This course is designed for those interested to learn the basics of bookkeeping in an easy to understand terms and concept.
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15+ years teaching college and 25+ years coaching business owners brings Ron to the forefront helping students learn using using simple, easy language
About This Course
Who this course is for:
- This course is designed for both new and established small business owners and managers who may be strong in their own fields but want a better understanding of the basic concepts of tracking their company finances as well as students beginning the journey of learning bookkeeping.
- A stronger grasp of these basic concepts helps every area of business from communicating with their CPA’s/tax advisors to making better decisions for the company and employees; to students learning to communicate with their instructors.
What you’ll learn:
- What is Income and how do you track it?
- Which types of Expenses can be claimed by your business
- The difference between Assets, Liabilities and Equity
- The Five W’s of Bookkeeping
- Transactions, The Fundamental Financial Equation and Charts of Accounts
- Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables
- Reading Financial Reports
- Business Odds and Ends such as Mileage Tracking, Credit Terms, Shipping and Freight, Trade Discounts
- The Top 10 Mistakes Small Businesses Make
- The Top 6 Tips for Good Bookkeeping
Requirements:
- As long as you know how to add and subtract (or can use a calculator!), you’re ready to begin!
It takes a lot to be able to understand how to run a business. Whether you’re the owner, an employee or even a student trying to understand how everything works. You may have a full range of talent in your specific field, but that doesn’t mean you’re strong in every area of running a business. And that’s how this course approaches the material.
Using simple, easy-to-understand discussion, along with full color illustrated note sheets and samples, this course with over 50 video lessons teaches you the basic fundamentals of how money is tracked and what that means to your business or project.
The course provides beginners understanding of the basic concepts using everyday examples along with common phrases and terms to teach that “other language” of bookkeeping and for you to feel more confident in working with vendors, customers, employees, investors, instructors and more!
Our Promise to You
By the end of this course, you will have learned the basics of bookkeeping.
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Course Curriculum
| Section 1 - Course Introduction | |||
| Introduction – Course Overview | 00:00:00 | ||
| Introductions And Off – Course Resources | 00:00:00 | ||
| Downloadable Materials And Quizzes | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 2 - Money And Its Relationship To Business | |||
| Before We Start – Business Vs. Personal | 00:00:00 | ||
| Why Worry About The Money? | 00:00:00 | ||
| What Kind Of Business Are You? | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Four Business Types | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 3 - Let's Understand What We're Talking About | |||
| What And Why | 00:00:00 | ||
| Who | 00:00:00 | ||
| When And Where | 00:00:00 | ||
| Consistency Is The Key | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 4 - The Tools | |||
| Section Intro | 00:00:00 | ||
| Transactions | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Big Equation: A = L + E | 00:00:00 | ||
| Accounts And The Chart Of Accounts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Sample Charts Of Accounts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Bookkeeping Basics: Understand the Fundamentals | Unlimited | ||
| Section 5 - Here Comes The Money - Income And Revenue | |||
| How Are You Actually Making Money? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Invoices, Receipts And Statements | 00:00:00 | ||
| If You Are Invoicing | 00:00:00 | ||
| Invoice Samples | 00:00:00 | ||
| Not All Money Coming In Is Income | 00:00:00 | ||
| Bookkeeping Basics: Understand the Fundamentals | Unlimited | ||
| Section 6 - There Goes The Money - Expenses | |||
| What Are Expenses? | 00:00:00 | ||
| What Does It Cost To Make or Acquire The Product? – COGS | 00:00:00 | ||
| Organizing The Expenses | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Stamp | 00:00:00 | ||
| Bookkeeping Basics: Understand the Fundamentals | Unlimited | ||
| Section 7 - The Other Big Three | |||
| Section Intro | 00:00:00 | ||
| It’s Just “Stuff” – Assets | 00:00:00 | ||
| Can You Break A $100 Bill? – Asset Shift | 00:00:00 | ||
| The Company Owes What? – Liabilities | 00:00:00 | ||
| But What’s Really Mine? – Equity | 00:00:00 | ||
| Bookkeeping Basics: Understand the Fundamentals | Unlimited | ||
| Section 8 - Who Owes Whom? | |||
| Put It On My Tab – Accounts Payable | 00:00:00 | ||
| You Want To Pay When? – Accounts Receivable | 00:00:00 | ||
| What If They Don’t Pay? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 9 - For The Record Books | |||
| How Are You Doing And How Do You Know? | 00:00:00 | ||
| Cash Reporting Versus Accrual Reporting | 00:00:00 | ||
| Am I Making Profit? – P And L Report | 00:00:00 | ||
| Where Do I Stand Right Now? – The Balance Sheet | 00:00:00 | ||
| Am I Worth Anything? – The Owner’s Equity Reports | 00:00:00 | ||
| What’s Owed To Me and By Me – The A/P and A/R Reports | 00:00:00 | ||
| Bookkeeping Basics: Understand the Fundamentals | Unlimited | ||
| Section 10 - Odds And Ends | |||
| Introduction | 00:00:00 | ||
| Mileage Tracking | 00:00:00 | ||
| Terms And Cash Discounts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Trade Discounts | 00:00:00 | ||
| Shipping And Freight | 00:00:00 | ||
| Good Record Keeping | 00:00:00 | ||
| Top 10 Mistakes Small Businesses Make | 00:00:00 | ||
| Top 6 Tips For Good Bookkeeping | 00:00:00 | ||
| Section 11 - So Now What? | |||
| Can I Get Some Help and Our Course Recap | 00:00:00 | ||
Course Review
5.0
12 Ratings
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He explains everything in Layman's Terms and teaches how to apply each concept to your business
I’ve taken a couple of other bookkeeping courses in the past, but they weren’t great as they glossed over too many things. After seeing the reviews for Ron’s courses, I thought this would be a great place to start back again for a good overall understanding before tightening up my knowledge with courses specifically for professional bookkeeping. I like that Ron explains everything in Layman’s Terms and appreciate that he is very responsive in the group. He quickly (within 24 hours) and thoroughly helped me with the one part I got stuck on in this course. I like that there were self-test quizzes at the end of almost every section (in the downloads) and the answer key tells you exactly which lesson(s) covered each question. The quizzes showed me where I didn’t understand one or two things completely, so I went back to those lessons to catch what hadn’t sunk in for me the first time. I also like how with every lesson, there was a “Project” which gets you to think about how to apply each concept to your business, so your understanding isn’t just abstract. I’m very happy with what I learned in this Basics of Bookkeeping course and the next course (Mechanics of Bookkeeping) and am about to begin Ron’s 3rd course (QB Desktop Fundamentals) in his 4-course Basics of Bookkeeping series.
Much Needed information
This course was so helpful!! It broke down things I need to really consider when collecting information and some information I never knew I needed to keep track of and why!
CLEAR, SIMPLE, WELL EXPLAINED
I thought that bookkeeping was way more complicated and never approached the matter. Now I understand that with a little guidance is not that scary anymore!
Understandable in plain language
Thank you, it cleared a lot of points I was having problems with. Very educational.
Great for beginners
I learned a lot on this course.