QuickBooks & Modern Bookkeeping Tools

A coach that teaches by asking — not by lecturing

The Lighthouse Coach is an AI Socratic coach built on Cognosco Learning's QuickBooks & Modern Bookkeeping Tools course, in the Sales, Service & Revenue category. It does not play videos at you. It holds a conversation: it asks you a question, listens to your answer, names the misconception it hears, affirms what you got right, and asks the next question — the way a great coach works in the room.

This course is for bookkeepers and office managers who keep a small business's books inside bookkeeping software day to day, owners and founders who work in the file themselves or sign what it produces, administrative and finance assistants moving into bookkeeping responsibility, and keepers moving between tools — from spreadsheets, from paper, or from a different program.

It works in the order the tool itself demands: first, Module 1 — The File and the Daily Workflows — work through Concepts 1–9, finishing with October, Worked and Proved; then, Module 2 — Proof, Close, and Cleanup — work through Concepts 10–18, finishing with The October Close.

You finish by proving the whole course — in October, Worked and Proved and in The October Close. You can type your answers, or talk out loud: the Voice Coach speaks its questions and listens to your spoken replies, hands-free. Explaining a reconciliation, defending a tax figure, and walking an owner through a month-end are spoken acts, and the course treats them that way.

The course is self-paced and always on — roughly 30 minutes per concept, about 9 hours in full, taken in as many sittings as you like. Learners who already know the material can test out concept by concept.

You learn on one business, for one full month, inside its file: Sunfield Garden & Landscape Co., a garden center and landscaping business whose complete October you set up, work, prove, and close. Every figure in the course can be traced back to the opening position stated at the start and checked with a pencil — if a number appears, you can rebuild it. That is not a burden the course places on you. It is the habit the course exists to build.

You run the complete daily work — invoicing, payments, and deposits that match the bank's reality; bills and bill payments you can prove; a bank feed examined item by item — and then the finish: reconciliation to the dollar, the sales-tax position, the payroll landing, reports read before they are sent, and a locked month handed over whole.

Both capstones produce real artifacts — the proved October workflow package, and the October close package: the reconciliation, the tax and payroll positions, the released reports with their findings, and the handover packet — written to be usable on the real job, not just filed in the course.

This is the one hundred and sixty-seventh course in The Lighthouse Signature Series — the online counterpart to the one-day, in-person learning Cognosco Learning has delivered since 2002.