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Accounting for Beginners: Learn Basic Accounting Principles
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Accounting for Beginners: Learn Basic Accounting Principles

Learn accounting principles, record transactions, and build a solid foundation in financial accounting
Created byElvin Chua
Last updated 11/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Understand the accounting nature and treatment of assets, liabilities, revenues, and accounts receivable.
  • Learn to prepare the building blocks of financial accounting, including T-Accounts and General Journal entries.
  • Apply basic accounting principles to handle revenue recognition, credit sales, and credit card transactions correctly.
  • Reinforce your understanding through a hands-on accounting assignment that integrates all concepts learned.

Course content

3 sections12 lectures38m total length
  • Introduction0:34

    The class assignment is attached along with the answer key. At the end of lesson 10, you may attempt the worksheet at your own pace to apply the concepts taught in class.

Requirements

  • No financial accounting background required, you will learn the fundamentals.

Description

Learn Accounting the Easy Way - Even If You’ve Never Touched a Ledger Before

Accounting isn’t just numbers - it’s the language of every successful business.
When you understand how money really moves, you make smarter decisions, spot problems early, and feel in control of your finances instead of guessing.

In this beginner-friendly course, you’ll build a strong foundation in accounting from the ground up. No jargon. No overwhelm. Just simple, structured lessons that finally make accounting click.

What You’ll Learn

  • The core principles behind accounting - and how they shape every financial decision

  • How to record transactions and make sense of debits and credits

  • How to create and interpret simple accounts with confidence

  • The most common beginner mistakes (and how to avoid them!)

  • How accounting brings clarity and insight to your business decisions

Who This Course Is For

  • Absolute beginners who want to make sense of accounting, once and for all

  • Entrepreneurs who want to understand their numbers without hiring an accountant

  • Students or professionals who want to strengthen their financial intuition

  • Anyone who’s ever thought, “I’m just not a numbers person” - and wants to change that

Why Learn From Me

I’ve studied and practiced financial accounting for over six years, learning from a range of educators and guiding peers along the way. My teaching style focuses on clarity, logic, and flow - helping you see not just what to do, but why it works.

By the end, you won’t just memorize journal entries - you’ll think like an accountant and feel confident applying these skills in real-world situations.

Promo Code:
Use MMM25PROMO to sign up at a discounted rate of $12.99, where <MMM> is the month you enroll (e.g. NOV25PROMO if joining in November 2025).

Who this course is for:

  • Intended learners are entrepreneurs, home-based owners, and really anyone who has no financial accounting background. Having a foundational grasp of financial accounting knowledge helps us better understand how a given transaction affects the firm/organisation's financial status.