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Finance & Accounting Accounting & Bookkeeping Financial Accounting

Accounting Made Easy: A Quick Guide to Financial Accounting

Accounting is not about Math, it is about concepts. And no one said it has to be hard. Learn the basics in just 2 hours!
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (1,068 ratings)
3,941 students
Created by 365 Careers
Last updated 3/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Understand bookkeeping records
  • Build an Income Statement
  • Build a Balance Sheet
  • Understand the accounting equation and the principle of double entry
  • Tell the diffrence between debits and credits
  • Analyze a company's performance based on the figures in its annual report
Curated for the Udemy for Business collection

Requirements

  • No prior knowledge of accounting is assumed or needed
  • There is nothing to buy or pay for - everything is included for free
  • You'll need a notebook and a pen

Description

There are not many courses available on the market that make a complex and dry subject understandable and even fun. This course does just that!

By completing it you will be able to learn the essentials of Accounting and Bookkeeping - two of the fundamental tools for a successful career in Finance.

Accounting Made Easy: A Quick Guide To Financial Accounting will help you understand basic accounting concepts and offer extra practice on topics such as:

...Bookkeeping, Debits, Credits, the Chart of Accounts, General and Subsidiary Ledgers, T-Accounts, Income Statement and Balance Sheet items, The Accounting Equation, the Double-Entry Principles and more...

In no time you will be able to:

  • Set up an accounting system
  • Recording accounting transactions
  • Making accounting entries
  • Preparing Income Statements and Balance Sheets
  • Understand Financial Statements

The course is suitable for people with no previous Accounting or Business knowledge. You can complete it in a couple of hours and instantly improve your understanding of financial statements and accounting transactions!

What makes this course different from the rest of the Accounting courses that are out there?

  • High quality of production – HD video and animations (This isn’t a collection of boring lectures!)
  • Knowledgeable instructor (experience in Big 4 Accounting + Master in Finance)
  • A Complete Case Study that will help you reinforce everything that you’ve learned
  • Excellent support: If you don’t understand a concept or you simply want to drop us a line, you’ll receive an answer within 24 hours
  • Dynamic: We don’t want to waste your time! The instructor keeps up a very good pace throughout the whole course.

How come Accounting is so important?

It’s about money, right? If you want to understand how money is coming in and going out of a business, you will have to learn accounting.

Here are 5 more reasons why you should take this course and learn accounting:

  • Jobs. A solid understanding of accounting usually lands you a sweet job as an accountant and opens doors for a number of career paths.
  • Promotions. Accountants are promoted very easily inside large corporations
  • Mick Jagger studied accounting
  • Secure Future. Accounting skills remain with you and provide extra security. You won’t ever have to fear unemployment
  • Girls dig accountants! Guys who can tell the difference between debits and credits are proven to be the most popular with women

Please don’t forget that the course comes with Udemy’s 30-day unconditional money-back-in-full guarantee. And why not give such a guarantee, when we are convinced that the course will provide a ton of value for you?

So what are you waiting for? 

Click the "Take this Course" button and start learning now!

Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring Accountants and Financial Analysts
  • Aspiring Investment Bankers
  • Aspiring Financial Controllers
  • Business Owners
  • Accounting Students
  • Anyone wishing to understand a company's financials
  • Anyone wishing to be successful in the world of Business & Finance

Featured review

Siddharth Dixit
Siddharth Dixit
75 courses
5 reviews
Rating: 4.5 out of 57 months ago
Excellent course for learning accounting basis and concepts. The audio video quality was good and lastly the exercises provided in the end of the course with detailed explanations of all the steps and procedure was the icing on the cake. Loved it. Thanks to the instructor and Udemy.

Course content

4 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 15m total length

  • Preview00:46
  • Preview05:11
  • Earn a Free Gift!
    1 page
  • Preview02:34
  • Preview02:46
  • Quiz 1
    3 questions

  • The Three Main Financial Statements: P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow
    02:10
  • Building Blocks of an Income Statement
    06:01
  • Building Blocks of a Balance Sheet
    04:35
  • Quiz 2
    3 questions

  • The Accounting Equation and How It Stays in Balance
    02:00
  • General & Subsidiary Ledgers - This Is How a Firm Organizes Its Accounts
    01:42
  • Making Sense of Debits and Credits! It Does Not Have To Be Hard
    04:24
  • Income Statement T-Accounts
    03:01
  • The Cornerstone Principle of Accounting - Double Entry Bookkeeping
    05:19
  • Quiz 3
    3 questions

  • Practical Exercise: Bookkeeping entries + Building a P&L & a Balance Sheet (1/4)
    10:24
  • Practical Exercise: Bookkeeping entries + Building a P&L & a Balance Sheet (2/4)
    07:39
  • Practical Exercise: Bookkeeping entries + Building a P&L & a Balance Sheet (3/4)
    07:30
  • Practical Exercise: Bookkeeping entries + Building a P&L & a Balance Sheet (4/4)
    08:14
  • Quiz 4
    3 questions
  • Final Quiz
    10 questions

Instructor

365 Careers
Creating opportunities for Business & Finance students
365 Careers
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 373,657 Reviews
  • 1,275,657 Students
  • 68 Courses

365 Careers is the #1 best-selling provider of finance courses on Udemy. The company’s courses have been taken by more than 1,000,000 students in 210 countries. People working at world-class firms like Apple, PayPal, and Citibank have completed 365 Careers trainings.  

Currently, the firm focuses on the following topics on Udemy:  

1) Finance – Finance fundamentals, Financial modeling in Excel, Valuation, Accounting, Capital budgeting, Financial statement analysis (FSA), Investment banking (IB), Leveraged buyout (LBO), Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Corporate budgeting, applying Python for Finance, Tesla valuation case study, CFA, ACCA, and CPA

2) Data science – Statistics, Mathematics, Probability, SQL, Python programming, Python for Finance, Business Intelligence, R, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Tableau, the integration of SQL and Tableau, the integration of SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Credit Risk Modeling, and Credit Analytics

3) Entrepreneurship – Business Strategy, Management and HR Management, Marketing, Decision Making, Negotiation, and Persuasion, Tesla's Strategy and Marketing

4) Office productivity – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook

5) Blockchain for Business

All of the company’s courses are:  

Pre-scripted  

Hands-on  

Laser-focused  

Engaging  

Real-life tested  

By choosing 365 Careers, you make sure you will learn from proven experts, who have a passion for teaching, and can take you from beginner to pro in the shortest possible amount of time.  

If you want to become a financial analyst, a finance manager, an FP&A analyst, an investment banker, a business executive, an entrepreneur, a business intelligence analyst, a data analyst, or a data scientist, 365 Careers’ courses are the perfect place to start. 

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