About this course
I explain and demonstrate the many financial accounting concepts that would be covered in an introductory financial accounting course. The order of the videos would approximate the order of topics covered in most accounting texts. However, if you do not have a text you can download " Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective,Volume 1 Financial Accounting" -that is freely available on the net at: Accounting Principles Vol. 1.
This course is designed to take approximately six weeks to complete. You will be provided with all the material needed to complete this course. There are demonstration problems for each chapter that you will attempt and then follow my video solution. There are a number of midterm and final practice exams. When you complete the exams, save them in pdf. and return to me for marking at drjohn@markupsync.com. I will grade your exam and provide feedback as to which areas of the course you could improve on.
When you learn accounting, your a learning the language of business.
At the end of this course you will have a good understanding of business concepts and business terminology.
At the end of this course, you will know how to maintain a general journal and a general ledger as wll as to be able to complete an income statement and balance sheet for a small business using excel spreadsheets.
What are the requirements?
- The textbook is freely available on the net. readings and exercises will be from that text.
- The journal paper anfd ledger forms that you need for this course will be provided.
- The excel spreadsheet files and demonstration problems will be uploaded for you.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 58 lectures and 5.5 hours of content!
- Be able to get an "A" in your college or University Introductory Financial Accounting course.
- Be well prepared to take a more advanced accounting course.
- Be able to do bookkeeping using excel spreadsheets.
- Know enough about accounting to do keep business accounting records for a small business.
What is the target audience?
- College and university business students
- Secondary school students taking a bookkeeping or accounting course in high school.
- Entrepreneurs who want a good understanding of basic accounting.
