Teach myself Accounting

[natshar]

How would I teach myself Intro financial accounting in 48 hours with basically no knowledge of the subject? Any thoughts or suggestions?

[dfrecore]

It's one of the hardest classes I took in college, I don't think it's possible. Sorry

[bjcheung77]

I don't think it's possible in 48 hours, but then again, the entire Modern States courses are 24 hours - yes, 4 weeks, 6 hours a week, total is 24 hours. Plus, if you can knock out that Sophia Accounting course in 24 hours - there is your 48 hours! Go get them cowgirl! Oh oh, and then there's the 24 hour onlinedegree.com accounting course, again roughly 24 hours you can get that done. Last but not least, there are the "youtube" crash course series and a whole slew of other options, just learn the basics with all of these options!

[Old Guy]

If you want credit for intro accounting, sit down with the Sophia course and don't leave until your done. You won't understand accounting until you've actually work with it for a month or two. It is so hard when you don't understand the mechanics and so easy when you do.

[dfrecore]

If you want credit for intro accounting, sit down with the Sophia course and don't leave until your done.  You won't understand accounting until you've actually work with it for a month or two.  It is so hard when you don't understand the mechanics and so easy when you do.

I agree, T-charts and debits and credits are all theory until you make a gazillion journal entries (and all of those ones to correct what you did because instead of doing it right, you doubled everything).

[natshar]

Update:

Sophia: accounting module 1 is finished and started the other modules. Basically did most of it but the milestones. You can't actually learn accounting from sophia maybe learn about accounting. My local CC and other schools have an (optional) intro to accounting course you can take before financial or managerial accounting I feel like this what this would be. Not bad but if anyone took this for their bsba with no accounting knowledge I doubt they know much. They have a section with different jobs people in accounting do which isn't bad but isn't doing accounting. Plus you could just search the answers in the text which isn't really applying the knowledge. I definitely learned a few things but not enough to know the skills. At 99% score for the course so far but I did go slow and carefully and double checked each question. You only have to do 1 question but I did all 3 even if I got the first one right. Also, I am not bashing it or saying it is a bad course though.

onlinedegree.com: Wow! this is amazing. this videos are really good and break it down so I understand. This is far superior to sophias as far as actually learning accounting. I've tried onlinedegree.com before and this is my favorite course from them so far. Not enough practice problems but all the videos repeat so you actually understand the concepts. Over a third of they way done with the course. If anyone is getting a bsba I would recommend this over sophia. Especially if you are a finance or accounting major or plan on getting an mba, probably would prepare you way more. But since Sophia is free right now you could even do both and learn even more.

I actually understand accounting like 300% more than I did yesterday. The internet is amazing.

I do plan on finishing both of these courses soon to 100% progress and get the credit for them.

[bjcheung77]

Update:
I actually understand accounting like 300% more than I did yesterday. The internet is amazing.
I do plan on finishing both of these courses soon to 100% progress and get the credit for them.

Perfect! I understand the accounting courses are hard to grasp in just 48 hours (don't know how you calculate this, either by amount of hours/day and total is 48 hours, or if you meant it was in 2 days), anyways, try working on the two courses from Onlinedegree.com and Sophia.org, I don't recall them duplicating but even if it does, it's what you learn that matters!

[natshar]

Update:
I actually understand accounting like 300% more than I did yesterday. The internet is amazing.
I do plan on finishing both of these courses soon to 100% progress and get the credit for them.

Perfect! I understand the accounting courses are hard to grasp in just 48 hours (don't know how you calculate this, either by amount of hours/day and total is 48 hours, or if you meant it was in 2 days), anyways, try working on the two courses from Onlinedegree.com and Sophia.org, I don't recall them duplicating but even if it does, it's what you learn that matters!

They both duplicate to TESU as Intro to Financial Accounting at least. And since TESU is the only place I'm banking my ACE/NCCRS credits it will double count. Maybe other schools that count differently but I know TESU counts them as the same. There is only onlinedegree.com course and one sophia course so two courses total.