AccountingBeginner
Accounting Essentials
The language of business, explained without fear.
Taught by Pooja Adhikari · Chartered Accountant
What you'll learn
- Explain the accounting equation
- Record a transaction with debits and credits
- Tell profit apart from cash
- Read the purpose of each core statement
About this course
Accounting is how every business keeps score. This free course teaches the accounting equation and double-entry — the elegant 500-year-old system that keeps the world's books balanced — so financial statements stop looking like a foreign language.
Course content
5 lessons- 1The accounting equationAssets = Liabilities + Equity, forever.Preview
- 2Debits and creditsDouble-entry without the fear.Preview
- 3The income statementHow profit is measured.
- 4Balance sheet & cash flowPosition and movement of money.
- 5Profit is not cashThe mistake that sinks businesses.