Accounting Quickstart Guide

The Accounting QuickStart Guide, 3rd edition is a book that aims to simplify accounting fundamentals and make the subject enjoyable for accounting students, business owners, bookkeepers, and other finance and recordkeeping professionals worldwide. The author, Josh Bauerle, is a CPA who takes a down-to-earth approach to accounting and business strategy. He has been featured on the Hallmark Channel’s Home and Family show, the GenY Success show, and several other contemporary business media venues.

The book is designed to introduce key accounting concepts through entertaining and clarifying examples that provide fast and effective mastery of the material. Bauerle’s practical, real-world approach to the subject is consistently exemplified throughout the guide. The Accounting QuickStart Guide is ideal for readers with little to no knowledge of accounting, as it presents concepts assuming the reader has no prior knowledge.

The Accounting QuickStart Guide is suitable 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, and 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, can also benefit from the book.

The guide covers classic double-entry accounting, business entity types, essential financial statements, the fundamental accounting equation, financial accounting, managerial accounting, tax accounting, GAAP standards, and how to increase profit margins and fraud-proof businesses using simple accounting tactics.

The Accounting QuickStart Guide includes sample exercises and quiz questions, plus other bonus materials to fine-tune readers’ accounting knowledge. It’s a valuable resource for readers looking to boost their bottom line or their exam scores and consider it the first of many good decisions they’re soon to make as a moonlighting CPA.