If It’s Accounting, It’s Universal:

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Universal Accounting is a company that is making a difference in the lives of their students! For those who are pursuing or looking into the possibilities of pursuing a career path into the Accounting, Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation services, you need to get to know more about what all Universal offers in their comprehensive training programs.

If you prefer onsite classroom study or looking for the benefits received on independent study, we have developed the programs that you will be able to get the one-on-one experience in your own home. The skills we have used over the course of the last 28 years, with the trial and error, the fine-tuning of accounting methods and strategies, and what we and thousands more have experienced running their own practices - we have provided to you the advantage to stay on top of your profession. Our coursework is designed to be exactly what you will be doing when you are servicing the biggest customer base available, the small business owner.

If you are looking for the knowledge, the skills, and the know-how to start or build your accounting or tax practice, or just looking to gain the essential skills to further your career in your place of business, Universal’s Programs are what you are going to need.

Click here to take the Video Tour of Universal and all that we offer to you, the accounting and tax professional to be the best in your field and to have the success in business and in your professional life that you are seeking.Our exclusive short term courses do just that!

Imagine staying on top of the latest in the industry and having access to the experts who can assist you through training? Imagine what you are learning can be applied the very next day at work? Imagine being able to keep the materials, and the reading for continued referencing as you take that path in Accounting, Bookkeeping and Tax Preparation? You don’t have to imagine too hard, because that is one of the many things you receive when you enroll in these specialized programs! Click here to get to know Universal Accounting.

Are You Ready For The Next Step?
Be in business for yourself, but not by yourself getting paid what you’re worth! Are you tired of thinking, “Why not me?” You have gotten this far in your search to do what you want to in your chosen career, take the next step. The time is now to be able to get the training and the change you desire in your professional life. Click here to find out if Professional Tax Preparation Certification is a fit for you.

Be the Profit Expert Professional for Small Business! Don’t hesitate another day in getting the Accounting and Marketing Training that makes the difference. Click here to get more information on what you need to know about becoming the Profit Center Expert for small business accounting and tax!

We could all probably agree that your beliefs influence your actions. If you believe that your business will succeed if you work hard enough, than chances are you’ll work hard to see the success of your business. We’d like to take that thought a bit further and say that your beliefs not only influence your actions, but they also influence your experience. If you believe that people generally treat each other well, than chances are you’ll not only treat others well but you’ll experience others treating you well.

So what do successful business owners believe? We’re guessing that their beliefs influence their actions, their experiences, and their success. Who knows? A successful business owner’s beliefs may be your ticket to a more profitable business. Here are five beliefs that are common among successful business owners:

1. Success is a given

Successful business owners don’t waste energy worrying about failure. They expect to succeed. They believe that their actions will lead to success and trust that every roadblock is simply a part of that journey.

2. Every situation presents an opportunity

Successful business owners view every trial, struggle, difficulty, and triumph as an opportunity to move forward. Perhaps they see the situation as an opportunity to learn more in order to grow their business. Or perhaps it’s the opportunity to change their course of direction. Regardless of how challenging the situation may be, the successful business owner never views it as an obstacle, only a stepping stone.

3. A mission statement isn’t fluff; it’s reality

Once they’ve crafted a mission statement, the successful business owner begins to live it, imagining that it’s not just a statement, but a reality. This enables them to press forward to accomplish their objectives and achieve more and more success.

4. A failure is an experience, not a forecast

It can be so easy to let failure deflate you. But remember, failure is simply an experience, not a forecast. If you step back and view it as a teaching moment, there’s a lot the failure might teach you. In fact, many successful business owners attribute their success to one pivotal failure they experienced.

5. If you build it (and market really well) they will come

Whatever the business might be, a tax practice, an accounting business, a full financial sesrvice provider, the successful business owner recognizes its value and believes that as long as potential clients are aware that it exists, they will come. They view marketing as a process, not an event, and are sure to get the word out so that people have the opportunity to benefit from their services.

