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Practical Accounting Knowledge for Better Financial Decisions

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Accounting & Bookkeeping Training

Clarity Before Decisions
Professor-Led Accounting Education

Build Accounting Knowledge You Can Actually Use.

Live, one-on-one instruction with Dr. Brian Routh, a 20+ year accounting professor and former North Carolina Assistant State Auditor. These courses are designed to build practical accounting understanding—not just theory.

  • Live One-on-One Instruction
  • Personalized Pacing
  • Practical Application
Recommended Learning Path

A Practical Progression From Foundation to Analysis

Most learners follow this sequence to move from core accounting understanding to higher-level analysis and decision-making.

Step 1

Financial Accounting

Build a strong foundation in transactions, reporting, and financial statements.

Step 2

Managerial Accounting

Develop skills in cost analysis, budgeting, and internal decision-making.

Step 3

Apply the Knowledge

Use your skills in bookkeeping, advisory work, or business financial management.

Two Comprehensive Courses

College-Level Content in a Personalized Live Format

Each course is delivered one-on-one and is designed to build both technical understanding and practical confidence.

Foundation Course

Financial Accounting

$895

Build your core understanding of accounting systems, transaction processing, financial reporting, and the accounting cycle.

  • Introduction to accounting in business
  • Accounting equation and business transactions
  • Journal entries and ledger posting
  • Trial balance preparation
  • Adjusting entries and adjusted trial balance
  • Financial statement preparation
  • Income statement, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement
  • Closing entries
  • Merchandising operations
  • Periodic and perpetual inventory systems
  • FIFO, LIFO, and weighted-average methods
  • Internal controls and cash management
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Receivables and bad-debt accounting
  • Depreciation methods
  • Liabilities and long-term debt
  • Statement of cash flows
  • Basic financial-statement analysis
Advanced Course

Managerial Accounting

$895

Build upon financial accounting and focus on internal decision-making, cost analysis, budgeting, and performance evaluation.

  • Cost behavior and cost classification
  • Fixed, variable, and mixed costs
  • Cost-volume-profit analysis
  • Break-even analysis
  • Contribution-margin analysis
  • Job-order and process costing
  • Activity-based costing
  • Cost-allocation methods
  • Budgeting and the master budget
  • Flexible budgets
  • Standard-costing systems
  • Labor, materials, and overhead variance analysis
  • Performance-evaluation systems
  • Responsibility accounting
  • Make-or-buy decisions
  • Special-order decisions
  • Pricing strategies
  • Capital-budgeting fundamentals
Course Format

Personalized, Flexible, and Focused

Each course is structured around your schedule, pace, prior knowledge, and learning goals.

Instruction

  • Live one-on-one instruction
  • Approximately eight hours of live instruction per course
  • Direct access to the instructor

Scheduling and Pace

  • Flexible scheduling
  • Personalized pacing
  • Each course is typically completed within four weeks

Important Course Information

Financial Accounting must be completed before enrolling in Managerial Accounting. Learners who have previously completed a financial accounting course may be eligible to test out of the foundation course.

Comparable courses can cost approximately $1,800 to $4,000 each in traditional university settings. These courses provide direct, personalized instruction at a significantly reduced rate.

Both courses may be bundled for $1,500.

These courses are intended for learners who want a deep understanding of foundational accounting concepts with a dedicated live instructor. Current accounting students seeking help with individual topics may also use the free eLecture videos .

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