The 2022 Ultimate Finance & Accounting Certification Bundle provides 64 hours of content about the fundamentals of accounting, corporate and personal finance, and more!
Personal Finance #1 Goals, Planning & Time Value of Money
Learn Core Personal Finance Concepts From a Practicing Certified Public Accountant
This course will cover the core introductory concepts related to personal finance. It includes many example problems, both in the format of presentations and Excel worksheet problems. The Excel worksheet presentations will include a downloadable Excel workbook with at least two tabs, one with the answer, the second with a preformatted worksheet that can be completed in a step-by-step process along with the instructional videos. This course will discuss what personal finance is and the differences between personal finance, corporate finance, economics, and accounting are. Learners will also understand why knowing personal finance concepts is important. You will know how to set goals using a formal structure and process based on your personal life situations. This course also covers the time value of money concepts, including present value and future value calculations. Time value of money concepts will be important whenever we are making long-term plans, such as retirement plans or a child’s college education funding plan.
- Access 89 lectures & 22 hours of content 24/7
- How to define personal finance
- How to set financial goals based on your personal life situation
- Explain the difference between finance, economics, & accounting
- Define time value of money concepts & how they can be used in long-term planning
- Calculate present value using multiple methods including Excel
- Calculate future value using multiple methods including Excel
- Calculate the present value of an annuity using multiple methods including Excel
- Calculate the future value of an annuity using multiple methods including Excel
Personal Finance #2- Financial Statements & Budgeting
Learn How to Construct Personal Financial Statements & Budgets from a Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
This course will focus on personal financial statements, a fundamental tool for personal financial planning. This course will include many example problems, both in the format of presentations and Excel worksheet problems. The Excel worksheet presentations will include a downloadable Excel workbook with at least two tabs, one with the answer, the second with a preformatted worksheet that can be completed in a step-by-step process along with the instructional videos. Financial statements are the core tool we used to measure our current financial position as well as our past performance. The balance sheet and income statement are our major financial statements. Learners will know how to construct financial statements and how the balance sheet and income statement are related. Learners will know how to construct a personal financial budget. We will also discuss common personal ratios used to measure performance.
- Access 33 lectures & 10 hours of content 24/7
- How to read personal financial statements
- How to create a personal balance sheet
- How to create a personal income statement
- List and understand how to use personal bookkeeping tools
- How to create a personal budget
Personal Finance #3-Financial Services & Bank Reconciliation
Learn About Financial Services, Financial Institutions, & How to Create a Personal Bank Reconciliation from a CPA
This course will focus on the importance of performing the bank reconciliation process and how to complete bank reconciliation. This course will include many example problems, both in the format of presentations and Excel worksheet problems. The Excel worksheet presentations will include a downloadable Excel workbook with at least two tabs, one with the answer, the second with a preformatted worksheet that can be completed in a step-by-step process along with the instructional videos. Learners will understand basic money management strategies and tax planning strategies. This course will discuss the difference between a marginal tax rate and an average tax rate and how to use the appropriate tax rate when making financial plans. Also, the course will discuss the importance of reconciling the bank account, the bank reconciliation process is a big internal control over cash.
- Access 40 lectures & 8 hours of content 24/7
- How to apply money management strategies
- How to apply tax management strategies
- Explain the difference between marginal tax rate and average tax rate and how to use the proper rate when planning
- Describe the difference between tax deductions and tax credits and how to use this information when doing tax planning
- List the different tax filing statuses and their impact on the tax calculation
- Explain the different tax preparation options and the pros and cons related to them
- List common financial services needed by individuals
- List financial institutions and the services they provide
- Describe what a bank reconciliation is
- Complete a personal bank reconciliation
Basics of Accounting
Accounting Concepts & Principles for Complete Beginners
This course is for learners and beginners in the area of accounting. The purpose of this course is to explain about the various types of methods pertaining to accounting. This course focuses on teaching Basics of accounting, T accounts and general ledger, Cost management, Measurement concepts, Costing systems, Financial statements, and decisions analysis, Basics of financial statement analysis, Vertical and horizontal analysis, Financial ratios- profitability, Corporate finance, and investment decisions, Capital budgeting process, etc. In addition, learners will also be accompanied by practical examples related to the various accounting standards. This course will master your skills in accounting, make elaborate cost records regarding various products, operations, and functions. And this tutorial will help you determine and accumulate the cost of a particular product or activity.
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- Access 40 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
- Learn the basics of accounting
- Familiarize with T accounts & general ledger
- Learn about recognition, measurement, valuation, & disclosures
- Manage costs
- Learn measurement concepts
- Learn the different costing systems
- Analyze financial statements & decisions
- Analyze the basics of financial statement
- Learn vertical & horizontal analysis
- Learn about financial ratios- profitability
- Know how long-term financial management works
- Familiarize with planning, budgeting, & forecasting
- Accounting for non-finance managers
Cost Management
Method of Cost Management & Example, Overview of Cost Accounting, Direct and Indirect Cost Accounting, Cost Estimation, etc.
