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This is a pretty good article about the basics! I'm a CPA who is now working in the tech space. I've helped work on some accounting software and other finance-t
by Naga 4y ago
This is a pretty good article about the basics! I'm a CPA who is now working in the tech space. I've helped work on some accounting software and other finance-type processes. I'm happy to answer any questions if anyone has them! Either here, or my email is in my profile.
- tbonesteaks 4y agoAny resources you would recommend to learn the basics and/or fundamentals of accounting and finance?
- Naga 4y agoAccounting is also a strange field because its a bunch of almost unrelated fields stuck together. Accounting covers financial accounting (dealing with recording transactions, representing reality, etc), tax, management and cost accounting (things like tracking performance, figuring out what the widget you produced actually costs you, once you've included the direct costs and an estimate of overhead) and a whole slew of other things like internal controls, governance questions (how do you align incentives in an organization?), etc. Picking up a textbook on financial accounting is probably a good starting place to get the basics of debits/credits, but from there it depends what your interests are. For books on finance, I recommend Niall Ferguson's Ascent of Money as a pretty good introduction into the history of finance and how it all sortof fits together.