• An overview of the differences between the accounting for brokers vs agents.
• A review of where the accounting is substantially the same.
• The “work product” that ensures you have captured everything for a listing.
• The big mistake many agents and inexperienced bookkeepers make when trying to record the transactions for agents.
• An overview of everything you will learn in these new modules.

• The trick to getting all of the agent’s expenses recorded on the books.
• Why Advertising and Marketing is so important (in case it’s not obvious)
• How to set up a new listing so you can track expenses to it.
• How to turn on the setting you need in case it isn’t there yet.
• The secret to minimizing your time spent updating the books.

• The #1 one trick to making sure your accounting is accurate.
• A little known method I've used to help 1000’s of real estate agents compile their books
• The real secret is doing this at the beginning, when most people do it after the fact. 
• In the next lesson you will learn how to sketch your transaction to tie back to this and confirm 100% accuracy.

• This is the secret to ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• I’ve created and provided a template for you to sketch the transaction.
• This ensures you haven’t missed anything, especially when you compare it to the report from the previous lesson.

• This is where it all comes together. 
• The listing has sold, and now you have to record the commissions earned and any payouts.
• In this lesson you will learn how to record everything so you have a perfect Profit and Loss for your listing.
• This is the final work product that confirms exactly how much the agent made on their listing.

• Many brokerages have caps. 
• Once that cap is met, the agent gets 100% of the commission.
• In this lesson you will learn how to use my template to track the caps and then calculate the prorated commissions on the one listing that crosses over the cap.

• Not everyone cares to track the customers - tracking listings is often sufficient.
• But if you want to track your customers, tags are the way to do it.
• In this lesson you will learn how to manage tags and use them to track your customers if you care to.

• By now you have become well acquainted with the profit and loss - listing report. 
• As you’ve learned this is much more than a report. It is a tool for compiling your financial information since so much of it centers around your listings. 
• In this lesson you will learn about additional and very useful reports.
• You will also learn how to drill around and customize your own reports to get anything you want, which you can use to serve your clients (or yourself).

A walk through of everything you need to know to get set up and started using QuickBooks Online for a real estate brokerage including each of the following main areas:

• Setup and Settings
• Chart of Accounts
• Products and Services
• Customers
• Vendors
• Bank Feeds
• Custom Fields

When you close a sale it’s time to get busy. Whichever side your representing, or maybe it’s both, you need to record the gross commission earned first. This is where many people get stuck because you’re trying to record the whole deal at once. It doesn’t work that way. Here you’ll learn how it DOES work! We’ll also show you how to handle trust funds if you receive them.

• Commission Disbursement Authorization
• Sketch it out in Google Sheets First
• Record Your Gross Commission
• Trust Accounts - Funds Received

In this module, we’ll show you how to record agent commissions (paid at the table or not) and all of the expenses listed below, plus you get a template that makes it easy to track agent caps!

• Paying Your Agents and Applying Trust Funds
• Paying Expenses
• Agent Caps
• Staging Expenses
• Royalties
• Finders Fees
• Franchise Fees

In this module, we’ll take another look at bank feeds and show you how to manage your books using the Balance Sheet as your checklist. Hint: This is how auditors verify the books they are auditing. I’ve turned their process into a checklist for you - this is how you make sure the books are bulletproof.

• Back To Bank Feeds
• Using The Balance Sheet As Your Checklist

The Balance Sheet is just one of many reports you’re going to want to get used to. In this module, I’ll show you how to set up and memorize all the reports you need to verify every deal is recorded completely and accurately along with all of your overhead.

• Balance Sheet
• Profit and Loss
• Statement of Cash Flows
• Profit and Loss for One Listing
• Profit and Loss by Agent
• Other Agent Reports

In the beginning I promised you I would show you how to “keep what you make” so that you would stop having to ask where all the money went. This is THAT module.

• How to Create a Forecast For A Real Estate Brokerage
• Manage Cash Flow - A Simple Plan

There is a lot of information that touches the accounting data, but where you will want an “app” to keep track of everything about your listings. In this module, you’ll get lessons on each of several options I recommend and how to set them up and use them.

• An Overview of Project Management for Real Estate Brokers
• QuickBooks Online Advanced - Custom Fields
• Linking to Transactions
• Airtable - Set up and manage your agents and listings with a powerful database building tool
• ClickUp - A best in class and highly customizable project management tool - How To Set It Up And Use It For Your Real Estate Brokerage
• Dynalist - The perfect tool for note taking, and to brainstorm, organize an manage lists and ideas about anything and everything

• My Google Sheets Templates will make this process so much easier for you!
• The Sketch of your listing helps you map out everything from your commissions earned to the net income you anticipate earning on the listing. 
• This is a method I've used to ensure bulletproof accuracy in your accounting.
• The Agent Caps template makes it easy to calculate your prorated commission when you hit the cap each year. 
• This is the way to do the right “bulletproof planning” which so many fail to do because they’re in a rush.
• What they don’t know is that this buys back time, because it results in fewer (if any) time costly mistakes!

• I don’t know about you, but when I start a course I know I am going to have questions.
• And I know that there is no possible way to anticipate and write a course for all of my situation-specific questions. 
• About a month after this launch I am going to hold two 90 minute live Q&A sessions.
• The idea is to accommodate different time zones, but if you can make both you are welcome to join.
• There is a catch to this:
• You have to bring the questions!
• If you show up without questions, these will be much shorter than 90 minutes. 
• My suggestion is always to dive in the minute you sign up for a course. 
• This way you build momentum in your learning process right away.
• Jot down your questions. I don’t care how simple.
• Then bring them to the live Q&A.

• I know many other programs have community support for clients.
• But I don’t think many of them give you direct access to the creator?
• This is what sets me apart from the others.
• Since Slack changed their plans, I will likely start charging a monthly subscription for this community.
• Anyone already in the community will be “grandfathered” in and won’t be asked to pay.
• This is the perfect way to complement your study process and make sure you never get stuck on anything.

• Depending on what level of service you provide to your clients, there is a lot of “accounting adjacent” data that agents need to track for their listings. 
• You would not track this information in QuickBooks Online. 
• It’s the wrong tool.
• Further it can be helpful for both the bookkeeper and the agent to have a shared system for keeping track of all of this information.
• This will likely dramatically reduce the number of questions between bookkeeper and agent. 
• I am going to provide you with two choices of apps to use and my template for how to use them for this purpose:
  
  • Airtable
  • Notion 

• This offer includes access to my BPBK for Brokers and Agents "Digital" Text Book.

• This text book has over 116 pages with detailed step by step instructions and screen shots.

• No need to remember exactly what spot in the video something was taught.

• Just reference the text book which has a complete table of contents.