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Accounting Systems CPA with a Passion for Inspiring Others
Sarah T.

799 hours tutoring

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Hourly Rate: $100

About Sarah


Bio

Academically and professionally, my resume includes a variety of certifications, experience, and coursework that help me see a business through the eyes of its accounting and translate the needs of stakeholders into on-the-ground solutions.

A Master of Accounting graduate and licensed CPA, my niche is for the business-side of accounting, rather than the tax and audit work of a CPA firm. My expertise is in system implementation, ranging from small businesses using QuickBooks Online to...

Academically and professionally, my resume includes a variety of certifications, experience, and coursework that help me see a business through the eyes of its accounting and translate the needs of stakeholders into on-the-ground solutions.

A Master of Accounting graduate and licensed CPA, my niche is for the business-side of accounting, rather than the tax and audit work of a CPA firm. My expertise is in system implementation, ranging from small businesses using QuickBooks Online to publicly traded companies implementing Oracle ERP. Analyzing data in Excel, working with information systems, and programming SQL for relational database management systems is intertwined into my career of in-depth accounting knowledge.

For QuickBooks users:
I aim to bridge the gap between your expertise as a business owner and the health that your business portrays in its accounting records. I distill accounting concepts into easy-to-follow QuickBooks processes with customer-centric approach, ensuring that you have a value-add experience..

For accounting students:
Tutoring sessions aim to provide the enthusiasm and confidence that you need to excel. If journal entries are a struggle for you, content will be distilled back to its fundamentals to see how the accounting equation is impacted in each transaction, growing your understanding of accounting at a conceptual level. If you are analyzing financial statements, the perspective of the stakeholder will be adopted, to see how each metric alters the viewpoint of the business. Regardless of the task, sessions will focus on filling the gaps in your knowledge and observing content not only from its line-level detail, but up through big-picture decision making.

I look forward to working together!

Sarah
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Education

George Mason University
Accounting
College of William & Mary
Masters

Policies

  • Hourly Rate: $100
  • Rate details: Students seeking multiple lessons may enquire about discounted rates (i.e., consistent lessons during a semester).
  • Lesson cancellation: 12 hours notice required
  • No background check

  • Your first lesson is backed by our Good Fit Guarantee

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Approved Subjects

Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting

I have received extensive training in fundamental journal entries and financial statement interpretation and am comfortable helping students through the intermediate level of financial accounting.
Managerial Accounting

Managerial Accounting

Previous cost accounting experience includes working in accounting operations for a manufacturing company, where custom products added an extra layer of challenge to budgeting, assigning product cost, investigating variances, and analyzing spend. I am confident in helping students throughout various levels of management accounting courses and can bring real-life scenarios to textbook teachings.
Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

A routine part of my job involves automating and enhancing Excel capabilities by reducing the complexities of cascading spreadsheets (typically also involving an Access database to better organize our data sets). I am comfortable with more complex formulas (index/match) and some VBA, and employ many keyboard shortcuts to navigate the screen.
QuickBooks

QuickBooks

I am a CPA and Certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor specializing in helping businesses with their accounting information systems. I aim to bridge the gap between your expertise as a business owner and the health that your business portrays in its accounting records. I distill accounting concepts into easy-to-follow QuickBooks processes with customer-centric approach, ensuring that you have a value-add experience. Niches include: initial QBO setup; cleaning up disorganized records; and establishing efficient workflow practices.
Writing

Writing

Many of my roles have involved extensive communication with stakeholders and I am sought out on my team to form well crafted communication in those scenarios. I uphold the proper business writing tenant of relaying details in as much thoroughness as deemed proper, without overburdening on unnecessary verbiage.

Examples of Expertise


Sarah has provided examples of their subject expertise by answering 1 question submitted by students on Wyzant’s Ask an Expert.

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Ratings and Reviews


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Quickbooks Master!

