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Best 6 Bookkeeping Certification Training Courses Of 2024
Pro Tip
Ensure the school offering your bookkeeping certification program is accredited by a recognized accrediting body. Accreditation guarantees the school meets specific quality standards and is recognized by employers as well as that earned credits are transferable.
An online bookkeeping certification course can enhance your professional profile, making you more competitive in the job market. It allows you to develop the skills needed to advance your bookkeeping skills, from handling financial statements to dealing with tax regulations and more. Certification also adds credibility to your résumé, assuring employers that you've met specific standards and are qualified to perform bookkeeping tasks accurately and efficiently.
However, you'll need to consider whether an online program suits your learning style, schedule and budget. It's also essential to choose the right program if you plan to earn official licensure and certification. Here are some important factors to keep in mind as you weigh your options:
In addition to the factors above, you'll also need to determine what certification or licensing you want to pursue. Two major credentialing bodies that offer nationally recognized certification or licensure are the NACPB and the AIPB. Each organization has its own set of requirements.
Other credentialing bodies include PayrollOrg (PAYO) and the Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation (ACAT).
Not all online bookkeeping certification programs include exam preparation for these agencies. Researching and selecting a program explicitly mentioning exam preparation for the specific certifications you're interested in pursuing is essential. This will ensure that you're adequately prepared for the exams required by the NACPB, AIPB and other agencies.
Eat Like An Olympian: Fuel Your Performance With The Right Nutrition
When we watch the world's best athletes perform in the Olympic Games, we might focus on the hours of physical training they endure to rise to their level of competition. But often overlooked is an equally important component of an Olympian's life: nutrition.
Eating like an Olympian means more than just consuming the right number of calories. Understanding what, when, and how to eat for the demands of your particular sport can give your body the fuel it needs to perform at its best.
While specific dietary requirements will depend on the type of sport you play, in general, athletes' bodies demand more energy to power them through their training regimens and help them recover.
"An athlete will usually need 50 to 70 percent of their caloric intake to come from carbohydrate food sources, (the main fuel source for our brain and muscles)," says Lucy Mower, MS, RDN, CD, an outpatient clinical dietitian at University of Utah Health. "Individuals involved in high-level athletic training also require increased protein to support their recovery as well as fluid to replace fluids and electrolytes lost during training."
All athletes will need the following in some capacity, but how much they need will depend on their training and competition regimen.
These are the main sources of energy for the body, so athletes need to make sure they are consuming plenty of carbohydrates to provide energy as fuel for training sessions and competitions. Examples of high-quality carbohydrates include:
Protein is important for muscle repair and recovery and helps promote muscle growth. Proteins also help keep us full and sustain us between meals. Examples of good protein sources include:
Intense exercise causes the body to produce free radicals. Antioxidants neutralize these free radicals, which reduce muscle soreness and fatigue. Foods that contain high amounts of antioxidants include:
Along with being an energy source that will keep you satiated for long periods of time, healthy fats also protect our organs and help our body absorb other nutrients like vitamins A, D, E, and K. Foods that are a source of healthy fat include:
Proper hydration for athletes is critical. As you sweat, you lose fluids and electrolytes. Drinking plenty of water before, during, and after physical activity is the best option for adequate hydration, but other sources include:
To perform your best, keep track of your dietary intake, training, and recovery in a journal or log to help you learn what fueling methods work best for you.
"There is no one-size-fits-all approach for fueling," Mower says. "It's important to experiment with fueling techniques recommended according to activity level, and fueling should be adjusted according to your training schedule and overall health and well-being."
Waging War On Modern Agriculture And Global Nutrition
The World Economic Forum says the world faces a new crisis, "One-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production." With the world's population expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050, it is therefore "urgent" that we launch a "radical" and "comprehensive" transformation of the global food system – from "reinventing" farming to "reimagining" how food is produced, processed, distributed, consumed and disposed of.
Reinforcing this message, Stop Ecocide Now founder Jojo Mehta expanded on Greta Thunberg's incendiary 2020 rant that "our house is on fire and you're fueling the flames." Farming is a "serious crime," equal to "genocide," Ms. Mehta told elites at the 2024 WEF meeting in Davos.
Their grasp of agriculture is epitomized by Michael Bloomberg's suggestion that anybody can be a farmer: "You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes the corn."
Modern farming and its supposedly dangerous greenhouse gas emissions are a tad more complicated.
Modern mechanized farming employs oil derivatives as fuel for equipment and feed stocks for herbicides and pesticides, natural gas to dry grain and make fertilizers, and livestock to provide protein.
Tractors, trucks, farmers and livestock emit carbon dioxide, adding to the 0.04% of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere (equivalent to $40 of $100,000). Cattle emissions add methane to the existing 0.0002% CH4 in the atmosphere (20¢ of $100,000). Nitrogen fertilizers add to the "dramatic" 200-year rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), bringing it to a still minuscule 0.00003% (that's 3¢ of $100,000).
These emissions allegedly drive "cataclysmic" climate change and extreme weather, endangering all life on Earth. But then what caused five Ice Ages (including the Pleistocene Era and its mile-high glaciers, which ended 12,000 years ago), the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods, and the Little Ice Age (1350-1850) to come and go?