In this tutorial, you will learn the various types of costing methods. In this course, you will get a brief overview of what cost accounting is all about and how it is relevant in the organizational scenario. Then, we will talk about cost terms and purposes. Under the terms, you will learn the direct and indirect cost accounting, for example of the behavior of the cost, cost function & cost estimation, the high low method, an example of the high low method of cost. We’ll walk you through the theory and practical examples used in different scenarios. You will understand the various aspects of the costing method. You will see the cost terms and purposes and what cost accounting is all about and how it is relevant in the organizational scenario. Then we will look at the practical examples of cost. Further, this course is going to cover definitions, theories, examples. In this course, you will find great tools used in business that will aid the decision-making process. You will be able to identify and use important accounting information, identify and analyze various alternatives (projects, investments), and choose the best. Cost accounting will first measure and record the costs individually, then compare input costs to output results to aid in measuring financial performance and making future business decisions.
- Access 45 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
- Learn actual costing
- Familiarize with different types of costs
- Operate income
- Split off sales value
- Get the net realizable value
- Compute constant gross profit & more
Corporate Finance & Investment Decisions
Managing Working Capital, Factors for Capital Structure, Term of Funding Risk Appetite & Corporate Strategy
This course module offers a concise overview of the foundations of finance, with an emphasis on their relevance to a broad range of real-world contexts, including personal finance, business decision-making, and financial intermediation. You’ll develop a solid understanding of corporate finance, from accounting concepts and financial analysis, how competitive markets produce demand, the choices companies make when making financial decisions, and risk attitudes. You’ll also learn how to identify and control credit risk, as well as how to handle financial difficulties. The mechanisms of dividends and equity repurchases will be discussed, as well as how to pick the right way to return capital to owners. You’ll also discover how to use derivatives and liquidity control to mitigate particular types of financial risk, such as currency risk. This Course is an attempt to avoid the above extremes. We discuss the core basis and mechanisms of modern corporate finance in a learner-friendly way. We will analyze the market’s most fundamental problems, realize the intrinsic interests and preferences of investors, reveal the true meaning of specific financial terms, and uncover important issues that are so often ignored in choosing and valuing investment projects.
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- Access 27 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
- Learn about financing growth
- Manage working capital
- Learn about capital structure
- Know what leverage is
- Know the factors for capital structure
- Learn about funding terms
- Familiarize with risk appetite & corporate strategy
- Learn more about corporate strategy with market conditions & more
Financial Statement & Decision Analysis
Managing Working Capital, Factors for Capital Structure, Term of Funding Risk Appetite & Corporate Strategy
The course explains the basic material of financial statements in a clear and important context by visiting a real enterprise and interviewing real business people. The course’s aim is to leave students with a lasting understanding of what a balance sheet is and what it shows. This training is aimed at non-financial mid-to senior-level executives from all sectors and functional areas. This course would benefit executives in communications, distribution, human resources, manufacturing, or engineering, as well as general managers who have been advanced along these paths, through their knowledge of financial analysis. After completing the program, you will be better able to communicate the financial goals and performances of your department within your organization as well as to outside sources. So, at the end of this course, you won’t just know how to read financial statements in general; you’ll also know how to relate them to your own company’s financial statements, giving you a much greater view of your own company’s financial success and what you can/need to do to either sustain or enhance it.
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- Access 57 lectures & 7 hours of content 24/7
- Know more about vertical & horizontal analysis
- Familiarize with Cash flows & asset efficiency
- Understand annual report
- Learn about balance sheet horizontal
- Learn how to analyze income statements
- Learn about cash flow
- Learn how DuPont analysis works
Financial Budgeting & Forecasting for Business
Learn Budgeting and Forecasting, Principles and Concept of Costing, Direct Cost and Indirect Cost, Overhead Allocation
This course will teach you how to budget and forecast from the ground up. This course is designed to prepare people for budgeting and forecasting as well as familiarize them with the process. Budgeting plays an important role in all organizations, so this will support them in their career. When budgeting is performed right, it has a number of advantages. Understanding and contributing to the budgeting process will help you become a more valuable employee or a more effective business owner. Teamwork, coordination, and quality development are all helped by budgeting. After all, most of us are not at ease in the accounting world. This course is suitable for motivated workers and business owners who want to increase their appreciation and make a more important contribution to the budgeting process. This course will explain capital budgeting fundamentals, including how to measure Net Present Values as well as which approach should be used in project assessments, as each method has its own set of drawbacks and benefits.
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- Access 58 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
- Learn the principles & concept of costing
- Understand Direct Cost & Indirect Cost
- Learn what Overhead Allocation is
- Learn how to allocate Indirect Cost
