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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Accounting Made Fun & Easy: Read the Numbers: Understand Debits, Credits, and the Three Financial Statements in Plain English - and Start Seeing What

Accounting Made Fun & Easy: Read the Numbers: Understand Debits, Credits, and the Three Financial Statements in Plain English - and Start Seeing What

Riatto, Sizu

Paperback

Series: Accounting Made Fun & Easy, Book 1

Accounting

ISBN13: 9798192910771
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 16 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.20 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Every few years a company everyone trusted turns out to have been lying in its numbers the whole time - and ordinary people lose their savings. Every time, the warning signs were in the published accounts, in plain arithmetic, for anyone who knew how to look.

This book is where you learn how to look. Not to become an accountant - to become the kind of reader who can pick up a set of financial statements and ask sharp, calm questions before putting real money in.

Who this is for: total beginners who want to actually understand the numbers behind a company - first-time investors weighing a stock, current shareholders trying to sanity-check what they already own, small-business owners reading their own accounts, aspiring fraud detectives, students, and anyone who has ever nodded at a set of accounts and quietly hoped nobody would ask.

Accounting Made Fun & Easy: Read the Numbers is the detective's training manual for absolute beginners. Following one small fictional business - Bean There Café - from opening day through its first full set of accounts, you build all three financial statements yourself, piece by piece, until the numbers tell their own story.

By the last chapter, you'll be able to:

  • Read a Profit & Loss statement top to bottom - revenue, costs, gross profit, net income - and see what each layer reveals and what it can hide
  • Read a balance sheet at a glance: what the business owns, what it owes, what's genuinely left over
  • Read a cash flow statement - and understand once and for all why profit is an opinion, cash is a fact
  • Tie all three statements together: one number links the P&L to the balance sheet; another links the cash flow to the bank
  • Spot the first tells that something's off: a profit with no cash, a total that doesn't add up, a figure that doesn't match across statements
  • Run a five-minute Detective's Fast-Scan on any unfamiliar set of accounts
  • Know exactly where these real numbers live - SEC EDGAR, Companies House, ASIC, SEDAR - and how to pull the filing yourself for free (taught inside, not gated behind a URL)

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