Accounting QuickStart Guide

by Josh Bauerle

If someone told you that learning accounting could be fun, you might be a little skeptical.

Meet Josh Bauerle, reluctant accounting student turned super CPA and author of the Accounting QuickStart Guide, 3rd edition.

This is the revolutionary book that expertly simplifies accounting fundamentals. It’s an invaluable resource for accounting students, business owners, bookkeepers, and other finance and recordkeeping professionals worldwide!
Whether you are a business owner looking to boost your bottom line or an accounting student looking to boost your grade, this book will prove indispensable on your journey to knowledge.

CPA, Josh Bauerle’s down-to-earth approach to accounting and business strategy has been featured on the Hallmark Channel’s Home and Family show, the GenY Success show, Profit First Professionals, and on several other contemporary business media venues.

Why do accounting students, business owners, and finance professionals love this book so much?

• The Accounting QuickStart Guide explains and simplifies the core principles of accounting in a way that eludes most accounting professors. Key concepts are introduced alongside an abundance of entertaining and clarifying examples, providing fast and effective mastery of the material.

• Business decision-makers and accounting students alike appreciate the practical, real-world approach to the subject. This approach is consistently exemplified throughout the Accounting QuickStart Guide. A clear and simple path to reader education—not confusing jargon—is the order of the day.

• Get ready to experience learning breakthroughs. Concepts in the Accounting QuickStart Guide are presented with the assumption that the reader has very little to no knowledge of accounting. The path to learning begins at the beginning and culminates in new knowledge, new skills, and unmatched satisfaction!


Who is this book for?

• Business owners and managers looking to apply the power of accounting in small, medium-sized, and enterprise-class businesses.

• Accounting students at the high school, undergraduate, or graduate level.

• Business students looking to develop a well-rounded grasp of accounting fundamentals.

• Bookkeepers and financial professionals who want to increase their job proficiencies through the application of accounting fundamentals.

• Accounting professionals looking to reboot their understanding of the core principles of accounting, as well as accounting experts looking to sharpen their skills.

You’ll learn,

•The logic and methods of classic double-entry accounting—what it is and how to apply it.

• Business entity types; their pros, their cons, and their essential financial statements!

• The fundamental accounting equation, Assets = Liabilities + Equity; how everything in the financial world can be explained using this simple equation.

• Financial accounting, managerial accounting, tax accounting, and other universes within universes, all brought down to earth.

• All about GAAP standards and why they matter to accountants.

• How to increase your profit margins and fraud-proof your business using simple accounting tactics.

Accounting is known as the true “language of business.” If you're ready to find your fluency and boost your bottom line (or your exam scores), then the Accounting QuickStart Guide is your educational trailhead. Get it. Read it. Enjoy it. Consider it the first of many good decisions you’re soon to make, thanks to your newfound endeavor as a moonlighting CPA.

Featuring sample exercises and quiz questions, plus other bonus materials you can use to fine-tune your accounting knowhow; buckle in, you are on your way to becoming an expert!

Genres: Business, Finance, Accounting, Reference

213 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2018

About the author

Josh Bauerle is a CPA and the founder of CPA On Fire, a tax and accounting practice specializing in working with online business owners.

Over the course of his ten-plus years in the industry, Josh has experienced a wide range of roles in the accounting world: cost accountant at a Fortune 500 company, auditor and tax preparer at a public accounting firm, financial advisor and, finally, owner of his own firm. This experience has allowed him to see firsthand the importance of proper accounting at all levels of business, from the billion-dollar companies to the guy starting an Amazon store from his basement.

Since founding CPA On Fire in 2012, Josh has become a sought-after expert in the accounting and tax industry, appearing on some of the largest business podcasts in the country and on national TV shows.

Josh lives in Willard, Ohio, with his wife Courtney, twin boys Jacob and Eli, and daughter Mollie. When he’s not helping business owners with accounting, he is coaching the Willard Lady Flashes tennis team, which just completed the school’s first-ever undefeated regular season and SBC Championship.

