May 8, 2008
For Immediate Release

RCCC's Small Business Center
Offers QuickBooks® Course

          CONCORD, N.C. — Small business owners looking for help with QuickBooks Pro® 2007 are invited to take a course offered by the Small Business Center (SBC) at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College.

          The SBC will offer "QuickBooks and Your Business: Level 1" Monday and Wednesday evenings, May 21 through June 4, from 6 to 9 p.m., at RCCC's Cabarrus Business & Technology Center in Concord, room 9253. Tuition is $55, with the textbook and other materials costing approximately $25.

          The course will start with an introduction to QuickBooks Pro 2007, including the accounting principles it uses. From there, students will cover working with customers, vendor transactions, and creating inventory, payroll and banking accounts. 

          Tony Phillips, a certified public accountant with 20 year of professional experience, will serve as instructor. He has a master's degree in accounting and is certified as a QuickBooks Pro advisor. The RCCC Cabarrus Business & Technology Center is located at 660 Concord Parkway North.

          The Small Business Center at RCCC is a community-based provider of education, training, counseling, information and referral, assisting entrepreneurs with business ideas and existing small business ventures. For more information about the SBC and its programs, call RCCC 704-216-3742 or 704-216-3512, send an e-mail to coned@rowancabarrus.edu, or see the SBC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu/sbc/.

           Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. RCCC offers approximately 40 programs of study in business, health and human services and engineering technologies at multiple campus locations. RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an enrollment of approximately 20,000 adult students. RCCC programs include an associate degree in arts and sciences, an associate degree in applied science, and diploma and certificate programs focusing on workforce training, continuing education and basic skills education.

           In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus, under construction in Kannapolis, N.C.

           For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.