TRABAC

Are You Good With Numbers?

Consider the Outreach TRABAC Program:

Training Responsible Adults to be Bookkeeping

and Accounting Clerks

• 26 weeks
• 30 hours per week

includes Internship and Job Search & Placement

Training includes the following skills & services:

• Introduction to Bookkeeping/Accounting
• Payroll Procedures
• Business Math/Adding Machines
• Financial Literacy
• Computerized Accounting: QuickBooks
• Business Writing
• Computer Skills — Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
• Attitudinal and Employment Counseling
• Office Skills and Keyboarding
• Employability Skills: Applications, Resumes, Cover Letters, Job Search and Interviewing
• Internet, Communication, and Life-coping Skills

Who is Eligible?

• 18 years of age or older
• Fluent in English
• High School Diploma or GED
• Unemployed/dislocated, underemployed workers
• Students motivated to learn new skills and accept a job

This program prepares students for entry level clerical and bookkeeping positions with job titles such as accounting clerk, posting clerk, accounts receivable clerk, payroll clerk, or bookkeeper.

The course will give students who have minimal or no previous knowledge of accounting a basic understanding of accounting / bookkeeping principles and procedures used to record, classify, and summarize financial data. Students will become familiar with accounting terminology, financial records, forms, and statements used in business today. In addition, the program includes in-office training and computer skills, business math, and job developing.

The program prepares students for a broad range of manual and computerized accounting and bookkeeping functions, including preparation and maintenance of ledgers, journals, adjusting and closing entries, basic financial statements, cash and banking procedures, payroll, and accounts payable and receivable.

RIC Outreach Programs are available to Rhode Island clients of Department of Labor & Training, Rhode Island Works and Office of Rehabilitative Service participants in need of training and employment.

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Rhode Island College
Office of Outreach Programs

600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue
East Campus-Bldg. 8
Providence, RI 02908

Jenifer Giroux, Interim Director
Dawne Pezzuco, Assistant Director

For Information Contact:
Vidal DeLaCruz Counselor/Recruitment (Spanish)

Phone: (401) 456-8698
Fax: (401) 456-8582

Page updated: Thursday, April 16, 2009

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