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If you are studying accounting or auditing, you already know how much - no, not much, but oooooooooo much literature there is on the subject! And that's because there are so many people who are completely ignorant of this difficult science, too. So we decided to find out what tricks, tips and tricks can answer the question: how to understand and learn accounting on your own and not go crazy?
Popular accounting: tips for 'dummies'
Professionals have their own opinions on how to understand accounting. We have gathered here the most useful recommendations that will save you time reading useless books and allow you to understand the discipline once and for all.
So, here we go:
Set goals. First, you need to be clear: What exactly do you need accounting for? Do you just want to pass the exam and forget it like a bad dream? Or do you want to learn about it so that you can get involved in it later on? Once you understand your end goal, you will realise how much more/less time you have to spend on studying.
Refuse to rote. Accounting cannot be memorised - it leads to short-term memorisation of a lot of information at best. Accounting is an ad hoc science and every case has to be treated individually, since there are no general rules for every situation.
We read books as pamphlets. We do not use books and encyclopaedic dictionaries as textbooks, but as reference, auxiliary literature. To look up the meaning of a term, formulae, tables, schemes, relationships - this is what all those tons of materials are good for. Accounting should be taught consistently, which all these books and encyclopaedias do not.
Dose the knowledge. You can't just sit down and go through 16 topics tonight, and 2 tomorrow night. The body must adjust to a certain amount of strain, so carefully distribute the topics for their sequential absorption.
Try everything "on the teeth". Nowhere without practice, so all just received knowledge necessarily practice - master, consolidate, apply, challenge. If only we had someone to check... |
