Learn Online: Accounting & Bookkeeping 101 Syllabus: Accounting & Bookkeeping 101 Course Description
"Introduction to Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Finance for Non Accountants" is a course that covers the fundamentals of accounting with the newcomer in mind. Accounting is more than just memorizing terms and procedures; it's a whole new way of thinking about finances. This course assumes students have no prior knowledge about accounting or finance, and delivers lessons and examples to build accounting skills. Specifically, this class addresses accounting terminology, revenue, expenses, net income, the accounting equation, debits, credits, and balancing the accounting formula, the accounting structure, the accounting cycle, journals, ledgers, the trial balance and more. It also guides students to learn how to read financial statements properly, and how to grab meaningful information from the balance sheet, income statements and cash flow statements.
After completing this course, you will have a solid understanding of accounting in today's world. By applying the concepts learned in this course, you will understand the processes behind Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, you will understand how and why financial transactions are documented, you will know what cash flow is and how to improve it, you will know what profit is, how it's interpreted, and what influences its growth. Moreover, you will know where the money in the company you work for, or own, goes. Learn accounting now and achieve a skill that is an invaluable (if not required) asset to your professional development.
Course Requirements
Your willingness to learn a new skill. We recommend a workbook to use to help practice mastery with all concepts covered, but it's not required.
Course Goals
To understand fundamental accounting concepts as well as to be able to read and extract meaningful information from financial statements. Knowing accounting will help you improve your own finances, improve your company's bottom line, and help start you on your way to becoming a profitable entrepreneur. Accounting is used in almost every aspect of our lives, it is a necessary skill.
Reading Materials
There are two recommended workbook to use with this class, both are not required:
- Accounting Simplified
- Accounting and Bookkeeping
Grading Policy
Standard A-F grading policy. No submitted assignment score is final though. Assignments are works in progress--learning a new skill is all about trial and error. We're here to help you make the most of this class.
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