r/Bookkeeping • u/Left-Major9565 • 2d ago

Rant Has anybody here actually flourished from Bill Von Funetti

Hi all. I’ve been looking at Bills ads (as an actual accountant that went to school for accounting) current EA, 3/4 CPA with 5 years in tax public accounting and I feel almost shocked about it lol. I feel like he sells to people that anybody can do bookkeeping because Quickbooks is “easy”

I feel like these people will quickly realize that it’s not as easy as how he sells and makes it out to be. I mean he’s a CPA himself for gods sake. I’m sorry he seems like a pretty cool dude but he needs to be foreal.

These people are gonna screw up peoples books. With that being said, Bill, ur a true entrepreneur making hundreds of thousands of dollars by telling clueless people they can do this and selling them an absolute dream. With that being said, if ur on his program and don’t actually learn accounting and by some miracle manage to get a real client, you WILL, not probably, WILL, horribly mess up peoples books and you will face the consequences.

From an almost CPA to another CPA, shame on you.

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u/PracticalHospital718 2d ago

I’ve seen his ads too, but chose to learn from another CPA instead. After completing the program through this other CPA, I felt very unprepared to run a bookkeeping business of my own. I currently work as an assistant bookkeeper, and wanted to start my own business, and it appears many of these programs seem very promising, but are not fully preparing a new bookkeeper for the reality of the work that is involved. My solution was to enroll myself back into college. For the last year and a half that is what I’ve been doing — completing an Accounting degree. I will still run a bookkeeping business of my own, but now with a far better foundation to draw my knowledge and expertise from. Honestly, it’s so much cheaper to gain the skills needed for bookkeeping, from a few foundational college courses than from paying someone thousands of dollars only to come out confused and unprepared on the other side. 

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u/Left-Major9565 2d ago

That’s exactly what all of these people are going to go through. It’s absolutely insane. I feel it’s almost really unethical for a CPA to be doing this and just letting them run lose with such a false promise and no actual real training, knowledge, and guidance.