Basic Accounting Concepts

Learn accounting understand business
001 Introduction to the Course
002 Basics of Accounting
003 Cash Vs Accrual Basis
004 Accounting Cycle
005 Managing Inventory
006 Accounting for Sales
007 Reconciling Cash
008 Accounting for Payroll
009 Breaking Down the Balance Sheet
010 DepreciationAmortization
011 Trial Balance
012 Adjusting Entries
013 Preparing Financial Statements
014 Wrapping up the Accounting Cycle
015 Ratio Analysis

Accounting 1: Program #1 "Introduction to Class" dkrug@jccc.edu

You can learn Accounting and Financial reporting by reading this free book “Business Accounting” online. It is a good book, written by Joe Hoyle, an associate professor of accounting at the Robins School of Business, University of Richmond and C. J. Skender, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A free course by Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare.This course studies basic concepts of financial and managerial reporting. The viewpoint is that of readers of financial and managerial reports rather than the accountants who prepare them.

A collection of over 30 free key accounting articles that serve as a primer for beginners and a refresher for those who already have background in accounting. It aims to build and solidify one's knowledge of the fundamentals which are vital in pursuing higher accounting studies and building a successful career in it. Artciles are grouped by:

1 - Introduction to Accounting

2 - Fundamental Accounting Concepts

3 - The Financial Statements

4 - Analyzing, Recording and Classifying Transactions

In these Accounting Tutorials, Daniel Dickson teaches the basics of accounting and how to make money by learning accounting. The Accounting Video Lessons are Free.

Financial Accounting 2013 video playlist - by Professor Victoria Chiu from the Rutgers Business School 

This is not your typical accounting course!

Professor Turner has taught thousands of students basic accounting.  He has developed shortcuts and analogies to make learning accounting easy.  If you want to understand this subject in a simple, fun way then this brief introductory course is for you.

This course will show you the very basics of accounting.  You can complete it inabout an hour.  The course includes videos of the instructor at the whiteboard.  You will complete simple quizzes to reinforce what you have learned.  This course is intended for business owners, business students, managers or anyone who wants to understand basic accounting.  It presents the information in anunderstandable format.  Even if you have taken an accounting course you will find the material insightful.

The course introduces

The Accounting Equation (One you can understand!)Balance SheetsIncome StatementsDebits and Credits (And how to know which is which!)Why Profit Does Not Equal Cash!

If you have dreaded the thought of learning accounting, this is exactly the introduction you will welcome!

Why should take this course?

You are a business owner.  You want your business to succeed and you know that you need a better understanding of how the numbers are put together.

You are a manager.  You deal with accounting staff, bookkeepers, owners and subordinates.  You hear accounting terms daily but you want to know more about what accounting means.

You are a business student.  You dread taking your first accounting course.  Or maybe you are in an introductory class right now.  It all sounds so complicated.  You want to find a simple explanation of what you are trying to learn.

You are an accounting student.  You feel that you really did not get a firm grasp of the basics.  You would like to start from scratch in an easy to learn format.

Accounting tutorials and online accounting lessons, tutorials, articles, questions and exercises with solutions. Great accounting study material for students and accounting refresher for accountants, managers and business owners.

Comprehensive teaching/learning resources on Financial Accounting from Bized including Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Mind Maps, Case studies, Simulations and Activities.

 

Topics cover Cash Flow, Ratio Analysis, Depreciation, ROCE, Costs, Break-Even, Sources of Finance, Profit and Loss Account