Financial Accounting: The Complete Introductory Crash Course

Welcome to the Financial Accounting Crash Course.

This course will provide you with 69 video lessons that span over 10 hours of content (including quizzes to help test your knowledge). Follow along as I explain the basics about assets, liabilities and equity, along with fundamental concepts like the accounting equation, debits and credits, the accounting cycle, financial statements and more!

Financial accounting is the language of business. In business, we use financial accounting to report everything we do. Whether it’s paying our employees, issuing a dividend to shareholders or purchasing a capital asset, we report it. Bookkeeping ensures that we have a history of every economic activity. Summarizing all of these transactions into financial statements provides us with a general snapshot of our performance and position in the marketplace. Having this financial information at our fingertips is key to future planning and decision making.

The first part of the crash course will cover:

• Basics of Financial Accounting
• Assets, Liabilities and Equity
• Debits and Credits and The Double Entry Accounting System
• The Accounting Cycle, including: Journal Entries, T-accounts, General Ledger, Trial Balance Statements, Adjusting Entries, Adjusted Trial Balance Statements, and Closing Entries

The second part of the crash course will cover:

• Merchandise Inventory: Perpetual and Periodic Systems
• Inventory Costing Systems: FIFO, Weighted-average, LIFO
• Receivables and Bad Debts
• Revenue Recognition
• Depreciation and Amortization
• Intangible Assets
• The Cash Flow Statement: Indirect Method

**BONUS: Financial Accounting final exam downloadable .PDF now included at the end of the course!**

HERE’S WHAT SOME STUDENTS OF HAVE TOLD ME ABOUT MY COURSE:

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