Financial Accounting & Excel–Comprehensive Accounting Course
What you'll learn
- Accounting Cycle
- Debits & Credits
- Excel Fundamentals - Add, Subtract, Sum Function
- Journalize Journal Entries
- Post Journal Entries to General Ledger
- Create Trial Balance From General Ledger
- Adjusting Entries
- Bank Reconciliations
- Financial Statement Generation
- Closing Journal Entries
- Reversing Journal Entries
Requirements
- We will use Excel. Having Excel will allow us to work through the problems along with the video. If we do not have Excel, we can still follow along with the comprehensive problem.
Description
If we are a business owner or accounting professional who would like to get a better understanding of what our accounting software is doing
Or
An accounting student or student in general that would like to get a better understanding of what our accounting textbook is doing
This course is a course for us.
Business owners, accounting professionals, and accounting students often have the same problem with accounting. . .
that we are focused on one small component of the accounting process and not able to make all the necessary connections to other components of the accounting process to fully benefit from an understanding of how the business runs.
Business owners focus on cash flow and revenue, accounting professionals focus on their component of the accounting department and enter data into the accounting software, and accounting students focus on the topic they are currently working on.
Accounting professional often focus on one component of the accounting cycle like accounts receivable, accounts payable, or payroll often not having much time to consider the relationship with other areas of the accounting cycle.
Accounting software helps simplify the data entry process, but the simplification also restricts us from seeing how the data is being processed into the end product, into financial statements and reports.
Students are focused on one component of the accounting cycle at a time following an accounting textbook that is putting the pieces of the accounting puzzle together one step at a time.
As students zoom their focus into the current topic, they often lose sight of it fits into the larger objective and this loss of sight causes students to question the relevance of what they are losing. Student’s questioning the relevance of what they are learning causes students to lose interest. A loss of student interest causes students grades to fall.
Part of the reason accounting textbooks have a difficult time incorporating the current topic into the big picture is that a textbook is restricted by what can fit on a page and the problems a textbook provides are restricted by what a student can accomplish with paper and pencil.
The use of instructional video providing a step by step process along with Excel that allows students to sum up large columns of numbers in a short time provides the tools to create a comprehensive problem that will demonstrate current topics in the context of the entire accounting process.
Why Take This Course?
We will learn the accounting cycle in a comprehensive way and learn the fundamental of Excel.
Learning the accounting process without Excel or Excel without accounting is a waste of time and not an efficient way to learn either topic.
Like assets being equivalent to liabilities and equity, accounting is equivalent to Excel in many ways and therefore learning Excel will accelerate our learning of accounting and make what we learn more applicable.
Accounting is also the perfect tool to learn Excel. This course will not provide a broad overview of everything Excel can do because that is not a way to learn. Courses attempting to demonstrate all the functions Excel fail to create value for learners because learners will not retain what they learn without a foundation of core concepts and a reason for learning each new function.
This course will cover the fundamentals of Excel, those components used 99% of the time, and the components needed as a foundation for learning more about Excel.
The core components of Excel we will learn include adding, subtracting, and summing up columns of numbers.
We will learn the core concept of Excel through demonstration, repetition, and application to practical problems.
What Will Be Included in This Course?
We will complete a comprehensive problem using both instructional video and application.
Although the course offers much more than just instructional video, it does include over 20 hours of instructional video.
We also include an Excel worksheet with just about every presentation allowing us to both see the completed answer and work through the problems step by step along with the video.
Each Excel workbook includes at least two tabs. One tab will have the answer so that we can see how the completed worksheet is constructed and the second tab will provide us the opportunity to enter the data along with the instructional video.
Who Will We Be Learning From?
We will be learning from somebody who has practical accounting experience as a practicing CPA, teaching experience, curriculum design experience.
Credentials include:
We are learning from someone who has both instruction and curriculum development experience needed to construct comprehensive courses of a technical nature in a way that meets students’ needs and expectations.
What Will We Learn?
We will learn how to complete the components of the accounting cycle and the fundamental of Excel including addition, subtraction, and the sum function.
Below is a short list of what is included in the accounting cycle and what we will cover in the course:
- Journalizing journal entries
- Posting to the general ledger
- Create a trial balance
- Adjusting entries
- Bank reconciliations
- Financial statement generation
- Closing entries
- Reversing entries
How Will We Be Taught?
We will learn through viewing and then doing.
We will demonstrate each component of the problem in small digestible parts using both a completed Excel worksheet and instructional video.
We will provide an Excel worksheet that can be filled in along with the instructional video or after watching the instructional video.
Please join us in learning Accounting, Excel, debits, and credits.
It will be Great
Course Content Includes:
- Start a New Business Section of Accounting & Excel Course
- 05 Set up New Company Worksheet
- 10 Set Up Inventory Items
- 15 Set Up Customer Balances
- 20 Set Up Vendors Beginning Balances
- 25 Enter Opening Account Balances
- Accounting Concepts Section of Accounting & Excel Course
- 135 Cash Method vs Accrual Method
- 132 Balance Sheet & Income Statement Relationship
- 155 Financial Transaction Rules
- 160 Financial Transaction Thought Process
- Enter Data for First Month Section of Accounting & Excel Course
- 05 Owner Deposit & Loan Deposit
- 10 Purchase Furniture & Record Investment
- 20 Part 1 Invoice Transaction
- 20 Part Two Create on Invoice Transaction
- 25 Receive Payment Part 1
- 25 Receive Payment Part 2
- 25 Receive Payment Part 3
- 30 Cash Sales Transaction Part 1
- 30 Cash Sales Part 2
- 35 Deposit Part 1
- 35 Deposit Part 2
- 40 Part 1 Inventory Payment
- 40 Part 2 Inventory Payment
- 45 Invoice for Preordered Item Part 1.
