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Eight live, small-group programs taught at the Parrish Avenue studio and streamed to the same session online. Every price below is the whole price: materials, recordings and one follow-up clinic included.

Tuition, plainly: the figure shown is what you pay in total. Payment plans split it across the length of the course with no interest or fee. A $75 deposit reserves a seat and is credited against tuition. See the refund and cancellation policy before you enrol.

6 weeks · 18 contact hours

Bookkeeping Foundations

$545

The accounting equation without the jargon
Building a chart of accounts that suits your trade
Recording income, expenses and owner draws
Bank and credit-card reconciliation, line by line
Accruals, prepayments and why December is confusing
Month-end close checklist and the CPA handover pack

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4 weeks · 12 contact hours

Spreadsheets That Do the Work

$395

Cleaning imported data so totals actually total
SUMIFS, XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH in plain English
Pivot tables for people who have been scared of pivot tables
Charts that answer one question each
Protecting sheets and sharing them safely
Building a reusable monthly reporting workbook

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5 weeks · 15 contact hours

QuickBooks Online for Small Shops

$495

Company set-up, users and sensible permissions
Bank feeds, rules and matching without duplicates
Invoices, estimates and chasing late payers
Texas sales tax: collecting, tracking, filing
Vendors, contractors and 1099 preparation
The four reports an owner should read every month

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3 weeks · 9 contact hours

Payroll & Texas Compliance Basics

$340

Employee vs. contractor, and the cost of getting it wrong
W-4, I-9 and new-hire reporting in Texas
Running a pay cycle and reading a pay stub
Texas Workforce Commission filings and deadlines
Recordkeeping requirements and retention periods
A twelve-month compliance calendar you take home

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4 weeks · 12 contact hours

Front Office & Customer Communication

$310

Phone standards and taking a message properly
Email that gets a reply in one pass
Scheduling systems and protecting the calendar
Handling an angry customer without escalating
Intake forms, notes and confidentiality
A written front-desk manual for your workplace

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5 weeks · 15 contact hours

Digital Essentials for Career Returners

$260

Windows and macOS basics, files and folders
Cloud drives, sharing and version confusion
Video calls, calendars and shared inboxes
Passwords, phishing and two-factor authentication
Word processing and a clean, modern résumé
Sitting a typical employer computer test

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3 weeks · 9 contact hours

Inventory & Point-of-Sale for Retail

$325

Counting methods and cycle counts that don't close the shop
Cost, margin and markup without a headache
Reorder points and seasonal buying
Shrinkage: measuring it, then reducing it
Reading POS reports and spotting the odd ones
Reconciling register, POS and bank

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16 weeks · 48 contact hours + capstone

Certificate Track: Small Business Operations

$1,880

Everything in Bookkeeping Foundations
Everything in Spreadsheets That Do the Work
Everything in QuickBooks Online for Small Shops
Payroll and Texas compliance essentials
Operations: pricing, cash flow forecasting, suppliers
Capstone: a full set of books and a report pack, reviewed one-to-one

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All courses run hybrid: attend in Kerrville or join the same live session online.
Program	Length	Contact hours	Typical evening	Tuition
Bookkeeping Foundations	6 weeks	18	Tue & Thu, 6:00–7:30 p.m.	$545
Spreadsheets That Do the Work	4 weeks	12	Wed, 6:00–9:00 p.m.	$395
QuickBooks Online for Small Shops	5 weeks	15	Mon, 6:00–9:00 p.m.	$495
Payroll & Texas Compliance	3 weeks	9	Sat, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.	$340
Front Office & Communication	4 weeks	12	Tue, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	$310
Digital Essentials (Returners)	5 weeks	15	Thu, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	$260*
Inventory & Point-of-Sale	3 weeks	9	Wed, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.	$325
Operations Certificate	16 weeks	48 + capstone	Mon & Wed, 6:00–7:30 p.m.	$1,880

* Sliding scale from $95 for Kerr County residents on a low income, veterans' spouses and people returning to work after a caring break. Ask at the front desk; the conversation is short and private.

For employers

Private cohorts for four or more staff

We run closed groups at the studio or on your premises anywhere within about an hour of Kerrville. Content is trimmed to your systems — if your shop runs Square rather than Clover, we teach Square.

Flat day rate rather than per-head pricing above six people
Invoiced net 30, purchase orders accepted
Attendance record and completion certificates supplied
Optional 30-day follow-up session at no extra cost

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Instructor working through a report with a small group of employees