RUS Borrower Accounting (Electric) Course (Self-Paced)
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Self-paced online training with expert support

Master the specialized accounting that governs RUS electric cooperative borrowers, from the FERC/RUS Uniform System of Accounts and construction work orders through year-end close, Form 7 reporting, financial analysis, and loan-fund management.

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This course includes

  • 33 hours of project-based training from experts
  • Answers from real instructors
  • Additional 1-on-1 mentoring outside of class
  • Verified digital certificate of completion
  • Learn at an accredited institution
  • Credits: 40 CPEs

This self-paced course covers the accounting principles, procedures, and federal requirements that govern Rural Utilities Service (RUS) electric cooperative borrowers. Following a cooperative from its books of account and the FERC/RUS Uniform System of Accounts through construction cost accounting, the operating period and year-end close, RUS Form 7 reporting, financial analysis, plant and depreciation accounting, continuing property records, and RUS loan-fund management, you will learn the basic and specialized accounting common to organizations of this type. A running example traces the transactions of an electric cooperative from organization through its first year-end.

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