Accounting & Financial Statements
Manage your own small business accounting by learning how to create your own own financial statements.
7 lessons, 8 videos (48m), 12 tools
What you’ll learn
What you’ll learn in Accounting and Financial Statements
Learn everything you need to know about financial statements – including how to create your own. It’s all explained in easy to follow videos.
Understand financial statements, become your own accountant and improve your business performance
Small business accounting made easy. This course will show you how to create all the financial statements you need so that you can effectively become your own accountant and better manage your business.
All the key concepts explained. You’ll learn how to create historical and pro forma income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows. You’ll learn how to make budgets and calculate depreciation.
You’ll get templates and samples to help you get started. Plus you’ll get step by step videos that clearly explain what to do. You’ll be able to confidently create all the financial statements you need to run your business.
Includes samples and templates to guide you
Accounting and Financial Statements includes samples and templates to help guide you along
Fill-in-the-blank templates and samples will guide you in creating your financial statements. They will save you time, keep you organized, and ensure that you can manage your business accounting.
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Accounting and Financial Statements Content
If you can add 2 and 2 together, then you have what it takes to do the accounting for your small business. In this lesson, serial entrepreneur Bob Adams tells you what really matters when getting started with accounting. You will discover the most important financial statements you need to create and how you can use your accounting to boost your business’s performance.
(7:04, 2 videos)
In this lesson, you will learn how an income statement works and you will be guided through all the steps of creating your own income statement. You will get a sample income statement as well as a fillable template to help you get going.
(3:40, 1 video, 1 sample, 1 template)
Learn how to prepare your own balance sheet. Bob Adams will walk you through all the steps of the process. You will get a template and a sample to help you create your balance sheet.
(4:51, 1 videos, 1 template, 1 sample)
What is depreciation and how do you calculate it? It’s not as scary as it sounds. In this lesson, you will learn how depreciation works. Bob Adams will show you real examples to help you understand this accounting concept. You will also get a template to calculate depreciation for your business.
(10:12, 1 video, 1 template)
What is a pro forma income statement? What is it used for? How do you create one? In this lesson, Bob Adams answers all these questions and shows you step by step how to build your own pro forma income statement. You will get a template and sample to show you exactly what to do.
(6:06, 1 video, 1 template, 1 sample)
Follow along as Bob Adams explains what a pro forma balance sheet is and shows you step by step how to create your own. You will get a sample and a template to help you get going.
(12:17, 1 video, 1 template, 2 samples)
How do you prepare a pro forma cash flow? What do you use it for? In this lesson, you will learn what to do to create your pro forma cash flow. You will get a sample and template to walk through every single step and show you exactly what to do.
(10:12, 1 video, 1 template, 1 sample)
Instructor
Serial entrepreneur, Harvard MBA and founder of BusinessTown
In this course, Bob shows you exactly how to create your own financial statements and projections. You will learn how to create financial statements the right way – the way Bob was taught to create them at Harvard Business School and the way he creates them in running his businesses.
Bob has mastered the art of starting businesses with very little money, and making them highly profitable. Bob started his book publishing company in his basement apartment with just $1500 and no related experience. He built it into one of the largest independent publishers in the US, achieving industry-leading profit margins. He later sold this business for $40 million.
Bob has written 17 books and created 52 courses that have helped over one million entrepreneurs worldwide. Bob also served on the investment committee of the Watermill Group where he evaluated business plans and helped decide which proposals to fund.
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