The Complete Introduction To Accounting and Finance (Udemy.com)
The Original Course on Accounting & Finance! It's easy once you know the basics. Learn introductory accounting & finance
Created by: Chris Benjamin
Last updated October 2022
What you will learn
- Learn From A Top Rated Instructor Who Has Been Teaching On Udemy Since 2013 and Taught Over 100,000 Students!
- Understand Basic Accounting Concepts
- Accounting Terminology
- Accounting Fundamentals
- The Audit Process
- The Accounting Cycle
- Debits and Credits
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Forecasting and Budgeting
- Interpreting Financial Statements
- Balance Sheets
- Income Statements
- Statement of Cash Flows
- Inventory Accounting and Cost Accounting
- Waterfall Reporting
- How to Raise Funds For Your Business
- The IPO Process
- Exit Strategies
How it compares
Against the other 376 rated Udemy courses in Finance & Accounting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 68% of them
- Reviews2,269#64 of 377 by number of reviews
- Length8.3 hourslonger than 68% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2022earlier than 78% of them
Course Description
Are You An Entrepreneur or Small Business Owner?
Does Accounting Seem Overwhelming?
Do Numbers And Financial Reports Confuse You?
Would You Like To Learn Accounting & Finance in a Fun & Easy Way?
If You Answered "Yes" To Any Of The Above, Look No Further. This Is The Course For You!
*** Updated with new content! ***
Enroll today and join the 100,000+ successful students I have taught as a Top Rated Udemy instructor!
Three reasons to TAKE THIS COURSE right now:
You get lifetime access to lectures, including all new lectures, assignments, quizzes and downloads I add
You can ask me questions and see me respond to every single one of them thoroughly! This is an interactive course!
You will are being taught by a professional with a proven track record of success!
Bonus reason: Udemy has a 30 day 100% no questions asked money back guarantee!
Recent review:
"Excellent course! I was looking for an introductory course to accounting and finance as I am an investor in early stage startups, and accounting/finance always seems to be an area which is confusing for founders. Chris Benjamin definitely has used his real world experience and education to create a course which teaches entrepreneurs and startups everything they should know from the start about accounting and finance. Kudos!" - JT Lexington, Maven Capital
What Do You & I Cover In This Course?
This course teaches entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses all things business accounting and entrepreneurial finance related, A to Z. Starting with an introduction to accounting concepts, we move into financial reports and how to create them, understand them and analyze them. Bookkeepers, Accountants, CFO's and Business Owners alike would all benefit from this course.
Next, we learn about budgeting and forecasting. Next we discuss growing your company, how to understand and analyze it using non conventional reports.
After growing your company, we talk about raising capital and what is involved and avenues you can take. One section is devoted to the initial public offering process and the timing, costs and best business practices involved.
Last, we discuss exit strategies and how to give your investors and yourself a payoff for your hard work.
This course is truly a start to finish of accounting and finance. At over 12 hours long, I wanted to make sure you will feel empowered and educated after taking the course.
I Will Help You Throughout The Course!
At any point during the course if you are confused or need clarification, send me a message! I'm here to help YOU the student, and I love interacting with you. I've been in accounting & finance over 20 years and can most likely answer your question.
I have also included a copy of my ebook "Fund Your Startup by Chris Benjamin" which you will find as a download in the last lecture. Learn your options for funding, where to find investors, how to wow them, and lastly the must do steps to successful funding!
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About The Instructor
Chris Benjamin, MBA & CFO is a seasoned professional with over 25 years experience in accounting and finance. Having spent the first 10 years of my career in corporate settings with both large and small companies, I learned a lot about the accounting process, managing accounting departments, financial reporting, external reporting to board of directors and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and working with external auditors.
The following 10+ years I decided to go into CFO Consulting, working with growing companies and bringing CFO level experience to companies. I help implement proper best business practices in accounting and finance, consult on implementation of accounting systems, implementing accounting procedures, while also still fulfilling the CFO roll for many of my clients which includes financial reporting, auditing, working with investors, financial analysis and much more.
Thank you for signing up for this course on Udemy. I look forward to being your instructor for this course and many more!
