This document provides an overview of managerial accounting basics, including: - Definitions of accounting as collecting, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting financial information about business transactions. - An overview of the history of accounting tracing back thousands of years, and how the modern system originated in 1494 in Italy. - Descriptions of the different types of accounts used in accounting like personal, real, and nominal accounts. - The accounting cycle and key financial statements including the trial balance, trading account, profit and loss statement, and balance sheet. - The uses of accounting information for business owners and outsiders.