Bookkeeping Academy
Free Bookkeeping & Accounting Lessons
Learn the fundamentals of bookkeeping, payroll, and financial reporting — the backbone of every office job.
Debits and Credits in Plain English
Every accounting transaction has two sides: one debit and one credit that must equal. Once this clicks, the rest of bookkeeping is…
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Writing Clean Journal Entries
A journal entry is the formal record of one transaction. Learning to write them well makes everything downstream — the ledger, tri…
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Bank Reconciliation Step-by-Step
Reconciling means proving that the balance on your bank statement matches the balance in your books, after accounting for timing d…
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Accounting Basics: The Language of Business
Before debits and credits, you need the vocabulary: what an account is, what the five account types are, and how the accounting eq…
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Accounts Payable: Managing What You Owe
Accounts Payable (AP) is the process of paying vendor invoices accurately and on time. Good AP protects cash, captures discounts, …
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Accounts Receivable: Getting Paid Faster
Accounts Receivable (AR) covers everything from invoicing customers to applying payments to writing off bad debt.…
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Payroll Basics: Gross to Net
Payroll is one of the most error-sensitive areas of bookkeeping. Learn the gross-to-net flow and the accounts involved.…
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The Three Financial Statements
Every business is summarized by three statements: Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. Together they tell you…
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Bookkeeping Practice Exercises
Ten real-world exercises to lock in the concepts from previous lessons. Do them on paper, then check your work.…
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Bookkeeping Master Quiz
A ten-question master quiz that pulls from every earlier bookkeeping lesson. Aim for 9/10.…
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