QBO Dojo gives bookkeepers realistic Practice Clients to work through in QuickBooks Online, plus free learning, peer community, and live client simulation. Choose a business that interests you and put your skills to work.
There is a gap between learning bookkeeping and being responsible for somebody else's books. Courses and certifications provide knowledge. Client work introduces unfamiliar facts, context, ambiguity, judgment, imperfect source information, reconciliation, and consequences.
Many aspiring bookkeepers complete training, watch demonstrations, earn QuickBooks certification, and understand bookkeeping concepts, and still hesitate when they are responsible for deciding what to do inside an unfamiliar company file.
QBO Dojo gives bookkeepers a realistic place to work through what to do. The free Learning Library teaches the concepts; Practice Clients give you somewhere realistic to apply what you already know. We don’t walk you through every click. We give you the client, the records, and the objective, and the decisions are yours.
Understand the bookkeeping concepts first. Free lessons, explanations, and exercises build the knowledge behind the work before you take on a client.
Start Free in the Learning LibraryTake on a simulated business, work through its books at your own pace, and make the bookkeeping decisions yourself. Use the included Practice Review to check your work.
Browse Practice ClientsStep into an active client relationship. Live Client Simulation adds ongoing client behavior, follow-up, and an Applied Bookkeeping Belt assessment on top of the practice work.
Explore Live SimulationYou are not just reviewing transactions. You step into an unfamiliar business and work the books yourself, from the first source document to a finished, explained set of books.
Pick an industry and challenge level that interests you. You start with a simulated client you have never seen and read the situation before you touch the books.
Your client brief gives business context and starting information, plus import-ready materials and supporting records to bring the client into QuickBooks Online.
Set up a separate QuickBooks company, follow the included import guidance, then categorize, match, and post the activity yourself. The bookkeeping decisions are yours to make.
Look into anything that does not add up, bring the accounts through reconciliation, and stand behind a finished set of books you can explain.
Compare your completed books to the intended accounting result in the Practice Review. Files must be downloaded within 30 days of purchase; keep your own copies and work at your own pace.
Representative examples. The exact material mix reflects the client, industry, and practice level. The 90 days describes the client’s business activity, not your access window.
Fieldstone Design Studio. Excerpts from a simulated practice client.
Some things in the records will not be obvious from the paperwork alone. If a transaction could reasonably be treated more than one way, or there is nothing on file to say what it was for, please ask rather than guess. We would rather answer a question than correct a return.
Where your answer differs from what is written here, look for the evidence rather than for permission. Several treatments below are marked as also defensible, and real bookkeeping has more than one right answer more often than a graded exercise admits.
Each client starts with a business story: what it sells, how it gets paid, what it owes, and the bookkeeping decisions its records will raise. That scenario becomes 90 days of simulated business activity, with a Client Brief, importable records, statements, and supporting documents.
Before release, accounting and package checks compare the transactions, statements, source records, and Practice Review for agreement. The customer PDFs and download package are also inspected for identity, dates, readability, and completeness. The Practice Review gives you the intended accounting outcome to compare with your own work after you finish.
Each monthly release is another chance to practice with distinct, unfamiliar businesses, including another client in an industry you have already worked.
Westward Windshield Repair brings glass replacement and chip repairs to the customer's car. Drivers pay at the curb, while a dealership and rental-car branch receive invoices. The owner is in her first quarter, with startup purchases, a poorly documented refund and payment fees to work through. Build her books from the records behind the mobile business.
Studios, schools and art stores rely on Copperleaf Ceramics Supply for clay, glaze and kiln parts. Its bookkeeper left in August without ever reconciling the accounts. Combined payments, partial receipts and a growing stack of supplier records now land on your desk. Take over the quarter and investigate what the existing books have missed.
One building houses two busy teams at Aldergrove Sports Medicine Partners. Clinic appointments and athletic programs bring different streams of income, while equipment financing and three unreconciled accounts complicate the picture. You inherit the quarter and the history behind it. Reconstruct a reliable opening position and bring both sides of the practice into focus.
Quillfeather Editorial Services is a new independent practice serving publishers, a university press and self-publishing authors. Manuscripts are invoiced on terms, while online assessments are paid by card. Build the first quarter of a small professional business where customer fees, owner funding, mixed deposits and transfers all arrive in the same set of records.
Every standard Practice Client covers 90 days of business activity. White, Orange, and Black Belt describe increasing bookkeeping complexity, not duration. Practice Client belts are difficulty labels, not credentials. Applied Bookkeeping Belts are earned only through Live Client Simulation.
Choose a belt to browse that level’s Practice Clients.
Clearer client facts, lower transaction volume, fewer interacting workflows, and more direct bookkeeping decisions.
More activity, greater workflow interaction, additional ambiguity, more active A/R and A/P, and more bookkeeping judgment.
Greater complexity, more interconnected activity, increased ambiguity, more difficult reconciliation, and broader feature requirements.
Take on all three 90-Day Practice Clients in the same industry: White Belt, Orange Belt, and Black Belt. $247 purchased separately. $197 as a set. Save $50.
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