AccountingAccounting & Bookkeeping Fundamentals
Learn double-entry bookkeeping by doing it: journal entries, ledgers, trial balance and financial statements in a live spreadsheet.
Accounting
Debits and credits only make sense once you have posted a few hundred of them. Tutorvo gives you the journal, the ledger and the trial balance in a spreadsheet and checks each entry as you go. When something does not balance, you see which line caused it and why, instead of discovering the problem three steps later.
Start with double-entry fundamentals and the month-end routine of bank reconciliations, receivables, inventory and depreciation. From there, 32 courses lead into payroll, VAT and sales tax, cost accounting, internal controls and audit analytics, and on to standard-setting topics such as revenue recognition, leases, deferred tax, impairment, foreign currency, hedge accounting and group consolidation. Terminology stays international rather than tied to one country.
AccountingLearn double-entry bookkeeping by doing it: journal entries, ledgers, trial balance and financial statements in a live spreadsheet.
AccountingCost behaviour, CVP, job, process and activity-based costing, relevant-cost decisions and variances, practised in graded labs, not quizzes.
AccountingLearn how VAT and US-style sales tax really work: net and gross, multi-rate invoices, the VAT return, journal entries, partial exemption and reverse charge, all in a live spreadsheet.
AccountingThe real bookkeeping jobs after the basics: bank reconciliation, receivables ageing, payables and discounts, inventory costing, depreciation, disposals, petty cash and payroll, all on live auto-graded spreadsheets.
AccountingLeases, deferred tax, revenue allocation, foreign currency and group accounts with goodwill, intercompany eliminations and non-controlling interest, on live auto-graded spreadsheets.
AccountingSet materiality, run analytical procedures, size and select a sample, match POs, catch duplicates, run Benford's law and test journal entries, on live auto-graded spreadsheets.
AccountingRun a full monthly payroll for 8 employees: gross pay, deductions, employer costs, the payroll register, journal entries, payments, accruals and the reconciliation, every cell checked live.
AccountingValue an outdoor retailer's stock with periodic FIFO, LIFO and weighted average, a perpetual moving-average stock card, NRV write-downs and count adjustments, then read turnover and GMROI, every cell checked live.
AccountingLease payments, the lease liability as a present value, the right-of-use asset, the liability schedule, the IFRS 16 vs ASC 842 cost pattern, journal entries, modifications, exemptions and the maturity analysis: 8 labs on one retailer’s leases.
AccountingAccounting vs taxable profit, carrying amount vs tax base, a 5-year depreciation schedule, DTA recognition for losses, rate changes, tax expense and journal, the effective tax rate reconciliation and presentation: 8 labs on one manufacturing group.
AccountingControl and group structure, goodwill with full and proportionate NCI, fair value adjustments, the consolidation worksheet, upstream and downstream unrealised profit, intercompany balances and dividends, NCI and the equity method: 8 labs on one group.
AccountingPerformance obligations, variable consideration and the constraint, SSP estimates and allocation, over-time revenue with cost-to-cost, a monthly software schedule, contract balances, modifications and principal vs agent: 8 labs on one technology company.
AccountingAge the invoice register, run a three-way match with tolerances, catch duplicate invoices, price early-payment discounts, build a payment run, measure DPO, check the vendor master and accrue GRNI: 8 labs on one company.
AccountingIndicators, recoverable amount, a five-year value-in-use model, goodwill in CGUs, loss allocation with floors, corporate assets, sensitivity and reversals – with notes on ASC 350/360: 8 labs on one group.
AccountingFunctional currency, transactions at spot, realised and unrealised exchange differences, monetary vs non-monetary items, translating a subsidiary, the CTA roll-forward and average vs actual rates: 8 labs on one optics group.
AccountingEstimated gross profit, cost-to-cost progress, earned revenue, over- and underbillings, an eight-job WIP schedule with the year-end entry, change orders and margin fade, loss contracts, retainage and backlog: 8 labs on one contractor.
AccountingMap intercompany transactions, price goods with the cost plus and resale price methods, test a distributor with TNMM profit level indicators, build the interquartile range with QUARTILE.INC, adjust to the median, allocate service fees and post the year-end true-up: 8 labs on one fictional group, following the OECD Guidelines (educational, not tax advice).
AccountingValue an option grant with Black-Scholes, spread cliff and graded awards, handle forfeitures, RSUs, options and performance shares with market and non-market conditions, account for a repricing, post the journal entries, apply the treasury stock method to diluted EPS and chart the ESPP and total expense: 8 labs on one fictional company (educational).
AccountingRun the AR ledger of a fictional distributor: open balances with SUMIFS, DSO two ways, CEI, an ageing-based allowance, credit limits, payment profiles, a dunning schedule and the bad-debt journal: 8 graded labs.
AccountingClassify net assets by donor restriction, journalise releases, recognise conditional grants, discount multi-year pledges, value in-kind gifts, allocate functional expenses with keys, read efficiency ratios and roll funds up into the statement of activities, every cell checked.
