This document contains slides from a curriculum on starting, running, and growing a business. The slides cover basic accounting and financial concepts such as income statements, balance sheets, expenses, assets, costs of sales, liabilities, capital, and cash flow. They explain key terms, the differences between assets and expenses, and how accounting classifications impact taxes and business profits and cash flow. The slides are licensed under a Creative Commons license allowing for sharing and commercial use with proper attribution to the author, Tim Berry.

1. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Basic Financials
The slide decks provided to instructors as part of the Start, Run & Grow Your
Business curriculum, created by Tim Berry, are licensed under a Creative
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This license gives instructors the right to share, remix and make commercial
use of the slide decks, with proper attribution to Tim Berry, the curriculum
author.

2. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Accounting Terms: Why Bother?

3. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Planning is not Accounting
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4. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Important Vocabulary

5. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Income Statement
Profit and Loss
Sales
Expenses
Costs of
Sales
Profit
Direct Costs,
Costs of Goods Sold

6. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Balance
Snapshot of a Single Moment
Liabilities
Assets
Capital
Profit

7. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Expenses: Money Gone Away
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8. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Assets vs. Expenses

9. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Assets vs. Expenses:
Understanding why this matters

10. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Tax Implications

11. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Asset or Expense?

12. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
The Cash Flow
Assets
Costs of
Sales
Profit
Sales
Liabilities
CapitalExpenses
Spent
Balance
Cash
Received

13. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Sales: Not Necessarily Money Received
Assets?
Costs of
Sales
Liabilities
CapitalExpenses
Received?
Spent
Cash
Sales

14. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Costs: Not Necessarily Money Spent
Assets?
Costs of
Sales
Sales
Liabilities?
CapitalExpenses
Spent?
Cash
Received

15. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Asset or Expense?
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16. Start, Run & Grow Your Business
Practical Implications
■ Deductions
■ Taxes
■ Profits
■ Cash flow