How do you keep track of the day-to-day financial transactions of a business?  Whether you are looking to advance in your career, or you’re an entrepreneur, (or maybe you are a part of a family business), this course will help you if you are looking to understand the numbers.  The Basics of Bookkeeping course will help you understand, and know how to record, every penny that comes into your business and every penny that goes out of your business.  This course shows you how to create a chart of accounts that meet your needs.   All of the money you spend, and all of the money you earn, have a place to go.  How do your record them?  What are debits and credits?  What do the numbers mean?  How do I label accounts?  Even if you outsource your bookkeeping needs, you should still have a basic understand of what happens with the money earned and the money spent.  No one should be blind to his or her finances!  In this course you will learn where the numbers go, and why! 

You will learn the bookkeeping terminology as well as what it means to keep track of the numbers.  At the end of the cycle, what do the numbers mean?  The Basics of Bookkeeping will show you how to keep track of the numbers and why!

It’s a lot of work to move to a new home, and having the right information can make it easier. Learn about moving companies, packing tips, downsizing before you move, and setting up a successful moving day. Leave with resources needed to plan a successful move to your new home. 

Are you starting a new journey in life and moving to a new home or even downsizing to a new home? Jill is here to help guide you to make your moving and downsizing efforts stress-free. You can take a single class, or take both at a discounted rate! 

Get Ready to Move
It’s a lot of work to move to a new home, and having the right information can make it easier. Learn about moving companies, packing tips, downsizing before you move, and setting up a successful moving day. Leave with resources needed to plan a successful move to your new home. 

Downsizing?
This seminar is designed to offer organizing strategies to start your downsizing efforts. Establish your project priorities, learn what supplies you might need, and set 

This seminar is designed to offer organizing strategies to start your downsizing efforts. Establish your project priorities, learn what supplies you might need, and set realistic time constraints. Leave with an action plan. 

Learn how to answer 5 basic questions: Who are you? What are the cost estimates? What are you offering? Who will be your customers and competition? How will you advertise? Leave with resources to get started on your own business.

Materials fee: $5 per person, payable to the instructor on the first night of class. 

This class will begin with an overview of basic estate planning, including Wills,Powers of Attorney, Health Care Directives, etc. The class will then delve into,learning how revocable trusts can help avoid probate and protect your privacy, andhow irrevocable trusts can protect your assets from nursing home or Maine Care(Medicaid) liens. Discussion will include other strategies to safeguard assets from life events such as business failure or divorce of adult children.

Kathryn Bedell is a lawyer in York, Maine and has been practicing for 31 years. Her practice focuses on estate planning, asset preservation, and probatematters.

NACE is excited to welcome author Marie Miller to our 20th Annual Family Literacy Pajama Party! Wear your PJs and bring the whole family to this FREE, fun-filled event that will include the reading of Marie's book

"Where Do You Sleep?", raffle prizes and healthy snacks. Copies of "Where Do You Sleep?" will be available for purchase for $12.99.

Marie Miller is a board-certified neurologic music therapist and owner of Rhythm and Strings Music Therapy, LLC, in Southern Maine. She is passionate about creating rhythm-based resources that help children build skills in the areas of speech, language, motor planning, academic sensory regulation. She loves to develop and implement teaching methods that make learning fun, engaging, and effective.

Marie creates multisensory learning experiences that combine music, visuals, and movements to increase engagement and enhance learning. She has written over one hundred children’s songs that target specific developmental goals. This book is one of those songs!

Where do you Sleep? is a singable picture book about the sleeping habits of animals targeting expressive and receptive language skills, and beginning literacy. The book is beautifully illustrated by Erika Parker Rogers, and printed by an FSC-certified, Green Printing company.

Identify techniques that will help you organize your personal time. Suggestions offered include prioritizing, creating the “To Do” list, and how we underestimate time. Tips on how to stop procrastinating and being overwhelmed will also be discussed.