Overview

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WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THE ACCOUNTING COURSE?
The important topics that will be covered in the accounting course are:

* Basic accounting concepts, principles and terminology.
* Debits and credits.
* Double entry accounting.
* Types of business entities and enterprises (and their advantages and disadvantages).
* How to set-up and keep a set of books for a small business.
* How to journalize business transactions.
* How to reconcile your bank account.
* How to adjust the books at the end of the fiscal period.
* How to post to a general ledger.
* How to compute payroll.
* How to depreciate assets.
* How to create and understand a Balance Sheet.
* How to create and understand an Income Statement (also called a Profit and Loss Statement or P & L).

Objectives

~~here's a short list of the people it might benefit.
Are you ...
* an entrepreneur?
* running a small business?
* running a home business?
* a professional running your own practice?
* just starting your own business?
* thinking of starting your own business?
* a manager in a company?
* an office manager with bookkeeping duties?
* an administrative assistant with bookkeeping duties?
* a bookkeeper or accounting clerk who has learned on the job and needs to understand the concepts in order to do your job better or be promoted?
* an investor who would like to understand where the numbers are coming from on the financial statements that you read?
* Someone who has taken an academic accounting course and still doesn't know a debit from a credit?