This course is aimed at business professionals new to accounting or those who would like a refresher at a remedial level in order to improve and/or expand their knowledge of the essentials to accounting for business success. After introducing the importance of accounting, this course steps through each of the key financial statements (Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Statement of Cash Flows), then goes through the accounting cycle. As a bonus, this course provides some key ratio and trend analysis techniques as well as a discussion on managerial accounting.