Of course, natural forces can't drive climate hysteria and WEF-Gore-Biden anti-fossil-fuel agendas. Fear-mongering political, activist, media and academic elites therefore ignore them.
In the Real World, the wondrous reality is that, after centuries of excruciatingly slow progress, agricultural advances over the past 75 years have been nothing short of astonishing. Dr. Norman Borlaug's Green Revolution employed plant breeding techniques that multiplied yields of vital grain crops, saving hundreds of millions of lives.
Since 1950, American farmers increased per-acre corn yields by an incredible 500% and other crop yields by smaller but still amazing amounts – while using used less land, water and fuel … and fewer fertilizers and pesticides per ton of produce. Their exports helped slash global hunger and malnutrition even further.
Meanwhile, despite supposed impacts from manmade climate change, farmers in Brazil, India and many other countries have also enjoyed record harvests.
Multiple miracle technologies contributed. Hybrid seeds combine valuable traits from different related plants. Biotech seeds protect crops against voracious insects and destructive viruses, while reducing water and pesticide demand. Virus-resistant biotech cultivars have even replaced endangered papayas in Hawaii, cassava and bananas in Africa, and other crops.
Nitrogen (ammonia) fertilizers, synthesized from natural gas and atmospheric nitrogen, have joined phosphorus and potassium in supercharging soils. Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide spurs plant growth and reduces water demand even further.
Long-lasting herbicides control weeds that would otherwise steal moisture and nutrients from crops – and enable farmers to utilize no-till farming that avoids breaking up soils, reduces erosion, retains soil moisture and preserves vital soil organisms.
Technologies developed in Israel make it possible to grow an amazing array of crops in the Negev and Arava Deserts, which receive a fraction of the annual rainfall that Arizona gets. Desalination plants turn seawater into 80% of Israel's drinking water, dramatically reducing pressure on the Sea of Galilee, manmade reservoirs and groundwater supplies.
Israelis then recycle 90% of their home, business, school and hospital water – for use in agriculture, where drip irrigation delivers precise amounts of water precisely where crops and other plants need it, minimizing evaporation.
Huge high-tech tractors use GPS systems, sensors and other equipment to steer precise courses across fields, while constantly measuring soil composition, and injecting just the right kinds and amounts of fertilizers and herbicides, along with seeds, to ensure optimal harvests.
Not all these technologies are available across the globe. However, farmer can access information about both the technologies and the modern practices through online libraries and programs on cell phones.
Instead, this progress is under assault – by ill-advised or ill-intended, but well-funded organizations that want to turn the Green Revolution into Green Tyranny, Eco-Imperialism and global malnutrition.
Their hatred of biotech crops is intense and well-documented. But many also despise hybrid seeds. They want modern herbicides and insecticides banned, in favor of "natural" alternatives – which are often toxic to bees, fish, other animals and people and have not been tested for long-term harm to humans.
These agricultural anarchists also demand "natural" fertilizers, which typically provide a fraction of the nutrients that modern synthetic fertilizers do. At the very least, they want global organic farming, which would mean much lower crop yields per acre than conventional farming, and plowing many millions of additional acres of wildlife habitat and scenic land, to get the same amounts of food.
They say people in Africa, Asia and Latin America should practice subsistence farming – which they prefer to call "traditional" farming, Agro-Ecology, "food sovereignty," or the "right to choose" "culturally appropriate" food produced through "ecologically sound and sustainable methods," based on "indigenous agricultural knowledge and practices."
In plain English, Agro-Ecology is rabidly opposed to biotechnology, monoculture farming, non-organic fertilizers, chemical pesticides, and even mechanized equipment and hybrid seeds.
You can imagine how Agro-Ecologists would react if African farmers wanted to assert their food sovereignty, self-determination and right to choose by planting biotech Bt corn, to get higher yields, reduce pesticide use, enjoy better living standards and send their kids to school. The agro-anarchists would vilify them as vile supporters of violence against women, land-grabbing corporations, expropriation of indigenous rights, genocide and other "crimes against humanity."
They also promote "alternative protein." They say Africa would be "the perfect laboratory" for testing new foods – such as "crackers, muffins, meat loaves and sausages" made from lake flies. In fact, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Popular Science magazine and many other outfits extol the virtues of "entomophagy" – the clever progressive term for eating bug burgers, instead of hamburgers.
They even offer recipes and techniques for processing "edible insects" into tasty, nutritious products that can improve diets and livelihoods, create thriving local businesses, and even promote inclusion of women. In fact, they say, bugs can have twice as much protein per pound as beef; grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, beetles, ants and cicadas make great snacks, desserts, guacamole and even entire meals; and mealworms have "an earthy flavor, similar to mushrooms," making them excellent additions to brownies. Sautéed with a little salt, mealworms also make "protein-boosted potato chips." Yummy!
Who are these guys – these agriculture and nutrition anarchists and revolutionaries? Stay tuned.
photo by Ark. Agricultural Experiment Station. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.
Paul DriessenPaul Driessen is a senior policy advisor with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.
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