Educationally, I have an MBA from San Francisco State U, a BA and PhD from Berkeley, and completed coursework on another doctorate in accounting and finance from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. I have over 20 years of teaching experience at the college level as well as extensive one-to-one experience tutoring bookkeepers and accountants in accounting, bookkeeping and QuickBooks (desktop and online). I taught Financial and Managerial accounting at UC Santa Cruz extension as well as Managerial Finance and the national certification course in Bookkeeping. I also taught seminars in bookkeeping and QuickBooks (desktop and online). I love helping students achieve results in their learning experiences, and love learning myself. Each teaching experience offers the opportunity for learning more, as we work together to achieve a quality learning experience.

I am a practicing accountant with a rich depth of experience (682 projects in the last 20 years). I offer experience in a wide variety of situations and can answer questions about the kinds of problems and solutions you'll encounter as a professional as well an prepare you for test problem sets as a student. My tutoring/teaching experience not only covers teaching the subject formally, but informal one-on-one sessions with bookkeepers and accountants actually trying to master the material for a particular job or problem, as well as in a course.

I have been an Advanced Certified QuickBooks Proadvisor in desktop and QuickBooks Online for many years. My certifications are current and require that I pass tests each year to update my knowledge of the software. Again I have both practical experience in solving problems, and teaching seminars and tutoring one-on-one. I am also an IT engineer and am quite comfortable with the versions of QB software, cloud technology, Quickbooks compatible applications, as well as advanced uses of Excel with QB. I have worked in all versions of QuickBooks and have the practical experience to help my students become ver