Master the basics of accounting in just an hour with fun shortcuts and relatable analogies. Perfect for business owners, students, and managers.
This course is a fun and easy way to get the hang of basic accounting. Perfect for anyone keen to understand how numbers work in business, it's packed with helpful videos and quizzes to make learning so much simpler!
Learn the very basics of accounting in just about an hour.
This is not your typical accounting course!
Professor Turner has taught thousands of students basic accounting. He has developed shortcuts and analogies to make learning accounting easy. If you want to understand this subject in a simple, fun way then this brief introductory course is for you.
This course will show you the very basics of accounting. You can complete it in about an hour. The course includes videos of the instructor at the whiteboard. You will complete simple quizzes to reinforce what you have learned. This course is intended for business owners, business students, managers or anyone who wants to understand basic accounting. It presents the information in an understandable format. Even if you have taken an accounting course you will find the material insightful.
The course introduces
The Accounting Equation (One you can understand!)
Balance Sheets
Income Statements
Debits and Credits (And how to know which is which!)
Why Profit Does Not Equal Cash!
If you have dreaded the thought of learning accounting, this is exactly the introduction you will welcome!
Why should take this course?
You are a business owner. You want your business to succeed and you know that you need a better understanding of how the numbers are put together.
You are a manager. You deal with accounting staff, bookkeepers, owners and subordinates. You hear accounting terms daily but you want to know more about what accounting means.
You are a business student. You dread taking your first accounting course. Or maybe you are in an introductory class right now. It all sounds so complicated. You want to find a simple explanation of what you are trying to learn.
You are an accounting student. You feel that you really did not get a firm grasp of the basics. You would like to start from scratch in an easy to learn format.
CPE (Continuing Professional Education)
Learning Objectives
Apply the basic accounting formula
Identify assets, liabilities and equity
Describe how the income statement and balance sheet are connected
Recognize why profit does not equal cash
Interpret a balance sheet
Predict when an account increases with a debit or increase with a credit
Summarize the purpose of a trial balance
Differentiate income statement accounts from balance sheet accounts
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Understand the basic accounting equation
Know the difference between a debit and a credit
See how to prepare a balance sheet and income statement
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Vince has taught accounting, business and information technology classes for the last ten years. He holds an MSBA and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He has taught thousands of students and his goal is to always make complex subjects easy to understand. Vince has always been involved in education. In addition to teaching he served as an elected community...
As an Intro Soft course, It is very informative, simplifies the concepts of accounting and gives an intro into Accounting equation, Financial statements, understanding the concept of debits and credits, The trial Balance, how it forms the balance sheet, and the Income statements. The timing for a balance sheet and respectively the income statement. understanding cash flow and timing and what is considered profit. supplemental PDF for understanding the break even analysis. I highly recommend this course for people interested in accounting on all levels of accounting proficiency.
amazing
at least make it memorable so that it's easy for people who cannot understand any accounting such as using DC ADELER meaning under debit are assets, drawings & expenses while under credit are liabilities, equity & revenues.
very good courses
Yes, enjoying the course.
very informational
Awesome !!
Very brief yet simple to understand accounting.
Clear and concise explanation! Kudos to Mr. Turner! :-)
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Adi W.
Very clear and understandable explanation! Never understood dr/cr properly until this course.