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What you will learn

  • Bookkeeping fundamentals: debits, credits and the chart of accounts
  • QuickBooks Online setup and daily bookkeeping, including Intuit Assist
  • Sage 50 (Peachtree) for small and mid-size firms
  • TallyPrime for trading and inventory businesses
  • Sales tax invoices and FBR digital invoicing, with AI-assisted invoice checks
  • Bank reconciliation with Copilot in Excel and in accounting software
  • Payroll basics and salary records
  • Financial reports, summarised and explained with Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
  • Data privacy: what financial data never goes into an AI tool

Is it for you

Who this course is for

  • Commerce and business students who want the software and AI skills accounts job ads now ask for.
  • Graduates applying for bookkeeping, accounts assistant or junior accountant roles.
  • Working bookkeepers who keep books by hand or in Excel and want real software with AI to speed up the checking.
  • Small business owners who want to understand, check and question their own books.

Syllabus

What each module covers

Bookkeeping Foundations with an AI Tutor

Debits, credits, double entry and the chart of accounts that every accounting package is built on. You record a month of transactions for a small Pakistani shop in Excel and prepare a trial balance. When an entry confuses you, Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini explains it, and you check that answer against the double-entry rule before you accept it.

QuickBooks Setup

Creating a company file in QuickBooks Online: chart of accounts, opening balances, customers, vendors, products and tax settings. You ask an AI assistant to propose a chart of accounts for a practice trading business, cut it down to what the business really needs, and learn which settings are hard to change once real transactions are in.

Daily Bookkeeping and AI Categorisation

Recording sales, purchases, expenses, receipts and payments, and tracking what customers owe and what you owe suppliers. You try Intuit Assist, the AI assistant built into QuickBooks, and draft bank categorisation rules with Claude or ChatGPT. Then you review every suggested category by hand, because a wrong rule repeats the same mistake all month.

Sage 50 (Peachtree)

Working in Sage 50, still widely called Peachtree in Pakistan: company setup, journals, receivables, payables and inventory. You re-enter part of your QuickBooks month in Sage 50 and use an AI assistant to map one system’s account names onto the other, then correct the mapping wherever it guessed wrong.

TallyPrime

Vouchers, ledgers, stock items and inventory in TallyPrime, a common choice for trading and distribution firms. You set up a small distributor’s books, record purchases and sales with stock, and produce a stock summary. AI turns that summary into a short reorder note for the owner, which you check line by line against the stock figures.

Invoicing and FBR Digital Invoicing

Creating correct sales tax invoices, credit notes and payment terms, and how FBR’s digital invoicing rules require registered businesses to report invoices through a licensed integrator. An AI assistant reads scanned invoices and lists their fields. You then compare each field with FBR’s requirements yourself, since the AI can misread a number or miss a field.

Reconciliation and Payroll with Copilot in Excel

Matching bank statements to the books and running basic payroll with salary records and deductions. You use Copilot in Excel to write lookup formulas, flag unmatched items and summarise differences across two months of statements. Every match is confirmed against the statement itself, and the payroll sheet shows each deduction in plain view.

Reporting, AI Privacy and Month-End Project

Closing a month and producing a profit and loss statement, balance sheet and cash flow summary. AI drafts the plain-language summary and the covering email to the owner; you correct the figures and the tone. You also set rules for AI use: remove names, bank and CNIC numbers before you paste anything, and check each tool’s data settings.

Tools

What you will use

  • QuickBooks Online (with Intuit Assist)
  • Sage 50 (Peachtree)
  • TallyPrime
  • Microsoft Excel with Copilot
  • Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini

Before you start

What you need to know first

No accounting background needed; the course starts with bookkeeping basics. Comfort with Excel helps. You need a laptop or desktop, a stable internet connection and a free Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini account. Copilot in Excel needs an eligible Microsoft 365 plan, so check yours before you start.

Format

How this course runs

Live online, taught in English. Tiers run from a 2-day Crash to a 60-day Pro, plus a Bootcamp of 45 to 90 days.

Mentors

Who teaches this course?

AI-Powered Accounting is taught by mentors who do this work for clients or employers. They review your projects and answer your questions. See their roles, credentials and LinkedIn profiles, and how every SkillsVerx course is taught.

Batches

Upcoming batches

Batch dates are announced soon. Register your interest and we will reach out on WhatsApp as soon as a new batch opens.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Which accounting software does the course teach?

The course is built around QuickBooks Online, with dedicated modules on Sage 50 (Peachtree) and TallyPrime, since Pakistani employers commonly ask for one of the three. You also use Excel with Copilot for checks and reconciliation, AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, and cover FBR digital invoicing.

Crash covers one package over a weekend, while Track and Pro cover all three. Compare the five tiers or read our accounting articles.

How is AI used in the accounting course?

AI does the first pass and you do the checking. Copilot in Excel writes formulas, flags unmatched bank items and summarises data. Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini explain transactions, draft categorisation rules, read invoices, summarise statements and draft client emails. Every figure is confirmed against the source document before it reaches the books.

Microsoft lists formulas, summaries and outlier spotting among Copilot’s Excel features, and it depends on your Microsoft 365 plan (Microsoft, get started with Copilot in Excel). Intuit describes Intuit Assist as a generative AI assistant inside QuickBooks, with features that differ by product and plan (QuickBooks global site).

Is it safe to put financial data into AI tools?

Only after you strip out what identifies people and accounts. Google asks Gemini users not to enter confidential information they would not want a reviewer to see (Gemini Apps privacy notice), and Anthropic uses Claude chats for training only if you allow it (Anthropic Privacy Center). The course teaches you to anonymise data, check each tool’s settings and follow the client’s own rules.

Which accounting software is used in Pakistan?

QuickBooks, Sage 50 (Peachtree) and Tally are the names that come up again and again in Pakistani bookkeeping and accounts job ads, alongside Excel. Larger companies often run ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, but most small and mid-size firms use one of the first three.

For a closer look at who uses what, read which accounting software is actually used in Pakistan.

Is an accounting software course worth it?

It is worth it if you want bookkeeping or accounts work, or run your own business. Employers want people who can keep clean books in real software from day one, and AI has made the checking skill more valuable, not less. A course that has you close a full month in QuickBooks, Sage 50 and TallyPrime gives you work you can demonstrate in an interview.

Do I need an accounting or finance background to start?

No. The course opens with bookkeeping foundations, debits, credits and the chart of accounts, before any software, so no prior accounting background is assumed. Basic comfort with Excel helps, and a free AI assistant account is useful for asking questions as you learn.

Does the course cover FBR digital invoicing?

Yes, at a practical level. FBR requires notified sales-tax-registered businesses to connect their invoicing systems to FBR through a licensed integrator, with PRAL offering integration free of charge (FBR digital invoicing FAQs). You learn what a compliant invoice must contain and use AI to check invoices against it, with a person making the final call. Tax advice for a specific business stays with a qualified tax adviser.

Is Peachtree the same as Sage 50?

Yes. Peachtree Accounting was rebranded as Sage 50 in 2013 (Sage 50 on Wikipedia), but many Pakistani employers still call it Peachtree in job ads. If an ad asks for Peachtree, Sage 50 skills are what it means, and the course teaches the current version.

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