use the reference field, create items and choose different tax settings
  • Uploading Purchase Bills:

    Learn the difference between purchase bills, receipts and expenses.

    How to upload, attach or assign bills as a cost. How to set multiple currencies.

  • Expense Claims: Learn to upload expense claims directly or from your mobile app. Enable Xero’s Receipt Analysis feature. Submit expenses for approval or approve them if you have permission
  • Bank Reconciliation:

    Add bank accounts and import bank statements. Master bank reconciliation.

    Reconcile sales and purchases, transactions without bills and transfer to savings

  • Foreign Currency Transfers: The easy steps to follow
  • Cash Withdrawals: The best and most efficient way and how to keep track of balances.
  • Director’s Loan Account: Lending money to the company as a director’s loan and withdrawing it tax-free
  • Salaries: Uploading salaries to Xero and reconciling
  • Reporting:

    View month-end reports such as the Balance Sheet

    Create a Profit & Loss report and the different settings available

    Show the results as monthly, quarterly or yearly and compare them with previous periods

The course covers the most often used areas of Xero. To provide you with the most useful hands on knowledge in the shortest possible time, we’ve left out the following features, including:

 

Advanced Xero Settings: Features you won’t need on a daily basis

 

Project Costing: If there’s anything specific area you’re looking for, please ask us and we’ll be happy to confirm whether it’s included.

 

Xero Certification: Xero offers a Xero Certified Advisor Certification if you take their exam. You won’t receive this certification at the end of our course, however you should be able to take it with no difficulty at the end of our course.