Events/Workshops

Business Start-up seminar

Speaker: Brady Hoggan

Topics include rewards and drawbacks of business ownership, business entry strategies, legal and regulatory compliance, business planning, choosing a form of business ownership, debt and equity financing, and sources of business assistance.

Speaker: Lowell Baggaley

Entrepreneurial success begins with this FREE two-hour seminar on how to start a business. Topics covered include: rewards & drawbacks of business ownership, business entry strategies, business planning, legal & regulatory requirements, forms of business ownership, sources of business financing, and sources of business assistance.

Speaker: Camille Pendleton

Business Start-up seminar

Speaker: Brady Hoggan

Business Start-up seminar

Speaker: Brady Hoggan

Topics include rewards and drawbacks of business ownership, business entry strategies, legal and regulatory compliance, business planning, choosing a form of business ownership, debt and equity financing, and sources of business assistance.

Speaker: Lowell Baggaley

THIS CLASS WILL BE HELD AT SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-MILLER CAMPUS. Twelve 3-hour sessions. Developing Your Family Child Care Business is a facilitator-led interactive learning process for individuals wanting to launch and grow successful family child care businesses. The program covers topics that help participants think and act as business owners. The unique combination of business and industry-specific information has a proven track record of assisting individuals in developing and sustaining more successful businesses. NOTE: Scholarships available for qualifying businesses which could reduce the total cost of the course substantially! Reserve your spot now, and we'll call you to discuss qualifications for the scholarship. Facilitator: Carrie Menzel Fee: $495 (see pricing information by clicking on the class heading) Will be held at SLCC Miller Campus: 9750 South 300 West, MPDC Rm 220, Sandy, UT. For further information, call 801-957-5240. Please Note: Class start date may change.

THIS CLASS WILL BE HELD AT SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE-MILLER CAMPUS. Twelve 3-hour sessions. Developing Your Family Child Care Business is a facilitator-led interactive learning process for individuals wanting to launch and grow successful family child care businesses. The program covers topics that help participants think and act as business owners. The unique combination of business and industry-specific information has a proven track record of assisting individuals in developing and sustaining more successful businesses. NOTE: Scholarships available for qualifying businesses which could reduce the total cost of the course substantially! Reserve your spot now, and we'll call you to discuss qualifications for the scholarship. Facilitator: Carrie Menzel Fee: $495 (see pricing information by clicking on the class heading) Will be held at SLCC Miller Campus: 9750 South 300 West, MPDC Rm 220, Sandy, UT. For further information, call 801-957-5240. Please Note: Class start date may change.

This class is cosponsored between Zion’s Bank, Squire and Company CPA firm, and the Small Business Development Center at UVU. This class will get you up and running with the QuickBooks Small Business Accounting Program for the first time user; and will hone your QuickBooks skills for those who have been using the program for some time. This class will cover: getting you started, working with lists, working with bank accounts, entering sales and invoices, and entering and paying bills. If you are having lots of errors in your QuickBooks program, you should take this class! This class will be taught by Jonyce Bullock, CPA and Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor of Squire & Company, Certified Public Accountants and Business Consultants, Orem. Jonyce graduated from BYU with a Masters Degree in Accounting with a tax emphasis. Jonyce has over 13 years of experience in Accounting and 10 years experience in the technology fields. Along with supporting clients with their QuickBooks needs, she has been a beta tester for Intuit since 2001. This will be the best QuickBooks class you’ll ever take. The cost for the class is $25 which includes a QuickBooks Syllabus that will take you step by step through the program. Space will be limited to the first 50 people. Registration is required for this class- contact our office at 801-863-8230 or sbdc@uvu.edu **This event is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the US Small Business Administration.

Speaker: Jonyce Bullock

Introduction to Finance

Speaker: Jared Van Orden

Prerequisite: Basic understanding of Windows. This workshop will review general accounting basics, how QuickBooks works, set up of student company file, customize chart of accounts, set up bank account, go through all the menus and reports available, customize desktop, merging names, profit and loss report, balance sheet, tracking loans from owners, historical data entry, writing letters by exporting to Word. Accounts Receivable, Etc.

Speaker: Angela Roundy

Prerequisites: QuickBooks Beginning; builds on material learned in prior class. Tracking fixed assets and their associated liabilities, depreciation, prepaid expenses, memorized transactions, making deposits not related to receivables, sales tax, bank reconciliation’s, petty cash, custom/memorized reports, budgets, accountants review, credit card transactions. Accounts Receivable, Etc.

Speaker: Angela Roundy

Prerequisites: QuickBooks Intermediate; builds on material learned in prior class. Payroll, setting up and tracking payroll liabilities, adding employees, adding payroll items, year-to-date payroll issues, payroll additions and deductions, preparing quarterly 941, making payroll tax deposits, process payroll checks, payroll reports. Job Costing, etc.

Speaker: Angela Roundy

IRS, Tax Commission, Workforce Services & Labor Commission will help small businesses with employees learn about withholding income for federal and state taxes, social security, worker's compensation, unemployment compensation, completing employment tax forms and depositing taxes.

Speaker: Various

Marketing is more than just developing a set of tools (e.g. brochures, web sites) and hoping that they generate business. Rather, it's a systematic process that can help you reach your business or personal goals. This workshop covers some of the basics of developing an effective marketing strategy to help you achieve significantly improved marketing results. Topics covered include, performance analysis, customer segmentation, positioning, branding, competitive analysis, and performance measurement.

Speaker: Nate Gibby

Studies show that 60%-80% of consumers now use search engines to find local companies instead of using the yellow pages. This FREE class will cover the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You will learn how you can get your site to rank well in Google and Bing on your own. Learn simple techniques that can be employed in just 15 minutes a day to attract local customers through search engines. This class will be taught by Sean Roylance. Sean has a degree in Computer Science from BYU and has over 10 years of experience in internet marketing. Sean has done work for Ancestry.com, Omniture, LDS.org, and OneGreatFamily.com among others. Sean is now an owner of ONYX Websites—a local website development company that provides affordable, easy-to-manage websites to small and medium sized businesses.

Speaker: Sean Roylance

Did you know you can drive traffic to your website overnight by doing pay-per-click marketing on Google? This FREE class will cover how to begin a pay-per-click marketing campaign on Google. It will also provide insight into the the potential profits of pay-per-click marketing along with the dangers of pay-per-click marketing and how to avoid them. This class will be taught by Sean Roylance. Sean has a degree in Computer Science from BYU and has over 10 years of experience in internet marketing. Sean has done work for Ancestry.com, Omniture, LDS.org, and OneGreatFamily.com among others. Sean is now an owner of ONYX Websites—a local website development company that provides affordable, easy-to-manage websites to small and medium sized businesses.

Speaker: Sean Roylance