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Best Basic Accounting Courses

These free online basic accounting courses will teach you how to track a business's assets, liabilities, and income. Accounting is the process of recording the financial transactions of a business. You will learn how to maintain a complete and systematic record of all transactions and analyze the financial position of a business as well as track one's own finances....…Read More

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