The QBO Gym Is Now Inside CAS Academy — Akadian

If you were looking for the Fast & Easy QBO Gym, you're in the right place.

The Gym didn't go away. The hands-on practice with a simulated client, the step-by-step workouts, the BooksMatch profile, the "learn by doing, not watching" approach that made it work — all of it is still here. It just lives inside something bigger now.

Here's why we made the move.

The Gym was built to solve one specific problem: bookkeepers who knew the theory but froze when it came time to actually do the work for a real client. That problem is real, and the Gym solved it well for thousands of people.

But something else started happening in the industry at the same time.

Business owners stopped just wanting someone to manage their books. They started wanting someone who could help them understand their business — answer questions about cash flow, hiring decisions, where they were actually making money. And AI was quietly taking over the mechanical work that most bookkeeping training was preparing people to do.

The hands-on practice the Gym gave you? Still essential. But it's now one part of a longer path — one that takes you from QBO confidence all the way to the kind of advisory conversations clients pay $800 to $1,500 a month for.

That's what CAS Academy is.

Four certification levels. Simulated QBO practice environments. Real-world transaction work. The deeper accounting understanding that makes everything click. And the advisory communication skills that make you the person a business owner genuinely can't replace.

Built by the same team. Still learn by doing. Just further than the Gym ever went.

"Not only are we learning what we need to know now — we're learning what the future will bring."

— Ron, CAS Academy Student

Everything about what's inside is on the next page.

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For bookkeepers who believe practice makes perfect profit

FREE 5-Day Bookkeeping Challenge:

Get A Whole Month Of

On-The-Job-Experience

In Just 5 Days

(So you can take on paying clients with A+ confidence!)

Meet Craig, your new virtual Bookkeeping client...

Break the “I need experience to get clients but I can’t get experience without clients” cycle by jumping into a month’s worth of hands-on bookkeeping practice with a life-like fictitious business owner and sample company. (That’s Craig!)

Each step-by-step exercise has been handpicked to reflect the real-world tasks you’re likely to do for clients.

So when a client asks “have you done this before?” you can give a confident YES -- because you’ve completed the task right here in the challenge.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

5 days to build your money-making confidence so you can land clients ASAP

  • Get hands-on exercises beamed to your inbox every day for 5 days -- so you can experience what it’s like working with an actual client for a whole month, soup-to-nuts

  • Turn your new experience into clients with LinkedIn-ready marketing prompts shared at the end of each training

  • Wrap it up on Day 5 with a personalized “workout” plan to take you from self-doubting side hustler to confident 6-figure bookkeeper in the next 12 months

Yes, it’s that simple! And did I mention, FREE??

MEET Your Instructor

Margie Remmers-Davis

Hey! Margie here -- creator of QBO Gym, the hands-on training doing program for experience-hungry bookkeepers.

I’ve trained thousands of bookkeepers to achieve time and money freedom by becoming QBO rock stars.

Want something like that?

Here’s what to do:


Spend around 45 minutes a day for the next 5 days developing real-world skills with the hands-on 5-Day Bookkeeping Challenge… so you can land your next client with “been there, done that!” confidence.

FAQ

Yep, it’s 100% FREE. Here are more answers:

Who is the challenge for?

The 5-Day Bookkeeping Challenge is for bookkeepers who have completed their Basic Certification and want to experience what it’s actually like working as a bookkeeper before they go out and get new clients.

What kind of tasks will I practice in the challenge?

You’ll experience a mix of essential and more advanced tasks in the challenge.

Practice:

Receiving payments

Adding expenses

Processing bank feed transactions

Sending invoices

Paying bills

Recording bank deposits

Creating an estimate

Converting the estimate to a purchase order

Creating an expense from a purchase order

Reconciling the checking account

Running reports

You’ll complete these tasks for our fictitious business owner, Craig. Each exercise is modeled on real-life scenarios you’ll encounter with your future clients. So you’ll know exactly what to say and do when the time comes.

How long will the challenge take to complete?

You’ll have access to the training for 5 days. We recommend you block out 45 minutes a day to get the most out of the training exercises.

How will this help me land clients?

Potential clients don’t care who your last client was. They just want to know they can trust you to get the job done.

Use the invaluable experience you’ll gain in this challenge to communicate your valuable skillset. Give them (and yourself!) confidence that you know what you’re doing. Because you’ve done it umpteen times before with our life-like business owner, Craig.

Get a whole month of on

the-job-experience in 5 days

(So you can take on paying clients with A+ confidence!)

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