About Me

Now before I explain who I am, let me give a little background to this site.

To put it simply, I put this site up to help accounting students understand accounting better.

You see, from first hand experience I discovered that accounting is not always taught very well, and students don’t always get accounting and its many concepts even when it is taught well.

You see, I was an accounting student myself (many years ago). Unlike many friends of mine, I started studying accounting when I was in my first year of university. I had never studied it before in high school.

First year accounting at university was taught very quickly – in fact they covered most of the high school accounting syllabus (at least 3 years of studies) in the first 6 months of the year!

Thankfully, I had a great study system (see below) and I excelled in the subject. But many people I knew who had never studied accounting before had a tough time.

I ended up tutoring accounting students on a part-time basis, and through this experience I found what students generally struggled with and why.

The eventual result was an accounting book I wrote to teach accounting better. And, later on, this site (which is based on the book I wrote).

So who am I?

In a nutshell I’m an author, educator and entrepreneur. And I’m an expert in accounting and business education. But I'm also just a guy who was an accounting student.

More details follow below on my education and experience. I’ve also included what I do with myself these days and various websites I highly recommend for students and for anyone really. In future I’ll be putting together a page on its own with sites I recommend, but this will have to do for now.

I hope you get something from this site and I wish you all the best in your studies!

Academic background

Experience

• Over 600 hours of one-on-one tutoring for university and college students,
• Drafting accounting course materials for a number of courses and projects, including training and educational materials on South African government accounting (for the Accounting Standard Board and Institute for Public Finance and Auditing), two online accounting courses published by a major media corporation (Johnnic Communications) and the development of six accounting courses for the Hubbard College of Administration for Africa.
• I’ve also reviewed portfolios for chartered accountants while working at the Accounting Training Corporation (ATCOR), and
• Lectured accounting and financial management at college level.

Additionally, I have 5 years experience managing non-profits and am an accomplished writer.

Current activities

Of course, I also run this website, Accounting Basics for Students. Did you know that I put up this entire website myself (despite having no background in computer programming and html)? I did. What happened was that years ago I stumbled upon a ground-breaking website development program called Site Build It! This program made my life much easier. You see, Site Build It! does all the webpage programming and search engine optimization for you. And, it’s so good that it gets your site to the top of the search engine rankings. Many people around the world are now using this to create highly effective and profitable E-businesses on a variety of subjects. Site Build It! was developed by internet marketing guru Ken Evoy and its websites commonly rank in the top 3% of sites on the web. I’d highly recommend it for anyone who has ever thought of creating a web business or has anything they ever wanted to publish (whether online or off). Also worth mentioning is that I obtained many of the images on this site from the fantastic stock.xchng free image website.

Another thing I’m doing now is helping to promote an incredible company and product I came across. The company is called Team National. They’re based in Florida, and they offer a membership which gets a person or business savings on a wide range of products you normally buy anyway. Team National’s membership provides discounts as high as 70% on consumer goods ranging from furniture to automobiles, appliances to pet supplies, ink cartridges, stationery, sporting goods and much, much more. This rapidly-growing company now also provides thousands of individuals and businesses with an additional and lucrative income stream for promoting their membership.

If you’re looking at saving money and/or supplementing your current income, I’d highly recommend you check out Team National’s program.


Thank you for your interest in this site and web page. If you have any questions or would like to contact me, please use the form below.

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