Accounting Made Easy: A Quick Guide to Financial Accounting (Udemy.com)

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!

Created by: 365 Careers

Produced in 2021

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What you will 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

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

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Course 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:

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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 systemRecording accounting transactionsMaking accounting entriesPreparing Income Statements and Balance SheetsUnderstand 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 isnt 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 youve learnedExcellent support: If you dont understand a concept or you simply want to drop us a line, youll receive an answer within 24 hoursDynamic: We dont want to waste your time! The instructor keeps up a very good pace throughout the whole course.

How come Accounting is so important?

Its 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 corporationsMick Jagger studied accountingSecure Future. Accounting skills remain with you and provide extra security. You wont ever have to fear unemploymentGirls dig accountants! Guys who can tell the difference between debits and credits are proven to be the most popular with women

Please dont forget that the course comes with Udemys 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 AnalystsAspiring Investment BankersAspiring Financial ControllersBusiness OwnersAccounting StudentsAnyone wishing to understand a company's financialsAnyone wishing to be successful in the world of Business & Finance

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Instructor Details

365 Careers

365 Careers is the #1 best-selling provider of finance courses on Udemy. The companys courses have been taken by more than 1,000,000 students in 210countries. 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 SQLandTableau, the integration of SQL, Python, Tableau, PowerBI, 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
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By Tri Wahono on 11/22/2020

a usefull & quick guidance to financial accounting

By Martin F Pea Llanos on 11/21/2020

Excelente curso que da un gran pantallazo general sobre la contabilidad.

By Napo Maranyane on 11/21/2020

informative and straight to the meat

By David Loosmore on 11/11/2020

An excellent refresher on fundamentals of Financial Accounting.

By Osiline Herrera on 11/11/2020

A great course it cemented my foundation for Accounting principles. Thank you!!

By Pulijala Deepthi on 10/24/2020

Very understandable for beginners .. :)

By Mohamed Ismail on 10/22/2020

Extremely well explained and easy to understand course to learn the basics of Financial Accounting. Highly recommended for beginners

By Scott Brownell on 10/16/2020

Great, entry level breakdown of the course materials. Looking forward to continuing through additional courses with this as my foundation.

By Ibrahim njoroge on 10/15/2020

Good

By 213849 - Pulla Rao Chilakala on 10/12/2020

its nice but repeated the same topics from previous videos

By Anonymized User on 10/6/2020

Basic course for new employees to remind/sum up the knowledge.

By Andrea Turner on 10/4/2020

Learned a lot about Financial accounting, easy course to follow