Chris Benjamin, Instructor, CFO & MBA
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
2,269 Reviews
Chris Benjamin
Welcome Students,
I have been teaching on Udemy since 2011 (over 15 years) and have created 88 courses on Udemy with 100,000+ students! I love teaching on online, and empowering students with knowledge in accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, Excel and other business topics.
In my day to day life, I work as a consulting CFO, Chief Financial Officer. Mainly I work with growth stage companies, helping them put in place all the best accounting practices, financial modelling, working with investors, and financial reporting and analysis.
I have worked as a CFO exclusively to growing companies for 10+ years, bringing my past corporate experience, my passion for the entrepreneur community, and experience helping over 100+ startups succeed.
Now let me take my knowledge and experience and teach you!
All courses come with lifetime access, friendly support if you get stuck and a 30 day money-back guarantee so there's no risk to get started.
See you in class.
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Specialties: MBA, Startup & growth-stage experience, raising capital, financial forecasts, business plans, virtual CFO, cash management, growth strategy, policy & procedure implementation, financial modelling, SEC reporting, accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, Excel, and much more.
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Reviews
By Rikki Singh on 8/14/2025
The instructor is very knowledgeable and organized. It served as a wonderful overview, as I am new to the field. The pace of the course is great. I especially enjoyed the topics and insights on Raising Capital, Exit Strategies, and Going Public.
By Jayrajsinh Dodia on 10/16/2023
definitely good content for every budding entrepreneur, just little feedback there might need to be some more in depth instruction or guiding process for finanacial forecast like how you can prepare your own documents with live in lecture process to of proper document creation for example income statement document. well it was really good lectures of different aspects of accountings and finance.
By Martin Kock on 5/29/2023
Overall great walkthrough, and I learned a few things that I hadn't expected to gain from. Going public, the IPO process etc. was very interesting. On the other hand, I would have loved to see more effort put into the financial statement analysis (basically the part that made me sign up for the course). It was still a great introduction, but maybe provide some more direct links or resources where people can find more information and build on top of this knowledge?
By Justine THERAUD on 2/21/2023
Fantastic course if you are looking for an introduction to Accounting and Finance. All sections have support documents for you to go deeper into the topics that interest you the most. At the end of the course, Chris shares the business trends of the current year so you can be sure that the course is updated and the content is correct. I recommend :)
By Katie Jackson on 10/27/2022
This has been a great introduction to accounting. As someone who has a little experience with financial reports but who needs more fluency to analyze and understand them, taking this course has been really helpful. The instructor makes the concepts easy to understand and apply.
By Andrea Handog Magahis on 6/18/2022
I am enjoying it! Chris is a little bit faster but it's a good thing that I can go back whenever I want to and he I really explaining it so clearly. I love his way of teaching. I am a total beginner with excel and I am learning. I am so excited! I am so glad that I picked this course. Thanks Chris!
By Vasileios Terzis on 10/12/2021
This course met all my expectations. The course material was well structured, it was easy to read with all the necessary details. The instructor was very organized professional with obvious knowledge of accounting and business. Overall I am very satisfied and i would recommend this course in the future!
By Maria Abraham on 5/3/2020
All concepts were very well and clearly explained. This was exactly what I was looking for. However, I think #23 (Statement of Cash Flows Preparation - Indirect Method) and secondary markets under Exit Strategies could have been better explained without increasing the lecture duration - I ended up looking up other videos (of 5-10 mins each) to understand these better.
By Mohamad-Rabih Helwani on 4/2/2020
This has been a wonderful introduction to a topic I had no information about at all beforehand. Chris definitely provided a lot of definitions in the beginning and guided students slowly throughout the course explaining everything as needed. The samples included helped the topics being explained clearer rather than just being abstract, and it gave me the curiosity to see even more samples online. Overall, this course has added way more to my knowledge about this subject, and I'm looking to expand on that knowledge in the future.
By Kenny Jacobson on 1/20/2019
This is a lot of great basic (and maybe intermediate) info on Accounting for startups. As the technical co-founder of a SaaS company, I wished I would have watched this before we started the company. I had a very rudimentary understanding of accounting before, but I would have been able to ask a lot more important questions about the business had I watched this.
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