Bookkeeping From Scratch
Most owners learn bookkeeping in the worst possible order — they open QuickBooks first and try to reverse-engineer the concepts from the buttons. This course runs the other way. You will learn what the books are actually modelling, then set them up once, correctly, and close your first month with numbers you trust.
4 lessons · about 15 minutes total
By the end you can
- Explain what an account, a debit and a credit actually are — without memorising rules
- Choose between cash and accrual basis for your business, and say why
- Build a chart of accounts that produces a P&L you can read
- Close a month end to end and know that it is right
The syllabus.
- 1
What Bookkeeping Actually Is (And Why It Looks So Strange)
Start with the thing nobody explains: bookkeeping is not data entry. It is a model of your business, and once you see the model the rest stops being memorisation.
4 min read
- 2
Debits and Credits, Finally Explained
The single concept that makes every other lesson easy — and the reason your accountant's software never lets a number go missing.
4 min read
- 3
Cash vs. Accrual: Which Basis Should Your Business Use?
This one choice decides whether your P&L tells you the truth about a good month. Most small businesses pick by accident. Pick on purpose.
3 min read
- 4
Building a Chart of Accounts You Can Actually Read
Your chart of accounts is the outline of every report you will ever read. Set it up wrong and your P&L stays useless no matter how clean the entries are.
4 min read
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