Webster's online dictionary defines accounting as "the system of recording and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results." Accounting is not only a career, it is an area of study and learning accounting, through any method, takes patience and diligence.

1. Taking Accounting Courses

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   Accounting courses are offered at most community colleges and universities. If you decide to take accounting courses, you will begin with Principles of Accounting I. Some schools require you to take the beginner college credit math course (college algebra) first, as a prerequisite, and take your English placement test with a score that places you in credit English.

   After you complete Principles of Accounting I, your next course will be Principles of Accounting II. The principles of accounting courses teach you the basics of accounting. If you want to learn more involved, in-depth accounting knowledge, you can move on to courses such as Tax Accounting, Cost Accounting, Financial Accounting and Small Business Accounting, according to the Anne Arundel Community College 2010-1011 catalog.

   

   You can learn accounting on your own through the use of books and online materials. The Internet is a useful tool for anyone who is trying to learn. There are a variety of online tutorials and online literature that is free and that you can use to learn accounting on your own. Plus, if you choose this method to learn accounting, you do not have to pay the expenses associated with learning accounting through taking college courses. The downfall to this approach is that without those courses anda college degree, if you decide to get a job in the accounting field it is more difficult to prove your accounting credentials.

   
   

   

   Learning by doing, under the supervision of a mentor, is an option for learning accounting. It may not be easy to find a company that is willing to pay you to learn on the job, so you may have to take an internship. If you already have a job, working in an office setting, your employer may be willing to provide on the job accounting training.

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