How Accounting Students Can Keep on Studying Using Online Tools While Remaining in Quarantine

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Are you living in quarantine during these uncertain times like most of the world? This ‘isolation era’, as I’ve coined this period, children to elders are suffering the reduction of emotional and mental health. Students cannot even study at a quiet library, go to their favorite local coffee shop, or even meet with their study group. However, as the Northern Hemisphere reaches summer break and hotter temperatures that may aid virus transmission in social distancing situations, countries and the U.S. states are slowly going to reopen public spaces. Thank goodness that modern-day technology allows us to keep in virtual contact with friends, family, and educators. 

By March 2020, there were 200 closed U.S. schools, which means that all education is online. Even though quarantine can seem inconvenient, online learning can be challenging yet beneficial to students of various focuses while you are preparing for graduation and your future careers. Students can find an infinite amount of online tools for accounting and business administration, as you prepare for your future career as a Certified Public Account (CPA). Bookkeeping worksheets, record ledgers, mathematical modules, and instructional videos can assist you with complex mathematical topics. 

The only difference between a university student’s education is your physical environment. You can still engage with your learning, listen to lectures (even though you are online), collaborate with your educators and classmates (who become colleagues upon graduation), and use your physical textbooks and tools to take class notes. Educational change doesn’t have to be dramatic. Another benefit to online learning is free CPA coaching, advanced accounting tutoring for current college students, and finding help with accounting homework. Students can make use of this time and benefit from online education, also commonly known as e-learning. For example, future accountants and business administration managers will require flexibility in adapting client needs, potential stock market changes, and keeping track of the evolution of online tools in personal accounting and company bookkeeping. 

Below are six online tools that can be advantageous to accounting students during your university education and can continue to usage after graduation:

1. Quickbooks Online: Quickbooks is the obvious and best tool for accountants and bookkeepers. It is an accounting software package that is used to track and organize a business’s financial information, such as financial statements, balance sheets, employees’ payroll functions. Quickbook even provides cloud-based versions of the above business financial information, expenses, and profits.

2. Homeworkmarket: This an online service that connects students with tutors from all over the world. Accounting students, in particular, can post questions and have them answered and explained by tutors. 

3. Xero: Xero is a public technology who also provides cloud-based versions of accounting software programs. This year, Xero has been voted the best alternative to Quickbooks Online.

4. Accounting Coach: Accounting Coach website where students and individuals learn introductory accounting, bookkeeping, and managerial basics. Accounting Coach not only provides essential information for learners but also practices financial statements and balance sheets, informational lectures and expert simulations, and tutorial reviews for professionals.

5. Accounting Tools: Accounting Tools is an accountant website with 180 continuing professional education (CPE) courses, 48 business books, over 5000 financial articles, and their Accounting Best Practices podcast. Mainly, Accounting Tools focuses on explanations of professional accounting standards and management aspects.

6. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA): AICPA is the national professional organization and the largest member association globally of the accounting profession with more than 418,000 members in business, public practice, government, and international consulting industries. The U.S. organization sets ethical auditing standards for the CPA profession from private companies to the federal governments. It develops and grades the CPA exam and gives out credentials to globally recognized CPAs. The AICPA Website will also improve your skills, help you prepare for the CPA exam, and will provide high-quality self-study skills and webcasts to professionals.

Learning apps, tech tools, and online university education isn’t just confined to the classroom but can be taken anywhere, including multimedia lessons and live lectures. The courses that a student needs while earning a bachelor's in accounting provides a solid framework for an accounting career, everything from standard practices, analytical skills, and the use of technology in your chosen field. Online technology offers a confidential practical set of tools in future business decisions, mastering technical skills, and creating or analyzing real financial statements.  

In conclusion, you as an accounting student have numerous online study tools to benefit your continuing education in your major and towards your future career. Again, the changed type of education doesn’t have to be dramatic as you can bring your information, live lectures, and multimedia lessons wherever you go!