25 Best Financial Accounting Courses Online
We compared 25 Financial Accounting courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $9.99 to $249.00. 23 of them teach the subject directly and 2 are built around a certification exam. 6 come from a named university or institution, including University of Virginia, University of California, Irvine and University of Pennsylvania. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $9.99 – $249.00
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to "financial accounting" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $249.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Financial Accounting Fundamentals
Offered by University of Virginia
This course, developed at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and taught by top-ranked faculty, will teach you the tools you'll need to understand the fundamentals of financial accounting. Concise...
$79.00listed price -
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Introduction to Financial Accounting: The Accounting Cycle
Offered by University of California, Irvine
In this hands-on Specialization you will practice completing each step of the accounting cycle within Microsoft Excel, from analyzing and recording the first financial transactions of the year all the way through startin...
$49.00listed price -
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What is Financial Accounting?
Offered by University of California, Irvine
Students are introduced to the field of financial accounting through defining the foundational activities, tools, and users of financial accounting. Students learn to use the accounting equation and are introduced to the...
$49.00listed price -
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More Introduction to Financial Accounting
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
The course builds on my Introduction to Financial Accounting course, which you should complete first. In this course, you will learn how to read, understand, and analyze most of the information provided by companies in t...
$95.00listed price -
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C_TS4FI_2023: SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting
The practice test have been designed carefully by maintaining the exam structure , syllabus, topic wise, cut score and time duration.Here I tried to explain the answers to more than 180 questions with reference to the ex...
$19.99listed price -
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C_TS4FI SAP Cert. Asso.- S/4HANA Cloud Financial Accounting
This course will prepare you to pass the C_TS4FI SAP Certified Associate - SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, Financial Accounting certification exam. The certification verifies that the candidate possesses fundamental k...
$24.99listed price -
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ACCA: Financial Accounting FA/FFA in Uzbek Language
OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE.The course contains all the topics in the syllabus of Financial Accounting. It provides you with burning lectures on each topic explained in detail and homework tasks on each lesson....
$99.99listed price -
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SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting
*** These 5 SAP Certified Application Associate - Financial Accounting with SAP ERP 6.0 EhP7 Practice Exams provide you with more than 400 realistic test questions and are fully aligned to the SAP exam objectives . ***In...
$19.99listed price -
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Certificate Program in Financial Accounting
Course Introduction: The Financial Accounting course will introduce you to the world of finance. It will explain you with the fundamentals of financial accounting concepts, principles and policies. It will also explain...
$49.99listed price -
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SAP S/4HANA Financial Accounting (SAP Financial - FI)
These practice tests include 250 questions which are very similar to actual exam SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting. After do testing, you will get answer per question. Official Ex...
$19.99listed price -
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SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associate Certification
SAP is a widely used enterprise resource planning software which is also used to manage business operations and customer relations. The application is divided into various modules out of which one of the most important m...
$39.99listed price -
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ACCA: FA (F3) Financial Accounting
This purposefully designed course aims to foster the development of knowledge and understanding concerning the foundational principles and concepts integral to financial accounting. It also seeks to instill technical pro...
$149.99listed price -
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Financial Accounting Made Easy; Learn stepwise Financials
Are you an entrepreneur?Does accounting seem overwhelming?Do you want to learn Double Entry system ? Are you facing difficulty in preparing Financials ?Do numbers and financial reports confuse you?Would You like to...
$19.99listed price -
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Financial Accounting Explained
Offered by Coursera
In this 1-hour long project-based course, you will access and evaluate financial statements of publicly traded companies and learn how financial statement users rely on this information to make lending, regulatory, and i...
$9.99listed price -
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Financial Accounting
Offered by Fundação Instituto de Administração
This course presents an introduction to financial statement analysis and its usage when assessing business performance. The first part of the course will focus on understanding the most important financial statements, na...
$49.00listed price -
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Financial Accounting: Master Core Concepts & Analysis
Offered by EDUCBA
The Financial Accounting 101 Specialization equips learners with the essential skills to analyze, interpret, and apply financial data in real-world business scenarios. Across four courses, you will master accounting fund...
$49.00listed price -
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Advanced Financial Accounting & Specialized Transactions
Offered by EDUCBA
This Specialization provides in-depth, practice-oriented training in advanced financial accounting, covering depreciation, partnership accounting, liquidation, repo transactions, and securities lending. Learners progress...
$49.00listed price -
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![ACCA [Skype] Financial Accounting (F3) - Tam Kursu](https://i.udemycdn.com/course/480x270/795472_2446_5.jpg)
ACCA [Skype] Financial Accounting (F3) - Tam Kursu
Hörmətli tələbələr,Bu kurs mənim Skype vasitəsilə tədris etdiyim ACCA kursunun videolar toplusudur. Bu videolar ACCA F3 imtahan strukturunu tam əhatə edir.Əgər Skype dərslərinə qoşulub canlı dərsdə iştirak etmək və suall...
$74.99listed price -
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Financial Accounting Made Fun: Eliminating Your Fears
Offered by Babson College
Learn the language of financial accounting and how to use financial statement information to better manage and grow your business.
$249.00listed price -
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Financial Accounting Professional Certificate Examination
Offered by New York Institute of Finance
Complete the required exam to earn your Professional Certificate in Financial Accounting from the New York Institute of Finance.
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Introduction to financial accounting
In this course, you'll be introduced to the fundamental concepts of financial accounting. It focuses on the essential principles, including basic definitions, journal entries, ledger posting, and the use of cashbooks and...
$19.99listed price -
22
ACCA Financial Accounting and Reporting (FA, FR) - 2026 Exam
I. Financial Accounting (FA/FFA)Financial Accounting (FA/FFA) introduces the candidate to the fundamentals of the regulatory framework relating to accounts preparation and to the qualitative characteristics of useful fin...
$19.99listed price -
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C_TS4FI_2020 | SAP Financial Accounting Associates Exam
The "SAP Certified Application Associate - SAP S/4HANA for Financial Accounting Associates (SAP S/4HANA 2021)" certification exam verifies that the candidate possesses fundamental knowledge and proven skills in the area...
$19.99listed price -
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Accounting Analysis I: The Role of Accounting as an Information System
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course is the first course in a five-course Financial Reporting Specialization that covers the collection, processing, and communication of accounting information (via financial reports) about economic entities to i...
$158.00listed price -
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Fundamentals of Accounting
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Accounting is the “language of business.” Being able to understand this language allows individuals both inside and outside of an organization to join the “conversation” about how the organization is performing and how i...
$49.00listed price
Best Financial Accounting Courses Online compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 24 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $249.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $239.01. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera, Udemy and edX. The platforms differ in how they sell: some charge once per course, others expect a subscription, and the listed price is not always what you pay at checkout after a promotion. 6 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Virginia, University of California, Irvine and University of Pennsylvania — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Courses versus exam preparation
2 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching Financial Accounting from scratch. They are the right choice only if you already know the material and want to pass a specific exam; if you are starting out, pick one of the taught courses first and come back to exam preparation afterwards.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.