Financial Accounting Fundamentals
Completed by Karen Gradowski Lewis
January 7, 2026
12 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
How to use journal entries to record transactions and prepare and use t-accounts to summarize transactions recorded during an accounting period
The three most commonly used financial statements and how they fit together
How to prepare these financial statements based on transactions recorded during an accounting period
How to draw basic conclusions about a company's financial health
Skills you will gain
- Category: Income Statement
- Category: Cash Flows
- Category: General Accounting
- Category: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Category: Bookkeeping
- Category: General Ledger
- Category: Balance Sheet
- Category: Financial Accounting
- Category: Annual Reports
- Category: Accounting
- Category: Accrual Accounting
- Category: Accounting Records
