Financial Accounting
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What is accounting and why do we need it?
Before any entry, any ledger and any statement, there is one question: what is this whole thing for?
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The accounting equation and the elements of the statements
Five elements, one equation — and everything in the financial statements is built from them.
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Double entry: debit and credit
The rule that turns a financial event into a record that balances — and the point where most beginners get stuck.
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The accounting cycle from document to trial balance
The journey a transaction makes: from the paper that proves it, to a balance you can rely on.
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The four financial statements and how to read them
Where everything we have learned ends up: four statements that, read together, tell the whole story of a business.
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