In the Black

Obviously successful business owners are in the black. They recognize the value of increasing prosperity in order to expand their business and enhance their success, using their belief system and proven principles of profitability. Allen Bostrum, president and CEO of Universal Accounting Center has developed 9 proven principles that help small business owners like you increase profit. He’s written about these principles in his book called In the Black which is an easy-read that will teach you practical actions you can take immediately to increase your profitability. For less than $20 you could begin changing the course of your business. Order In the Black today!

It’s mid-summer and you’re probably experiencing a lull in business; not too many are interested in taxes this time of year. What are some things you can do? We have a suggestion. Why not use this time to enhance your skills and become a full service financial provider? You’ll be able to increase your service offerings and turn your business into a full-time, year-round venture. It’s finally time to quit your day job and give yourself a raise.

How Easy Is It?

You may think that adding accounting services to your offerings would require a lot of time, energy, and money. That’s simply not true. In 60 hours you could not only have the skills, but the confidence to perform small business accounting for a growing niche market. Universal Accounting Center’s Professional Bookkeeper (PB) Program provides hands-on training in the day-to-day accounting tasks required by small businesses. From payroll to bank reconciliations, you’ll learn how to manage more than your clients’ books; you’ll also become their Profit Expert, informing them how they can increase their business’s profitability and success. Imagine how valuable that service would be to small business owners who often struggle to last longer than 5 years.

Testimonial: This course has really helped open options I never thought I had before. The training was easy to understand, and the hands-on work emphasizes that understanding and know-how.-Barbara W.

How Much Could You Make?

We’ll do more than give you an average income range; we’ll share an equation that will help you calculate how many clients you will need to earn the income you desire. You can charge the average client $300/month. If you have 20 clients you’re earning $6000 per month. That’s $72,000 in one year, and that number doesn’t even take into account how much you earn during tax season. Depending on your needs, you can increase or decrease the number of clients in order to hit your target income.

Testimonial: As of July 1st, I am leaving my job of 15 years and working my business full time. I already have enough clients, on contract, to give me a larger annual income than I had working for my employer.-Robbie Ursu

How Many Clients Could You Have?

We challenge you to take a drive down your main street or thumb through the yellow pages of your local phone book. How many small, local businesses can you find? And that doesn’t even include the countless entrepreneurs working from their homes. Your potential client base is huge and continues to grow every year.

Testimonial: After completing UAC’s training I opened my business. I now have 15 clients, and have only had one meeting that did not result in a new client.-Victoria Richardson

How Long Would It Take To Get Started?

The Professional Bookkeeper Program is designed to teach you everything you need to know to get started. And because operating an accounting and bookkeeping practice from your home requires little to no startup costs, you could have your practice up and running as soon as you’re ready. This program is practically a ready-made business; you add confidence and stir.

Testimonial: I did not imagine that I could face this world out there and talk confidently about accounting and bookkeeping, let alone start my own business in it. But having this class, I have developed the confidence that I need to go out there and be on my own and the confidence to make a go at it. I’m ready to face the world!!!-Julie M.

Now is the perfect time to take advantage of a lull in business to grow your clientele and become a full-service financial provider. It’s not only easy, but profitable and can take just a couple months to get started. You’ve already got a strong base with your tax preparation business. Why not take advantage of your standing by growing your business this summer?

Our Business-Warming Gift

If you order the Professional Bookkeeper Program now, we’ll throw in QuickBooks Made Profitable as a business-warming gift! Most financial professionals know that QuickBooks is the most popular accounting software used by small business owners. You can use your QuickBooks skills to attract even more clients. When you order the PB Program, you’ll learn how to do just that! With these two programs you will be able to increase your service offerings and learn how to use your QuickBooks skills to attract even more clients.

Not only is now the perfect time for you to grow your business, but this is the perfect opportunity to help you do that.

