Basic Accounting Resources: Websites

This site is based on the Accounting Basics book, written by Michael Celender. Six chapters containing 50 accounting tutorials are provided for free. Each of the chapters, which can be accessed from the left side of the page, consist of six to thirteen lessons.

Explanations, tutorials, quizzes, puzzles, and more for all manner of accounting principles and concepts.

This website was created with the aim of making accounting concepts simple, clear and easy to understand for general people looking for information about accounting topics. The learning material available here has been created by Mr. Rash Javed (ACMA, M.Com).

Accounting Today is the leading information resource for public accountants – serving the community of professionals who provide tax preparation, bookkeeping, auditing, financial planning, and business advisory and consulting services to individuals and small businesses.

Though much of the content is not free, there is also a significant amount of useful free information.

"Bean Counter is primarily an accounting educational and training site that offers free beginning bookkeeping and accounting tutorials, course, exams, tests, quizzes, and games with a dose of humor injected."

The Economist Group is a staunchly independent global media and information-services company with intelligent brands for an international audience.

This section consists of videos grouped into three categories: Cash versus accrual accounting, Three core financial statements, and Deprecation and amortization.

This website is selling some products but also offers many free resources. It provides chapter summaries of a 24 chapter accounting text arranged into 7 topics in tabs across the top of the page. Each topic covers 2-4 chapters. Mouse over a topic tab to display the chapters. Each includes a fairly detailed summary of the information in that chapter, video lectures, Excel Labs, as well as, interactive exercises, and key terms. The chapter summaries are attractively illustrated with graphs, table, and other images. Some of the content is more advanced than in other tutorials.

This part of the Accounting Coach website contains over 1000 questions and answers grouped by topic.

32 quizzes on various accounting topics from Accounting Coach.