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Anna Karenina and How We Cracked    Accounting Education

8/7/2019

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Many consider it to be the greatest work of literature ever, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.  Its opening line stands out amongst famous opening lines:

"All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

So what does that have to do with accounting?, I hope you are asking.
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Color Accounting delivers Aha! moments for many managers who've previously tried to learn how to read balance sheets and income statements. The question becomes: what makes the learning outcome different?

This is where Ms Karenina enters the scene. The effectiveness is achieved by finding - and lining up - all the links in the "chain of understanding" that you need to make the language of business click.  Learning accounting is about following a series of steps.

Everyone who gets how business finance works has stepped along the accounting chain. [The happy family].  Everyone who doesn't get it has their own missing link. This could be a confusion of terminology (e.g. thinking revenue means money received), a wrong point of view (confusing the company with its owners), or a misconception about increasing and decreasing accounts (thinking you need an entry on each side of the balance sheet). [The unhappy family.]

Every one of the hundred-plus Color Accounting educators around the world gets a thrill when they see the links fall into place for a happy learner, and when they hear that "Aha!"

If you'd like to talk about unchaining your people's business acumen, give us a call when you get back from your northern summer family holiday, or if you're sitting around a happy fire in the Southern Hemisphere.

With warm regards,
Peter.
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