Become a Qualified Entrepreneurial Professional

Are you interested in starting your own business? Academy of Learning’s Entrepreneurial Business Applications program gets you trained and on your path to a rewarding career through hands-on training and the support from dedicated instructors.

From bookkeeping to management to accounting software, this program gives you the skills you need to help turn your dream of self-employment into a reality.

AOLCC’s Entrepreneurial Business Applications diploma program develops the business-related skills that can lead to employment in the private and public sectors and be used to op erate a small business of your own.

Our curriculum provides skill-building and practical training through relevant core courses, delivered through our innovative Integrated Learning System™ (ILS).

Economic Outlook

With an entrepreneurial spirit, passion and commitment, you can create your own opportunities in an industry that you love. The need for workers with strong business skil ls is consistent and working as part of a team gives you invaluable real-world insight into how to run a business of your own.

Career Opportunities

This program provides a strong knowledge of business applications and principles that can be used to launch your own business or work in a management capacit y in small businesses of any type.

Program Outcomes

Our program will prepare you to:

  • Use Microsoft programs to maintain busine ss correspondence, create word processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, manage databases and format workbooks
  • Perform office duties such as basic banki ng, records management, managing postal and courier services, maintaining computerized filing systems, inventory and databases
  • Use Sage 50 Premium Accounting to manage budgets, consolidate financials, track projects and streamline operations
  • Provide quality customer service in all a reas, including correspondence, phone calls, emails and in-person meetings

Program Outline

  • Keyboarding

    Minimum 10 words per minute (WPM)

  • Operating Systems

    Advanced level of proficiency in a Windows operating system

  • Word Processing

    Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Word

  • Spreadsheets

    Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel

  • Graphics/Presentation

    Basic level of proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Publisher

  • Data Management

    Basic level of proficiency in Microsoft Access

  • Accounting

    Sage 50 Premium Accounting

  • Simulations and Drills

    Practical Applications – 3 Units

  • Office Skills

    Personal Computer Fundamentals for End Users, Internet Fundamentals, Basic Bookkeeping Levels 1 and 2, and basic level of proficiency in Microsoft Outlook

  • Business Skills

    Customer Service, Marketing and Sales, Grammar Essentials for Business Writing, Business Correspondence Levels 1 and 2, Business Planning, Management Fundamentals , and Business Math

  • Job Readiness/Employability Skills

    Thought Patterns For A Successful Career