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Business Accounting Basics

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Course Features

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Duration

5 weeks

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Delivery Method

Online

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Available on

Limited Access

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Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

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Language

English

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Subtitles

English

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Level

Beginner

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Effort

5 hours per week

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Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Whether you are starting your own business or supplementing your understanding of accounting, this business course will help you understand accounting basics and give you meaningful financial tools to understand business.

Understanding the four basic financial statements, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Retained Earnings, and Statement of Cash Flows, is key to evaluating companies for your investment decisions. But this business course goes beyond just understanding these financial statements. Business Accounting Basics takes you through the building blocks and accounting cycles that create each statement. In addition, this course will give you the basic tools to project profitability and break your costs down to help analyze any company.

This course is built to fit the needs of everyone, including those who have a 401k, other retirement plans or want to invest in different companies.

Course Overview

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Live Class

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Human Interaction

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Personlized Teaching

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International Faculty

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Post Course Interactions

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Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

Basic mathematical concepts; some algebra

What You Will Learn

Necessary accounting terminology and concepts

The basics of the four financial statements

The building blocks of financial accounting

The different accounting cycles in a business break-even analysis, target profit analysis, and degree of operating leverage

Course Instructors

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Kimberly Fatten

Certified Public Accountant at Purdue University

Kimberly Fatten is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of industry experience in manufacturing, construction, insurance, and education. She has a BS in Accounting from Indiana State Univ...
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