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Online Class: Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Finance for Non Accountants

Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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3.0 CEUs

Course Description

"Introduction to Accounting, Bookkeeping, and Finance for Non Accountants" is a course that covers the fundamentals of accounting with the newcomer in mind. Accounting is more than just memorizing terms and procedures; it's a whole new way of thinking about finances. This course assumes students have no prior knowledge about accounting or finance, and delivers lessons and examples to build accounting skills. Specifically, this class addresses accounting terminology, revenue, expenses, net income, the accounting equation, debits, credits, and balancing the accounting formula, the accounting structure, the accounting cycle, journals, ledgers, the trial balance and more. It also guides students to learn how to read financial statements properly, and how to grab meaningful information from the balance sheet, income statements and cash flow statements.

After completing this course, you will have a solid understanding of accounting in today's world. By applying the concepts learned in this course, you will understand the processes behind Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, you will understand how and why financial transactions are documented, you will know what cash flow is and how to improve it, you will know what profit is, how it's interpreted, and what influences its growth. Moreover, you will know where the money in the company you work for, or own, goes. Learn accounting now and achieve a skill that is an invaluable (if not required) asset to your professional development.

This course offers 3.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

Introduction to Accounting: Why accounting is a necessary skill - Accounting is the "language of business". Great managers of any organization must know accounting fundamentals and have a solid understanding of how to read financial statements.
The History of Accounting - Throughout history, accountants have made sizable contributions to the development of cities, trade, and industry not to mention the formulation of the practice by which numbers came to represent wealth.
The Fundamentals of Accounting - Basic terms, Assets, Liabilities, Owners' Equity, Accounting Equation, Business Types, Bookkeeping, Auditing, GAAP
Assets, Liabilities and Owners' Equity - In this lesson we'll cover assets, liabilities, and Owners' Equity.
Financial Reports - This lesson covers basic information regarding financial reports.
The Income Statement - This lesson explains what income statements are and determination of expenses vs revenue.
The Income Statement: Understanding Revenue, Expenses, Income, and Retained Earnings - Purpose of the Income Statement; How to read the Income Statement; What are Retained Earnings, Revenue, Expenses, Net Income, Income Tax, Cash Accounting, Accrual Accounting
Worksheet Problems: Income Statement, Revenue, Expenses, Net Income - This lesson contains workbook problems to solidfy your understanding of revenue, expenses, and net income.
The Balance Sheet - This lesson includes the definition of a balance sheet and the pros and cons of off balance-sheets.
Worksheet Problems: The Balance Sheet - How to balance the fundamental accounting equation; Debits and Credits; "T" Accounting; Double Entry Accounting; Diagrams and Charts; Real World Example;
Worksheet Problems for Accounting Equation, Debits & Credits - Real world examples of debits and credits and how to balance the accounting equation.
The Accounting Structure: A Closer Look - Recording Transactions; Source Documents; General Journal; General Ledger; Trial Balance
Bookkeeping 101 - This lesson describes the differences between bookkeeping and accounting and the resposibilities, liabilities, and certification available in becoming a bookkeeper.
Bookkeeping: Dos and Don'ts - This lesson details how to effectively record data, and the mistakes to avoid.
The Accounting Cycle - Learn all the elements of the accounting cycle, from what occurs at the beginning of the Accounting Period, to the generation of financial reports and an independent audit at the end of the Accounting Period.
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