From The Sleeter Group to today
Learn QuickBooks Online, step by step
The QuickBooks textbooks The Sleeter Group built for classrooms live on as QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step: hands-on exercises in QuickBooks Online, quizzes and smart grading, from Questiva Consultants. Chapter 4 is free to read, with no account and no card.
Sleeter Consulting
Doug Sleeter: accounting technology advisor, investor and author
Doug Sleeter is the founder and former CEO of The Sleeter Group, an international network of accounting software consultants, and the former producer of SleeterCon, an annual conference and tradeshow for accounting professionals. After selling The Sleeter Group in 2015, he now focuses on angel investing and advisory for startups in fintech, blockchain and automation.
In 2017, Doug was inducted into The CPA Practice Advisor Hall of Fame. He was also named to Accounting Today’s “Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting” every year from 2008 through 2015.
Doug is a passionate leader of innovation and change in the small business accounting technology world. As a CPA firm veteran and former Apple Computer evangelist, he melded his two great passions, accounting and technology, to guide developers in the innovation of new products and to educate and lead the accounting professionals who serve small businesses.
His QuickBooks college textbooks continue today as QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step, published by Questiva Consultants.
- 14Thought leader awards
- 30+Years in accounting technology
- 120Developer clients
- 15Published books
What we do
Our services
Strategic Advisory
We help your entire team focus on how your company can win in the marketplace: product direction, marketing and sales channels, and a deep understanding of the market you are targeting.
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We help you weigh the tradeoffs of building your existing company, attracting venture capital, or pursuing a partial or complete sale of your assets.
More on M&A ConsultingExecutive Coaching
We provide executive coaching to CEOs who want to sharpen their strategic thinking and planning.
More on Executive CoachingAccounting Software Market Strategy
We help developers build a winning marketing strategy for the accounting profession, resellers, VARs and small businesses.
More on Accounting Software Market StrategySoftware Design Consulting
With an extensive background in software design, feature development and product positioning, we help your team plan market-winning applications.
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From cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to blockchains for accounting records and smart contracts, we believe we are in the midst of a fundamental shift in how information is stored, moved, secured and used.
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By Alicia Katz Pollock · Published by Questiva Consultants
The QuickBooks college textbook, today
The textbooks Doug started, rebuilt for QuickBooks Online
For more than twenty years, the QuickBooks textbooks used in classrooms and training rooms carried The Sleeter Group imprint. QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step was originally developed by The Sleeter Group, the company Doug Sleeter founded, and is written and edited by Alicia Katz Pollock. Questiva Consultants publishes it today.
Lite
$114.95 a year, or $34.95 a month
Chapters 1–8 and 10: setup, sales, expenses, banking, reports and advanced workflows.
Craig’s Landscaping, in Intuit’s free QuickBooks Online Test Drive, so it needs no QuickBooks Online account.
Standard
$179.95 a year, or $59.95 a month
Everything in Lite, plus chapters 9 and 11–16: the YinYang Graphic Design case study, job costing, inventory, year-end, payroll and the capstone, the bonus chapter and every end-of-chapter DIY.
Imagine Photography and YinYang Graphic Design, companies you build yourself. It needs a QuickBooks Online account, and a free one works.
Chapter 4 is free to read, with no account and no card.
Angel investment and advisory
Our portfolio
- Bill.comPublic offering, December 2019
- Accounts payable, receivables and payments automation.
- Gusto
- Payroll, benefits and HR for small business.
- Botkeeper
- Automated client bookkeeping for accounting firms.
- Gilded
- The future of finance is global, open and powered by blockchain: payments and accounting for global businesses with both crypto and traditional finances.
- Autio
- Location-based audio stories for travelers: the facts and history of wherever your GPS says you are.
- ContaAzul
- Online accounting software for the Brazilian market.
- Ace Cloud HostingPreferred hosting provider
- Cloud hosting for Windows desktop applications: QuickBooks, Sage, tax applications and all your Windows data. Our preferred hosting provider for its support, fast response and very high performance.
- ArmaticSold to BlueSnap, October 2019
- Integrated quoting, eSign, AR automation, customer success and NPS.
- BQE Software
- Professional services automation, project management and accounting for professional services firms.
- Mana Pacific
- Accelerating the adoption of renewable energy in the Pacific Islands.
- Locate Inventory
- Cloud-based inventory management for mid-sized businesses.
- Client Hub
- An all-in-one workspace where accounting professionals and their clients have everything they need to collaborate.
- Spotlight Reporting
- Integrated reporting and forecasting that turns insight into better business outcomes.
- Agiliron
- One suite for every order, inventory and CRM record, from every sales channel.
- Netfira
- Invoices delivered straight into your customer’s own accounting system, with one-click customer statement reconciliation.
In their words
Endorsements
Doug is one of the people who you think of right away as a thought leader in our industry. … He helps move the industry forward by highlighting the best players and driving everyone to achieve excellence in their products and services.
Samir KhoslaFormer QuickBooks Product Manager, founder of Client Hub
Doug truly is a “thought leader” in the area of small business accounting. … That truly is “thought leadership” – helping us to understand what the future will bring so that we can prepare ourselves.
Charlie RussellFormer blog editor, The Sleeter Report
When advanced-certified QuickBooks consultants have a business question and they’re stumped, where do they turn? To Doug Sleeter and his professional organization, ‘The Sleeter Group.’
Tim GrantInventory, manufacturing and transportation software consultant, member of The Sleeter Group Consultants Network
Articles, decks and books
Doug Sleeter’s published work
The CPA Practice Advisor
Doug’s columns on accounting technology and the profession, and the July 2013 cover story on how the Sleeters helped shape small business technology.
Read Doug’s articles
Slide decks
Doug’s presentations from SleeterCon and conferences worldwide, including The Next Frontier in Accounting Technology.
See the decks on SlideShareQuickBooks college textbooks
From QuickBooks Complete to QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step, the QuickBooks Online textbook published by Questiva Consultants.
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Learning QuickBooks Online, or teaching it?
Start with QuickBooks Online Step-by-Step. Chapter 4 is free to read, with no account and no card.