- 45 Invoice for Pre-ordered Item Part 2
- 50 Receive Payment & Make Deposit
- 55 Part 1 Write Check
- 55 Part 2 Write Check Part 2
- 60 Pay Bills
- 65 Customer Jobs
- 70 Payroll
- 75 Job Sales Receipt
- 80 Financial Statements & Reports
- 90 Closing Process January
- 92 Worksheet Month Two
- Enter Data for Second Month Section of Accounting & Excel Course
- 05 Make Loan Payments
- 10 Short Term Investment
- 20 Receive Inventory With Bill
- 20 Receive Inventory With Bill Part 2
- 25 Sales Receipt & Deposit
- 25 Part 2 Sales Receipt & Deposit
- 30 Advanced Payment From Customer
- 35 Apply Credit to Invoice
- 40 Record Sales on Account
- 45 Advance Customer Payment
- 50 Bills Track & Pay
- 55 Customer Payment on Account
- 60 Pay Sales Tax
- 65 Pay Payroll Tax
- 70 Enter Bills & Pay Bills
- 75 Service Item & Invoices
- 77 Purchase Equipment with Debt
- 80 Payroll
- 90 Rental Income
- 95 Financial Statements
- Bank Reconciliations Section of Accounting & Excel Course
- 10 Bank Reconciliation January
- 12 Bank Reconciliation Adjusting Entries January
- 15 Bank Reconciliation February
- 20 Bank Reconciliation Feb. Adjusting Entries
- Adjusting Entries & Financial Statement Section of Accounting & Excel Course
- 10 Loan Payable Adjusting Entry Part 1
- 15 Loan Payable Adjusting Entry Part 2
- 20 Accrued Interest Adjusting Entry
- 25 Invoice Adjusting Entry
- 40 Prepaid Insurance Adjusting Journal Entry
- 45 Depreciation Adjusting Entry
- 50 Unearned Revenue Adjusting Entry
- 60 Financial Statements
- 65 Closing Process February
- 300 Accrued Interest Reversing Entry
- 350 Accounts Receivable Reversing Entry
- 550 Unearned Revenue Reversing Entry
Who this course is for:
- Business Owners
- Accounting Professionals
- Accounting Students
- Students taking accounting courses
Instructor
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Through working with students from many different schools, Mr. Steele has learned best practices for helping people understand accounting fast. Learning new skills and finding the best way to share knowledge with people who can benefit from it is a passion of his.
Mr. Steele has experience working as a practicing Certified Public Accountant (CPA), an accounting and business instructor, and curriculum developer. He has enjoyed putting together quality tools to improve learning and has been teaching, making instructional resources, and building curriculum since 2009. He has been a practicing CPA since 2005. Mr. Steele is a practicing CPA, has a Certified Post-Secondary Instructor (CPI) credential, a Master of Science in taxation from Golden Gate University, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting from The University of California Santa Barbara, and a Global Management Accounting Designation (CGMA) from The American Institute of CPA (AICPA).
Mr. Steele has also authored five books that can be found on Amazon or in audiobook format on Audible. He has developed bestselling courses in accounting topics including financial accounting and QuickBooks accounting software.
In addition to working as an accountant, teaching, and developing courses Mr. Steele has helped create an accounting website at accountinginstruction, a YouTube channel called Accounting Instruction, Help, and How Too, and has developed supplemental resources including a Facebook Page, Twitter Page, and Podcasts that can be found on I-tunes, Stitcher, or Soundcloud. Mr. Steele's teaching philosophy is to make content applicable, understandable, and accessible.
Adult learners are looking for application when they learn new skills. In other words, learners want to be able to apply skills in the real world to help their lives. Mr. Steele’s formal accounting education, practical work experience, and substantial teaching experience allow him to create a curriculum that combines traditional accounting education with practical knowledge and application. He accomplishes the goals of making accounting useful and applicable by combining theory with real-world software like Excel and QuickBooks.
Many courses teach QuickBooks data entry or Excel functions but are not providing the real value learners want. Real value is a result of learning technical skills like applications, in conjunction with specific goals, like accounting goals, including being able to interpret the performance of a business.
Mr. Steele makes knowledge understandable by breaking down complex concepts into smaller units with specific objectives and using step by step learning processes to understand each unit. Many accounting textbooks cram way too much information into a course, making it impossible to understand any unit fully. By breaking the content down into digestible chunks, we can move forward much faster.
Mr. Steele also makes use of color association in both presentations and Excel worksheets, a learning tool often overlooked in the accounting field, but one that can vastly improve the speed and comprehension of learning accounting concepts.
The material is also made understandable through the application of concepts learned. Courses will typically demonstrate the accounting concepts and then provide an Excel worksheet or practice problems to work through the concepts covered. The practice problems will be accompanied by an instructional video to work through the problem in step by step format. Excel worksheets will be preformatted, usually including an answer tab that shows the completed problem, and a practice tab where learners can complete the problem along with a step by step presentation video.
Mr. Steele makes learning accounting accessible by making use of technology and partnering with teaching platforms that have a vision of spreading knowledge like Udemy.