AccountingRun the books of a three-partner firm from capital roll-forward to liquidation: ratio splits, salary and interest allowances with a deficit, admission by purchase, bonus and goodwill methods, a partner’s retirement and a wind-up with a capital deficiency, every cell checked as you go.
AccountingTest a company’s controls like an internal auditor: score a risk and control matrix, size samples by frequency, evaluate attribute tests with the upper deviation limit, summarise design and operating results, find segregation-of-duties conflicts, classify deficiencies and track remediation on a dashboard, every cell checked as you go.
AccountingConvert a small business from cash to accrual books: receivables and deposits, payables and prepaids, inventory and COGS, depreciation, accrued wages and interest, the full P&L bridge, the adjusting entries and a month-by-month chart, on live auto-graded spreadsheets.
AccountingTime-weight share issues and buybacks, restate for bonus issues, find the profit for ordinary shareholders, apply the treasury stock and if-converted methods to options, convertible bonds and convertible preference shares, sequence them for the antidilution test and chart the EPS trend: 8 labs on one fictional company (educational, IAS 33 / ASC 260 principles).
AccountingCapitalise or expense, the cost of an asset, straight-line with partial years, declining balance and units of production, changes in estimates, part-exchange disposals with the journal, the revaluation model and componentisation with a roll-forward and waterfall chart: 8 graded labs on one freight company’s asset register.
AccountingKeep a fictional company's crypto books: purchase lots with fees, FIFO, specific ID and average cost, fair value under ASU 2023-08, the IAS 38 cost model with impairment, staking income, wallet reconciliation and the roll-forward, every cell checked live. Educational only, not tax advice.
AccountingMeasure the consideration with an earn-out, strip the target’s old goodwill, step up PP&E and inventory, value a brand with relief-from-royalty and customers with MPEEM, book the deferred tax, test for a bargain purchase, compare full and partial goodwill and chart the post-deal charges: 8 labs on one fictional deal (educational, IFRS 3 / ASC 805 principles).
AccountingRecognise, disclose or ignore, expected value vs most likely outcome, discounting and unwinding, decommissioning, onerous contracts, restructuring and the movement table: 8 labs on one appliance maker's year end.
AccountingWhy hedge accounting exists, fair value hedges of fixed-rate debt, cash flow hedges with the OCI reserve and reclassification, the lower-of test, dollar-offset and regression effectiveness tests, hedge ratios and rebalancing, net investment hedges and the reserve roll-forward: 8 hands-on labs on one fictional manufacturer. General IFRS 9 / ASC 815 concepts, simplified; no affiliation with the IASB or FASB. Educational only, not accounting or investment advice.
AccountingClassify cash flows, build the operating section with the indirect method, get the working capital signs right, back out capex and gains from the PP&E roll-forward, rebuild financing flows, reconcile the direct method, calculate FCF, FCFF and FCFE and judge cash flow quality with a bridge chart: 8 hands-on labs on one fictional outdoor retailer. IAS 7 / ASC 230 concepts, no affiliation with any standard setter. Educational only, not accounting or investment advice.
AccountingResearch vs development with the six-criteria checklist, development cost from time sheets and overhead, internally developed software by stage, straight-line and units-of-production amortisation, indefinite lives and the annual impairment test, revaluation vs cost model, disposals with deferred consideration and the intangibles roll-forward with a chart: 8 graded labs on one fictional robotics company.
AccountingClassify biological assets, bearer plants and produce, value livestock at FVLCTS, split gains into price and physical change, value growing timber by present value, carry the harvest into inventory, depreciate an orchard under IAS 16, treat grants and build the IAS 41.50 reconciliation: 8 graded labs on a fictional mixed farm.
A complete trial balance example with 15 accounts: normal balances, debit and credit columns in Excel, how to find errors and what it cannot prove.
Break-even analysis in Excel: break-even units and revenue, contribution margin, margin of safety and the volume for a profit target, with an example.
Calculate VAT from a gross amount: net = gross ÷ (1 + rate), VAT = gross − net. Excel formulas, examples at 20%, 19% and 5%, and the classic mistake.
A bank reconciliation example with deposits in transit, outstanding checks, bank charges, an NSF check, interest and a book error, plus journal entries.
Payroll journal entries with a worked example: gross pay, withholdings, employer contributions, net pay, paying the liabilities and accrued wages.
FIFO vs LIFO vs weighted average cost on one example: cost layers, COGS, ending inventory, gross profit and the LIFO reserve, with Excel formulas.
The core courses teach double-entry principles that apply everywhere. Advanced topics name the relevant IFRS and US GAAP standards and explain the general mechanics rather than the details of one jurisdiction.
Yes, as practice. The labs train the mechanics that exams and interview tests check. Tutorvo certificates confirm course completion; they are not a professional qualification.
Each course is a single purchase of $9.99. That covers every lesson and lab, the final exam and the certificate, with no subscription and nothing that renews.
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