Reviews

[Aimee · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Brenda Schneider · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to read and understand. Good reference. I won this book through goodreads.

[Renwick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book claims to be a simplified beginners guide to Accounting and I can confirm that it fully achieves its objective. The author has made no assumptions about the level of the reader's knowledge of the subject and produced a very readable and understandable guide to accounting. The chapters are very well-structured with recaps at the end to summarise key areas. I can highly recommend this book to anyone starting out in business or students looking for an initial guide on the subject.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

[Jonathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

6/10

"What is smart is ethical, and ethical, smart."

Accountants take the raw data given by bookkeepers and translate that into a story of how the business is operating. " This is an excellent and simple explanation.

Transaction differences between cash accounting and accrual accounting: Cash accounting is the movement of money from one party to another, Accrual accounting is an accounting method where revenue or expenses are recorded when a transaction occurs rather than when payment is received or made. The method follows the matching principle, which says that revenues and expenses should be recognized in the same period.

Assets= liabilities plus equity. Amounts owed to you, equipment you own, and cash on hand.
Liabilities, debts owed. Prepaid cash. Assets minus liabilities = equity

This is an excellent, albeit short guide to accounting.

[Ramy Gerges · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent entry level book to foundational accounting terms and concepts. I liked the clear and simple examples and explanations. My one criticism is that I would have liked questions/problems throughout the book, probably at the end of each chapter, instead of 3 case studies with all of the quiz questions at the very end of the book.

[Matt McLain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really helpful refresher on basic accounting principles. Debits raise assets and expenses. Credits raise liabilities and equity. Assets = liabilities + owners equity. It’s not math, it’s just categorizing really.

[Amin Rezaei · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've won this book in Librarything review program twice, but I didn't receive it in June, and for the second time I've won it in July and received it about couple of days ago. I've read this book in 2 days, which doesn't mean it's easy to understand or not important, but because I had to share my honest review with the Author as soon as I could.

This book includes not just accounting sections but some usefull tips of how to write The Financial Section of a Business Plan such as: FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, Balance Sheet, FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS, Methods of Depreciation, ASSETS, LIABILITIES and EQUITY which were really helpful to me because currently I'm writting my business plan.

The Author began with the introduction of ACCOUNTING AS A TOOL OF BUSINESS, and a great explaination of Business Entity Types the way your business will be taxed. (really helpful especially if you haven't register your company yet). He broke down Branches of Accounting to: Bookkeeping, Financial Accounting for External Parties, Managerial Accounting for Internal Parties, Income Tax Accounting as the four most essential and prevalent accounting branches.

You'll also find a chapter of MONITORING STOCKS & INVESTMENTS in this book with some usefull information especailly to know how stocks and investing is connected to all businesses.

The most interesting part of the book for me is chapter 9: Detecting and Preventing Fraud.

I really liked the way that author covered this chapter and explained about how Ethics and fraud prevention are critical aspects of accounting, Accountants and bookkeepers, as well as any business professionals are handling sensitive financial records and they must exercise an exceptional degree of ethical decision-making and scrutiny.
There are a lot of True stories about trainers, bookkeepers, etc, of fraud that affecting companies of all sizes and involving all types of perpetrators. Small-business owners may hold the mistaken impression that their close-knit, family-like work environment makes them immune from fraud.

I give trully 5 star out of 5 because of all those reasons that I mentioned above, and I truley suggest you to order it today specially if you're trying to handle your own or business finances. It is very easy to understand and grasp, you will learn a lot from it.

I’d like to thank John Donnachie and Clydebank Media for providing me a copy of this book along with other digital materials including modules, video contents and free access to all these great materials on their website in exchange of an honest and unbiased feedback for the book. to read more about this book take a look at http://3ee.info/accounting-quickstart... which is a book review website.

[Erica]

pretty good book. it reinforced a lot of things I already knew but it also taught me a few things. There were a lot of errors when it came to the double entry accounting examples.

[Lavender]

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