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7 Tips that to Help You Meet the Challenge of Starting Your Own Accounting and Tax Practice

Often what will successfully see you through startup is not a small business loan but a little self-coaching. Many small business owners spend more time worrying about their efforts than they do running their businesses. When you’re able to focus on what’s important, you’re better equipped to survive the highs and lows of launching your practice. Last week we discussed the first three of 7 tips designed to help you meet the challenge of starting your own accounting and tax practice:

1. Self Assess
2. Self Affirm
3. Question Yourself

This week we’ll discuss the final four tips:

4. Grow Your Passion

Most people start their own practices because they’re passionate about what they do: accounting and tax preparation. If you’re passionate about your trade it’s important that you hone your expertise to become the premier financial provider in your area. This may require you to invest in additional training, earn professional certification, or build your professional network. Whatever it is, it should ignite that passion and feed your desire to better serve your clientele.

5. Place Yourself in Positive, Rewarding Environments

Have you ever noticed how being with positive, upbeat people leaves you feeling positive and upbeat? On the down side, placing yourself in negative and draining environments will leave you feeling negative and drained. As you build your startup it’s important to place yourself in the most affirming environments possible, enabling you to approach your practice with joy and enthusiasm.

6. Reduce Energy Drains

Related to number five is this tip: reduce energy drains. The truth is starting your own practice is a big enough drain on its own. If you find there are too many demands on your energy, watch for those which are unnecessary or unnecessarily taxing. Do you have a client that’s more trouble than they’re worth? A colleague whose competitive and flashy nature distracts you? Or perhaps a vendor that’s nagging you for too much attention? Once you pinpoint those energy drains it’s time to plug them up! Eliminate the source and you’ll find it’s not long before you’re feeling empowered and rejuvenated.

7. Build a Solid Support Network

It helps to start your journey by building a support network filled with like-minded professionals. Included in your support network should be seasoned accountants and tax preparers, veteran small business owners, and other professionals who could coach and advise you on your journey to startup success.

Partner with UAC to Launch a Successful Accounting and Tax Practice

The Professional Bookkeeper (PB) Program, a self-paced training course in small business accounting, is the perfect way to build your confidence and provide you with informed self-coaching techniques designed to help you succeed as a contract accountant or bookkeeper. Your time is valuable, and you don’t have an unlimited amount of time in which to see your business succeed. That is why this course is self-paced, enabling you to complete it on your own time and in as little as 60 hours, if you so choose. Not to mention, this course comes complete with proven marketing strategies that will enable you to attract the clients that will sustain your practice and make you the premier accountant and tax preparer in the area.

QuickBooks Made Profitable Will Make Your Business Even More Profitable

If you order the Professional Bookkeeper Program now, we’ll throw in another valuable program: QuickBooks Made Profitable. Most financial professionals know that QuickBooks is the most popular accounting software used by small business owners. You can use your QuickBooks skills to attract even more clients. Want to know how? When you order the PB Program, you’ll get QuickBooks Made Profitable for free! With these two programs you’ll learn how to not only enhance your service offerings, but market them effectively to the right individuals! You’ve waited for the perfect opportunity. Here it is.

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Taking from the Expert in Your Field

All of us have wished or wondered what it would be like to have an expert around that we could “pick their brain” and get our questions answered, and see what they do to be successful. Often this thought comes along when we are faced with a challenge or a problem that we have not come across before. In the field of accounting, you have direct access to one of the best!

You’ve seen him on the instructional DVD’s and possibly read his book (click here to see In The Black). You have maybe been able to see him and learn from him in person at our amazing Universal Practice Builder Program. Now you can get your does of his knowledge on an ongoing basis with his blog.

Allen’s brand new blog has covered topics from Accounting Profitability to Teamwork. You can now see what’s on the top of the mind from the force that pushes Universal Accounting Center forward. Here’s an excerpt from his blog.