Sarah was very patient and knowledgeable as she helped me straighten out my small business's books on QBO. I learned a lot, and got the job done! Her professional accounting background separated her from other QBO enthusiasts I have encountered before. She truly understands the more in depth aspects of accounting, beyond simply categorizing things as income and expenses. Thanks Sarah!

Ronald, 1 lesson with Sarah

Great tutor

Sarah is very intuitive. During our sessions Sarah is always a step ahead, predicting your next question and helping you answer it yourself. Sarah quickly ran through all my questions and gave additional information about why certain steps were needed. A side bonus is Sarah is pleasant and has a sense of humor, which makes the process enjoyable.

Greg, 5 lessons with Sarah

Extremely knowledgeable and very easy to work with

In an hour Sarah helped me with all my Quickbook issues (after literally about 24 cumulative hours of frustration with Quickbooks tutorials and tech support). She was very easy to understand and extremely knowledgeable. I will definitely call on her again.

Anne, 1 lesson with Sarah

Super patient!

Sarah was amazing at walking me through and helping me fix things that I input incorrectly. My books are all cleaned up after 2 sessions and I will definitely reach out to her again in the future when needed!

Amanda, 2 lessons with Sarah

A great experience!

I was transitioning from Quickbooks desktop to Quickbooks on line and Sarah help me get familiar with using QB Online so that I could get up and running in one class. She is very patient, very knowledgeable and easy to follow along with. I am looking forward to another class with Sarah to further educate myself with using QB online.

Natalie, 4 lessons with Sarah

Very attentive and knowledgeable

Patiently explained the inner workings of QuickBooks so that I could establish an efficient workflow and understand how each feature function, tutoring with her was much better than piecing together YouTube videos.

Andy, 1 lesson with Sarah

Very knowledgeable & helpful

Sarah was very knowledgeable with Quickbooks. She listened to the way that I've been utilizing (or not utilizing) features of Quickbooks Online and showed me how to implement them.

Kurt, 2 lessons with Sarah

Quickbooks online tutoring!!

Sarah level of knowledge base on Quickbooks is mind blowing on how much she knows and her ability to have patience with me in her guidance throughout the software was breathtaking. Her patience level and calmness helped me focus on what I need to pay attention to and take it step-by-step. I had three issues that took me countless hours to solve on my own and pulling my hair out at the same time along with high stress levels. Immediately, Sarah addressed each problem I had with Quickbooks online and showed me how to proceed with certain transactions and how to navigate through the tool bar as well. She is so easy to understand and follow plus blends everything I had issues with perfectly together and makes logical sense. She opened my eyes to the bigger picture so there's clarity. She was beyond professional, calm, knowledge base on Quickbooks is excellent and very helpful by closing the tutor session successfully. All my three problems were addressed, showed me so I can understand why I made the mistakes and how to correct them. Those who need one-on-one assistance with Quickbooks online, STOP your search for any tutors on Wyzant and go with Sarah Taylor. She will turn your frustrations, stress levels and hours of wasted time on your own into one hour session of learning the majority of the basics in Quickbooks without any high level of anxiety. My total hours of watching Youtube Videos and Google the topic of question was helpful to an certain extent BUT nothing like having the full one-on-one tutor session with Sarah getting you educated and ready to go into Quickbooks. Going forward, she is my person for all my tutorial needs with Quickbooks because that one hour has saved me hours of wasted time. You want the best education experience in solving your concerns with Quickbooks then Sarah Taylor is the only person in my eyes that can guide you and properly educated you with the software. She's amazing and looking forward in working with Sarah again in the near future or sooner. Best of luck to everyone:) Veronica Matthew

Veronica , 3 lessons with Sarah

Financial Statement Preparation

Sarah is awesome! She genuinely wants to help students understand accounting. She was patient and helped build my confidence, and I now have the knowledge to prepare statement statements.

Felipe, 3 lessons with Sarah

Sarah is very attentive person and professional.

Sarah quickly understands the content of the question and helps to complete the task or solve the problem. She explains easily and the result is super, I am happy to meet such wonderful and professional person as she is!!!

Ekaterina, 3 lessons with Sarah
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