In this second course, you will dive deeper into the world of bookkeeping and focus on accounting for assets. If you are familiar with bookkeeping basics, such as double entry accounting, you are ready for this course. You will gain an understanding of common asset types, learn how to account for inventory, calculate cost of goods sold, and work with Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E). Upon completing this course, you will use your new knowledge of assets to record transactions and produce financial statements for increasingly complex business situations.

Tracking assets and sales

Tracking assets and sales
This course is part of Intuit Academy Bookkeeping Professional Certificate

Instructor: Intuit Academy Team
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What you'll learn
Summarize the common types of assets a business may have.
Describe the importance of control over inventory.
Outline how depreciation expense is reported on an income statement.
Illustrate how transactions can be recorded in terms of the resulting change in the elements of the accounting equation.
Skills you'll gain
- Property Accounting
- Financial Statements
- Inventory Control
- Accounting Records
- Gross Profit
- General Ledger
- Ledgers (Accounting)
- Accounting
- Accounts Receivable
- Financial Reporting
- Inventory Accounting
- Depreciation
- Asset Management
- Bookkeeping
- Fixed Asset
- Payment Processing and Collection
- Business Reporting
- Financial Accounting
- Cash Receipts
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Reviewed on May 19, 2023
I found the course to be excellent! The course was easy to understand quizzes were great to determine if you were assimilating the information. The tests were comprehensive.
Reviewed on Jul 14, 2025
There are issues in the scoring of assignments that need to be addressed and resolved. I have noted several but have not received any correspondence indicating concern over the issues.
Reviewed on Dec 2, 2022
It was very informational but difficult at times to understand some of the concepts in the videos because she talks too fast. But I learned alot throughout this course.
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