The Accounting Game: Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand
£14.20
A clear, easy-to-understand explanation of key financial accounting basics.
The world of accounting can be intimidating. Whether you’re a manager, business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or taking a college course in accounting, you’ll find yourself need to know the basics…but baffled by complicated accounting books. What if learning accounting could be as simple and fun as running a child’s lemonade stand? It can.
The Accounting Game presents financial information in a format so simple and so unlike a common accounting textbook, you may forget you’re learning skills that will help you get ahead! Using the world of a child’s lemonade stand to teach the basics of managing your finances, this book makes a dry subject fun and understandable. As you run your stand, you’ll begin to understand and apply financial terms and concepts like assets, liabilities, earnings, inventory and notes payable, plus:
Interactive format gives you hands-on experience
Color-coded charts and worksheets help you remember key terms
Step-by-step process takes you from novice to expert with ease
Fun story format speeds retention of essential concepts
Designed to apply what you learn to the real world
The revolutionary approach of The Accounting Game takes the difficult subjects of accounting and business finance and makes them something you can easily learn, understand, remember and use!
Praise for The Accounting Game:
“The game approach makes the subject matter most understandable. I highly recommend it to anyone frightened by either numbers or accountants.”
-John Hernandis, Director of Corporate Communications, American Greetings
“Fantastic Learning Tool…Don’t let this book title fool you. It is not an oversimplification of accounting and financial principles. It is, however, a serious and very effective examination of a very small but progressively complex business. There are not many books available on the market that make a complex and dry subject understandable and even fun. This book successfully does just that.”
-Amazon Reviewer
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Additional information
| Publisher | 2nd edition (1 April 2008), Sourcebooks |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 192 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1402211864 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1402211867 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 1.22 x 27.94 cm |
by billyedit
Excellent introduction to basic accounting for non accountants. Practice book teaches you the fundamentals of bookkeeping for a simplified business. Useful for comprehending more complex accounting equations.
by Amazon Customer
Very easy to follow and understand, using visionary methods to easily remember the content. Only nitpick is that a lot of the figures are missing as they want you to work it out yourself as you go along, with the answers at the back. This is really annoying and feels like you are revising for a test. Apart from that, it’s a good read for anyone who wants to grasp the bigger picture and fundamentals of accounting and how this plays a role in the running of a business.
by SmiDz
I love how it’s simplified for adults but in a child like concept. It explains a lot in financial accounting for such a short book and some things i didn’t know from uni. It is american so bear that in mind but the skills transfer it’s just different terminology. Great to go over as a reminder or for someone new to business and accounting. It adds context to the studies.
by S. V.
Great buy, for a budding accountant in the make. Good starter book.
by Toby
Very basic and foundational, but touches upon enough subjects that it serves as a great introduction to Accounting. I was first exposed to accounting during the first year of my business bachelors degree, and I just wish I was given this book when I was 16-18 years old, as I’d learn then that Accounting should be my degree route, not business studies.
by Natalie
Prefect condition and the content is easy to read. Need separate pages for workings as it uses the same scenario.
by Frank
This was recommended to me as a simple guide to basic accounting but I gave up after the third chapter.
May be useful if you’re planning to break into the lemonade business though.
by Andy
The books great at walking a business concept through that you can understand to make sure there are no holes in learning. Fixes the ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ issue for me. I learned with Xero self taught and reading this answers so many questions about what and why things happen in Xero