12 Best Accounting Courses for Beginners
We compared 12 Accounting courses currently listed on Coursera, Udemy and edX, priced from $29.99 to $159.99. 4 come from a named university or institution, including University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey and University of California, Irvine. 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
- 12
- Price range
- $29.99 – $159.99
- Providers
- Coursera, Udemy, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 12 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, Udemy, edX, matched to "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 $29.99 to $159.99, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Introduction to Finance and Accounting
Offered by University of Pennsylvania
This specialization provides an introduction to corporate finance and accounting, emphasizing their application to a wide variety of real-world situations spanning personal finance, corporate decision-making, financial i...
$79.00listed price -
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Introduction to AI Agent in Accounting
Offered by Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
The course is designed for accountants and auditors with little or no technical background. Across four modules, learners move from a real-world story that shows why AI agents matter, to how agents think, to how agent wo...
$49.00listed price -
3
Learn Oracle NetSuite : Introduction to ERP & Accounting
HighlightsThe main objective of the Introduction to ERP/Accounting Course is to make aspirants understand the fundamentals of General Accounting Setup, Understanding Chart of Accounts, Enter Opening Balances, Understandi...
$29.99listed price -
4
Business Fundamentals 2020 Accounting Excel & Stock Research
If you’re looking to pursue a career in finance, investments or looking to develop your professional skills, this course is essential.The Business Fundamentals Course is designed to teach students the soft and technical...
$99.99listed price -
5
Fundamentals of Accounting and Reporting
Offered by Tally Education and Distribution Services Private Limited
This course is for those interested in starting a career in bookkeeping. The course will help you learn and apply the basic concepts of computerized accounting using TallyPrime, fundamentals of accounting, book-keeping,...
$49.00listed price -
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Introduction to bookkeeping and Accounting
Are you interested in studying bookkeeping or accounting but don't know where to start? Are you studying for your first year professional Bookkeeping exams or Financial Accounting exams (ACCA, CPA) and need to do some ex...
$34.99listed price -
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Ultimate Accounting Masterclass: Beginner to Advanced
This course will introduce you to the essential principles of accounting, breaking down complex concepts into understandable lessons. You’ll learn how to read and interpret critical financial documents like balance sheet...
$49.99listed price -
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Fundamentals of Finance
Offered by University of California, Irvine
Welcome to Fundamentals of Finance. This 4 module course will help you understand and affect the performance of your unit or organization’s profitability. By the end of this course, you will be able to implement finance...
$49.00listed price -
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Microsoft Excel from Beginner to Advanced.
Excel is a powerful spreadsheet and data analysis application, with many capabilities which will assist you organize and add up of the info and numbers in your life.Excel is a powerful electronic spreadsheet program you'...
$99.99listed price -
10
Mastering QuickBooks--Beginner to Expert
Master QuickBooks Desktop step-by-step and gain the confidence to manage accounting, bookkeeping, and business finances like a pro. Perfect for beginners, small business owners, accountants, and freelancers.What you’ll l...
$79.99listed price -
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Odoo: The complete Master Class: Beginner to Professional
As we all know, managing a business organization, even if its a very small one, a big one or a medium sized one is a very time consuming task. An ERP, the Enterprise Resource Planning, is a software, which allows busines...
$159.99listed price -
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Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships Fundamentals
Offered by New York Institute of Finance
An overview of project finance and public-private partnerships (PPPs) with a focus on financing and accounting.
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Best Accounting Courses for Beginners 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 11 priced courses on this page run from $29.99 to $159.99, with the middle of the range around $49.99 — a spread of $130.00. 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. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey and University of California, Irvine — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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 18 September 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.