“There’s no question in my mind: employees are the most important asset a company has. A company can have the finest offices, equipment, and products available on the market, and they will be outsold every time, if the employees aren’t the focus.

For that reason, I’ve always disliked the reference often made of management as “superiors”. I feel every person in the Company fills a critical role to the business regardless of their pay and position. That means that management is no better or superior, just different roles.

In working with the staff at Universal Accounting Center, I subscribe to the STAR System that we developed. All of our employees are STARs. It’s anacronym for:

Set standards for performance

Trust them to make good decisions for their jobs

Acknowledge their accomplishments and contributions

Reward them for excellent performance

I find that people rise to the needs of their position if given enough direction, and encouragement. They must first understand the value they bring to the business, and how their contribution impacts everyone. They must furthermore be aware of what is expected of them, and how they can know whether or not they are meeting that expectation. We call this setting the standard for performance.”

This is only an example on what Allen has posted on www.allenbostrom.com. Bookmark the site and come back often to see what new innovations, what issues he’s thinking about, and what’s on the horizon with Universal’s resident expert.

Keep in Mind How UAC Can Help You
Universal Accounting Center understands that marketing may not be one of your strengths and has designed a DVD intended to help those of us who are marketing-challenged. For just $9.95 you can learn effective marketing strategies for your tax practice. You’re less than $10.00 away from learning which marketing strategies to include in your marketing plan. Order today!

7 Ways to Optimize a Small Office Space

Whether you work at home or from a rented office, limited space can make it difficult to create a comfortable and functional work environment. Inviting clients to your office can become embarrassing if you find it difficult to sit down yourself. If you’re suffering from cramped quarters, it’s time to reinvent your office space to one that is more professional and inviting. Here are 7 ways you can get started:

1. Consider what your office says about your business
Whether or not you like it, your office says something about your business. Whether it’s sloppy, creative, neat, or sterile, your clients will leave your office with a new opinion of your services as well. Before you make any changes consider the image you would like to project and go from there. Every item you bring into or take out of your office will be much more informed and could enhance the nonverbal message you’re communicating to current and potential clients.

2. Think outside the box
You don’t have to buy office furniture from an office supply store. Consider other alternatives. Ikea has a good selection of streamlined furniture that can solve storage problems while maximizing the amount of living space your office offers. You may find pieces that are unusual yet highly functional, giving your office a quirky and personable feel.

3. Measure before your buy
As you look for pieces that will enhance your professional image while optimizing the space you have available, be sure you measure before you purchase anything. You should know the parameters of your office and buy items that will fit nicely within designated spaces. And before placing furniture you can test a new office arrangement by taping the floor with the furniture measurements so you can see if your plan will indeed optimize the available space.

4. Use storage bins
It’s important that you have furniture that will enable you to store everything you need to adequately do your job. Whether it be a filing cabinet or a stackable shelving unit, you should pick items that will work best for your particular needs.

5. Optimize vertical space
In arranging an office, people often forget the value of vertical space. As you look to your walls, consider ways you can use that surface area to best serve your needs. Shelving can definitely be attached to walls, but that’s not the only thing. Some even attach their desktops to the walls in order to better optimize the space below which would be unavailable with a conventional 4-legged desk.

6. Decorate
A little paint and some wall art can make even the smallest spaces more appealing. Consider adding a soothing shade to the walls that will add a punch of color to your office in a fairly unobtrusive (and inexpensive) way. Think back to that image you would like to project and decorate accordingly.

7. Organize
You cannot optimize any small space without organizing its contents. In fact, you may be surprised at how this tip alone will make your office appear larger. Sort everything that appears homeless. Toss that which is unnecessary and file the rest. Hopefully the storage containers you have chosen will be suitable for all that remains.

Just because your office is small doesn’t mean it has to be uninviting. You want your work environment to reflect your professionalism and capability. Taking just a few steps to optimize your office space can make all the difference in the world.