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  1. I packed a lot into this one! Here are the timestamps if you’d like to skip to a section…

    ⏱️TIMESTAMPS
    00:00 – Intro
    00:16 – What is Financial Accounting?
    01:11 – STEP 1: IDENTIFY TRANSACTIONS
    01:29 – STEP 2: PREPARE JOURNAL ENTRIES
    01:32 – What is a Journal Entry?
    01:36 – What does a Journal Entry look like?
    02:05 – What is Double Entry Accounting?
    02:58 – What is the Accounting Equation?
    04:17 – STEP 3: POST TO GENERAL LEDGER
    04:22 – What is the General Ledger?
    04:43 – Posting to Accounts
    04:49 – What is an Account?
    04:58 – The 6 Types of Account – Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue, Expenses & Dividends
    05:21 – What are T-Accounts?
    06:00 – What does the General Ledger look like?
    06:18 – STEP 4: UNADJUSTED TRIAL BALANCE
    06:22 – What is a Trial Balance?
    06:43 – How to build a Trial Balance
    07:10 – Why is it called Trial Balance?
    07:28 – STEP 5: POST ADJUSTING ENTRIES
    07:32 – What are Adjusting Entries?
    07:40 – IFRS vs GAAP
    08:21 – What is the Accrual Method of Accounting?
    08:41 – Adjusting Entries Example
    10:14 – STEP 6: ADJUSTED TRIAL BALANCE
    10:41 – STEP 7: CREATE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
    10:44 – What are Financial Statements?
    10:59 – What are the three types of Financial Statements?
    11:10 – What is the Balance Sheet?
    11:28 – What is the Income Statement?
    11:43 – Profit vs Cash Flow
    11:54 – What is the Cash Flow Statement?
    12:04 – Who would use Financial Statements?
    12:34 – STEP 8: POST CLOSING ENTRIES
    12:41 – What are Closing Entries?
    12:51 – Closing Entries Example
    13:10 – Post Closing Trial Balance
    13:20 – THE ACCOUNTING CYCLE

    1. This is one of the best ‘clear & upto to the point with real world use case’ explanations of accounting in a span of 15 minutes. Thanks a lot man !

    2. Best video which I only needed to watch to clear all my basic doubts about financing and a huge request for more such videos like financial ratios ROE,ROA, ROS, etc ….. u know it as ur the champion of it all😄. A lot of love and support.

    3. Im confused is the credit side where money is being removed from the customers accounts and the debit side where its put into your account?

  2. Thanks for explaining and using examples simply to understand helps to have a refresher when accounting is a struggle in the beginning 🙂

  3. Thank you for this , I really hoped if there was an Arabic subtitle it would’ve helped a lot

  4. I found your channel very educational and worth subbing. thanks for the apploads ! a fellow creator

  5. tysmmmmm for this im starting accouting course I failed two times I hopefully pass this one while watching your videos tuesday is the introduction day and watched it even before the first class I feel I will understand more now

  6. Damn, he just covered an entire semester of college in 14 minutes. I believe I owe this boy a big wet sloppy kiss.😚💋

  7. Clearly I can’t understand these terms, but yeah let’s not give up, give it some more time

  8. thank you so soooo much! I have taken STEM (Science and technology, Engineering and Mathematics) strand for my 11th to 12th grade since my school doesn’t offer Business strand, which was my preferred one. I am definitely at a disadvantage among other students in my college since most took it. But watching your video was a greaaaat help especially for me that is new to accounting. Thank you sooo much!

  9. Hi James, wanted to say thank you, because I didn’t pass the exam but rather got a JOB thanks to your videos!!! God bless you and I wish you and your family a lot of health and happiness.

  10. Is there someone an accountant that wants to learn Spanish? I want to improve my English but I’m Englisg learner from Colombia I can teach Spanish and something about accounting here, Nice Video!!!

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