Accounting and bookkeeping courses

Accounting is learned by posting entries, not by watching someone else post them. These online accounting courses give you a journal, a ledger and a spreadsheet in your browser and check every entry and every balance as you go, so you see immediately where a debit or a credit went wrong.

Begin with Bookkeeping Fundamentals: journal entries, debits and credits, ledgers, the trial balance and adjusting entries. Bookkeeping in Practice continues with the monthly jobs of a finance team, such as bank reconciliations, receivables ageing, inventory costing, depreciation and payroll accruals. Advanced Accounting covers leases, deferred tax, revenue allocation, foreign currency and consolidation with non-controlling interest. Managerial & Cost Accounting teaches CVP, break-even, job and process costing and variances, the VAT & Sales Tax course explains net, gross and the VAT return, and Audit & Forensic Analytics shows how auditors test whole populations with sampling, Benford's law and journal-entry tests. The rules are explained in international terms rather than for one country. The courses suit students, junior bookkeepers, small business owners and anyone preparing for accounting interviews or exams.