9. Accounting 101 Intro

May 01, 2026 03:01 · 8:27 · English · Whisper Turbo · 2 speakers

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Lecture Index

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S… Speaker 2 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

Have you ever listened to two accountants talk to each other? It's an exercise in futility. You might as well be listening to someone from a tiny Scottish village. You know they're speaking English, but you don't have a clue as to what they're saying. The following scenario might sound familiar to you. You get your accounting report cards from your accountant or your bookkeeper at the end of the month. You see your income statement and your balance sheet and maybe a cash flow statement.

0:45

S… Speaker 2 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

You look over the numbers and you see something you don't like and for sure you don't understand. So you call up your bookkeeper, your accountant, and say, hey, how did this happen? And your accountant says, great question. I'll tell you how this happened. We debited this and then credited that and then we did an adjusting journal entry and we posted the whole thing to the trial balance and poof, there you go. That's highly accurate, but not exactly helpful, right?

1:13

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To answer your questions, your accountant is likely to try to explain it to you using the only words they know. And if you don't understand what those words mean, you're in big trouble. Debit and credit. For such small words, debit and credit are extraordinarily confusing to everyone except the accountants.

1:35

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

So let's make this easy. Forget about this debit and credit mumbo jumbo and instead ask these questions. Is the number in this particular account or category going up or is it going down? Did the cash get bigger or smaller? Are payables getting larger or are they getting smaller?

1:55

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Accountants take transactions and financial activities and turn them into numbers, and then they place those numbers on three different financial report cards or financial statements, either a balance sheet, an income statement, or a statement of cash flow. The sequence looks something like this. Management makes decisions. Decisions get converted into activities, and activities get converted into results.

2:24

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Accounting is the process of converting business and financial transactions into numbers or results and then recording those numbers on the three financial statements.

2:36

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Business Optics, on the other hand, uses the three accounting report cards by converting those numbers back into activities so that you can know which activities are causing which problems and thereby develop a plan to change the bad activities that are causing the problems and thus get better financial results. So here is all that on a bumper sticker.

3:00

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

Business optics requires you to measure the results and then know which activities to change. This is where CFO School Board comes in. With CFO School Board, the reverse engineering is done for you so that you can easily see and compare the activities that are causing the problems and know exactly what to change to make better decisions and therefore get superior financial results. Imagine the following.

3:29

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You go to your doctor because you've been feeling dizzy and lightheaded. She runs some tests and gives you a quick once-over and says, I'm actually not sure how to interpret these test results, but you know what? You look okay to me. I'll see you next year.

3:47

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You'd fire that doctor for incompetence, and yet this is exactly what most business owners do. They get the numbers from their accountant, and then they have no idea what they mean. It's like the hapless doctor who casually eyeballs a patient to diagnose his health problems.

4:05

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

A good doctor is adept at reading and understanding the test results and based on that interpretation, diagnosing the cause of the problem and then prescribing a remedial activity. Is the patient's cholesterol 600? Good. Start exercising, lose 10 pounds, and start taking Crestor. Is the patient's blood pressure 175 over 120?

4:31

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

Okay, cut down on the salt, start exercising, lose 10 pounds, and take Mavic. None of these diagnoses are available without doing the blood test and looking under the hood. But here's the kicker. Blood tests do no good if you don't know how to interpret the data. If you don't know how to analyze the results or if you have no benchmarks or standards to which you can compare, what good are they?

4:59

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Knowing that your cholesterol is 600 is meaningless unless you have a benchmark to compare it to, which is why trends in comparing your prior historical performance is so important. Number two, you know what caused it. And number three, you know what to do to change it.

5:19

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If you do have a benchmark for comparison, then you realize the number needs to change, and for this number to change, certain activities must also change to drive different results. The real solution is found in knowing which direction the number is going, where it should be, and what activities need to change in order to move that number in the right direction.

5:43

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

The vast majority of business owners are highly frustrated. And the reason is because they see the results in their financial statements and they don't have a clue about the activities that cause these results, so they don't know what to change. They have no idea how much money they're leaving on the table as a result of not identifying and correcting the core underlying problems.

6:08

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

You cannot prescribe the right medicine until you accurately diagnose the disease. Accurate financial optics is key to your business's health. It's looking behind the curtain and underneath the hood and saying, if I tweak this, I could double my profits. If I adjust that, I could triple my cash flow.

6:32

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You only get these sorts of clear, simple solutions with business and financial optics by knowing what the numbers mean. The purpose of business optics and a financial school board, which is not the job of small business accountants, but which is your job as the business owner.

6:53

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

The purpose is to take the financial statements provided to you by your accountants and bookkeepers and turn them back into activities so that you can make better decisions. If you don't know which activities caused the numbers in the first place, you got no shot at correcting the problem.

7:12

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The same logic applies to any of the numbers on your accounting report cards. Receivables of $10,100. Profits of $15,316. Assets of $69,500. Cash of $44,000. Without a frame of reference, what do these numbers mean?

7:34

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

Are they good or are they bad? Compared to what? Are they better or worse than they used to be? How do I change them and make my business more profitable and put more money in my jeans? As you can easily see, mastering business optics requires that you know something about the three financial report cards provided to you by your accountants and bookkeepers.

7:58

S… Speaker 1 (9. Accounting 101 Intro)

These financial statements or report cards are the blood test that give you the raw data. There are four more sections to the Accounting 101 coaching tutorial, one for each of the accounting report cards, and then a final chapter on how they all fit together. Listen to all four sections to get the optics and clarity required to make better business decisions.

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