Seminar Descriptions
Essentials of Starting Your Own Business
Starting your own business? We highly recommend you attend this seminar. This practical workshop will help you avoid common pitfalls; evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and learn the skills needed to succeed. Also, it explores the initial paperwork, the assessment process, legal structures and the business plan.
The Business Plan: Your Roadmap to Success
Receive quick and easy tips for writing your business plan and recommendations from an expert on how to use your plan to obtain financing, focus ideas, identify specific business objectives, and chart and manage growth. You will learn how to draft your own cash flow projections and briefly review financial reports. You will receive a free sample of a completed business plan to take home.
Financing Options for Your Business
Finding adequate financing to get a business started is a roadblock for many entrepreneurs. This seminar focuses on finding sources of financing for your startup or existing business. You will gain knowledge of the variety of resources for obtaining the financing you need for your business.
Understanding Financial Statements
Financial statements provide a snapshot of your business and are essential elements in obtaining financing and managing growth. During this seminar you will learn how to measure the financial condition of your business and how to use financial statement information to make better business decisions.
Sales Tax
Topics covered will include completing tax returns, what is or isn't taxable, your responsibilities as a taxpayer, Comptroller services and publications. There will be a question and answer session. This seminar will help the taxpayer gain the knowledge to collect and accurately report state sales tax and to maintain required records.
Marketing 101: Defining Your Market
Your products or services are only as good as the number of people who buy them. Learn the basics of marketing; identifying your target market, methods of reaching that target market, and how to identify marketing resources and tools.
Understanding the Value of Signage
Effective signs for your business increase your bottom line. Selecting a properly designed sign is as important as choosing your business location. Good design techniques for on-premise signs, temporary signs and off-premise signs will be discussed. Attendees will also learn about City of San Angelo ordinances for signage. Information from the Signage Foundation and the Small Business Administration will be presented. At this seminar you will also learn the following:
- Understanding the value of signage
- Working with existing signage
- Selecting signage that is dramatic and visible
- Examples of signage – effective and ineffective
IRS Tax Requirements
Getting accurate information on tax regulations can save any business, large or small, lots of stress, headaches and sometimes even money. This workshop will cover the different types of organizations and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Learn how to keep a good record system and determine how long to keep specific records. You will get familiar with federal tax forms the deadlines for filing and what you can or cannot use as a business deduction.
Small Business Employee Handbook Clinic
This clinic is a hands-on event for the creation of an employee handbook. Utilizing an electronic template, each attendee will be able to create or revise their personnel policies with the direction and assistance of Human Capital staff. Small business owners regularly tell us that they feel that employee handbooks and written policies are important and would be valuable to their organizations, they just can’t find the time to work on them. This clinic will allow them to focus their efforts, without the interruptions that occur all the time in small businesses.
Attendees of this clinic will:
· Identify the key elements of an Employee Handbook
· Determine the federal and state regulations that apply to your company
· Consider the policies you want to include in your “house rules” portion of the handbook
· Create or revise your handbook using a computer and handbook template provided for this class.
· Receive assistance in developing your handbook and a critique when it is completed.
Who Should Attend: Small Business owners and managers, HR managers, and anyone who has responsibility for carrying out policies and procedures in the workplace |
QuickBooks Premiere Edition 2009
These workshops will introduce you to the basic features of QuickBooks and give you an opportunity for hands-on practice. Sessions include Introduction to QuickBooks, the Basics of QuickBooks and Advance QuickBooks. Descriptions and dates of each session are provided below.
Advance registration is required. Cost is $30 in advance per session
Introduction to QuickBooks – $30
This seminar begins with the decisions you need to make before using QuickBooks. We’ll show you how to setup your company profile and where to find needed information. In this Introduction you will go through the following three modules:
Getting Started:
- Getting around in QuickBooks
- All the accounting you need to know
- Exiting QuickBooks
- Moving between company files
Setting Up:
- Creating a QuickBooks company
- Entering company information
- Customizing QuickBooks for your business
- Setting up your business accounting
- Completing company file setup
- Getting help while using QuickBooks
Working with Bank Accounts:
- Writing a QuickBooks check
- Using bank account registers
- Entering a handwritten check
- Transferring money between accounts
- Reconciling checking accounts
QuickBooks Basics – $30
In this seminar you will learn to work with and edit the chart of accounts, focus on customer/vendor lists, and get a quick review of checking account registers and entries and reconciling accounts. The lesson modules are as follows:
Working with Lists
- Chart of accounts
- Adding customers, employees and vendors
- Managing and customizing list
Using Other Accounts in QuickBooks
- Credit cards
- Fixed assets
- Sales forms
- Invoices and statements
- Using bank account registers
- Entering a handwritten check
- Transferring money between accounts
- Reconciling checking accounts
Receiving Payments and Making Deposits
- Customer payments
- Making deposits
Advanced QuickBooks – $30
Learn all about taxes and payroll in this seminar. You will gain knowledge on how to apply sales tax and determine payroll tax liabilities. You will also learn how to create forms and reports easily. Here’s what will be covered:
- Entering and paying bills
- Tracking and paying sales tax
- Doing payroll with QuickBooks
- Analyzing financial data
The Basics of Bookkeeping
Learn the importance of adequate recordkeeping for business survival. In this seminar you will explore the two main uses of financial data, the nine requirements of a record-keeping system and a detailed explanation of the basic steps in the accounting cycle.
Workers’ Compensation for Health Care Providers
Basic Workers’ Compensation for Health Care Providers is designed to provide practical information to health care professionals, and system participants who are ancillary to health care delivery, to enable them to effectively participate in the Texas workers’ compensation system.
Topics to be covered include:
- Entitlement to Medical Benefits
- Doctor Roles and Responsibilities
- Return to Work and Case Management
- Treatment Guidelines
- Preauthorization
- Dispute Resolution
- Billing and reimbursement for professional services
- System monitoring and oversight
Who should attend:
- Doctors and their billing staff
- Ancillary health care providers and their billing staff
- Insurance carriers
- Claims adjusters
- Case managers
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roles and responsibilities of system participants;
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functions of the Office of Injured Employee Counsel;
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functions and services provided by the TDI-DWC to system participants;
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examination of medical and income benefits in a claim and the process of resolving disputes about those benefits; and
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how to successfully return employees to work after a workplace injury.
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Employers
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Business owners
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Managers
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Human Resources managers
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Health and Safety Officers
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Insurance Professionals
Workers’ Compensation - Overview for Texas Employers
The educational seminar will provide a comprehensive overview of the Texas workers’ compensation system and discussion of the Return-to-Work program. The educational seminar will provide information on the following topics:
Who should attend:
Advanced Marketing
Learn advanced marketing techniques, including logo creation and implementation at this seminar. You will learn strategies on how to find your target market and create an appealing logo that will enhance your company’s brand. Brand positioning and brand awareness are also discussed along with media impact on marketing efforts. Additional issues discussed include market segmentation, value perception and market research.
Web site Design, the Dos and Don'ts!
Learn the Do's and Don'ts of website design. Even if you are not planning on designing your own site, this is a great seminar for ensuring that your site is being designed professionally and effectively. Knowledge is the key to a results driven Web site. Did you know that people read text on a computer screen at about 1/4th the speed that they do on paper. This fact tells us that we should keep what we want to say on the Web short and sweet! There are many options available when creating Web pages, many good and bad. At this seminar you will learn what to avoid and what to include.
