25 Best Accounting Courses Online
Choosing an online accounting course can feel overwhelming given the variety of topics and price points. This page lists twenty‑five Coursera offerings, ranging from introductory fundamentals to specialised modules on data analytics, robotic process automation and AI. All courses are provided by recognised universities such as the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign, Rutgers, University of Michigan and others, with listed prices from $49.00 to $158.00.
The selection is ordered by our editorial ranking, not by any external rating. Whether you are a beginner seeking a solid grounding in financial accounting, a professional looking to apply analytics to accounting data, or someone interested in emerging technologies like RPA and AI, the range of subjects and price options should help you find a course that matches your current skill level and career goals.
- Courses compared
- 25
- Price range
- $49.00 – $1,590.30
- Providers
- Coursera, edX
- Last updated
- 18 Sep 2026
How these 25 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, 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 $49.00 to $1,590.30, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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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...
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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Accounting and Auditing
Offered by Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Participate should have business background and basic computer skills like work with excel and PDF. This course equips learners with the skills to master Robotic Process Automation (RPA), a transformative technology resh...
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Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Accounting has always been about analytical thinking. From the earliest days of the profession, Luca Pacioli emphasized the importance of math and order for analyzing business transactions. The skillset that accountants...
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Accounting for Decision Making
Offered by University of Michigan
Through this course, you will start by addressing the two “big questions” of accounting: “What do I have?” and “How did I do over time?” You will see how the two key financial statements – the balance sheet and the incom...
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Accounting for Business Decision Making: Strategy Assessment and Control
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-orient...
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Accounting Data Analytics
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This specialization develops learners’ analytics mindset and knowledge of data analytics tools and techniques. Specifically, this specialization develops learners' analytics skills by first introducing an analytic mindse...
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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...
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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...
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AI Applications in Accounting and Finance
Offered by University of Maryland, College Park
In this course, you will learn: How to work with unstructured financial data like earnings call transcripts, press releases, and ESG disclosures. How to apply machine learning and AI tools to real-world financial documen...
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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...
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Accounting Data Analytics with Python
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course focuses on developing Python skills for assembling business data. It will cover some of the same material from Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization, but in a more general purpose progra...
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Advanced Financial Reporting: Accounting for Business Combinations and Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course covers the accounting for business combinations (ASC 805), the preparation of consolidated financial statements (ASC 810), and other related topics including, but not limited to: step-by-step acquisition, dec...
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Cost Accounting
Offered by Technical University of Munich (TUM)
View the Specialization trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE5Rx91bdYw Many corporate decisions need cost accounting information. When you know the costs of your products, you will make better pricing decisions and...
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Managerial and Cost Accounting
Offered by University of California, Santa Barbara
Build practical skills in managerial and cost accounting to support stronger business decisions. In this course, you’ll learn how organizations use internal accounting information to plan operations, control costs, evalu...
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Governmental Accounting II and Nonprofit Accounting
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This course includes -8 graded quizzes, which are required for completion, and -71 optional practice quizzes for you to check your understanding of key concepts. In this comprehensive course, you will cover a range of to...
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Financial and Managerial Accounting in Healthcare
Offered by University of Arizona
This Specialization builds practical skills in healthcare accounting, financial analysis, reimbursement, budgeting, and managerial decision-making for today’s evolving healthcare environment. Learners will analyze financ...
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Financial Accounting
Offered by New York Institute of Finance
In this Financial Accounting course, you'll explore the fundamental concepts and principles of accounting. It covers essential topics such as the preparation and analysis of financial statements, understanding assets and...
$1,590.30listed price -
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Revenue Recognition and Contract Accounting
Offered by EDUCBA
Learn how to analyze and apply revenue recognition principles under IFRS 15 and strengthen your ability to manage customer contract accounting with confidence. This course provides a structured understanding of the compl...
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Equity and Cash-Settled Payment Accounting
Offered by EDUCBA
Learn how to analyze, measure, and report share-based payment transactions with confidence. This course helps learners understand equity-settled awards, cash-settled arrangements, fair value measurement, vesting conditio...
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CPA Licensure Prep: Special Topics in Accounting
Offered by University of California, Santa Barbara
This Specialization explores special topics in accounting that broaden how accounting professionals interpret business activity, support decision making, and apply technical guidance in practice. Across three courses, yo...
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Accounting Analysis II: Measurement and Disclosure of Liabilities
Offered by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In this course, you'll explore the intricate world of liabilities, focusing on how they're recognized, measured, and disclosed in financial statements. Topics include current liabilities like accounts payable and accrued...
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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...
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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...
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Group Accounting and Consolidation
Offered by EDUCBA
Master group accounting, consolidation, business combinations, and financial reporting disclosures through practical, scenario-based learning. Build job-ready skills for audit, accounting, finance, advisory, and corporat...
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US GAAP Accounting & Financial Reporting Mastery
Offered by EDUCBA
This specialization provides a comprehensive pathway to mastering U.S. GAAP standards, from foundational principles to advanced financial reporting applications. Learners will explore the FASB Codification system, apply...
$49.00listed price
Best Accounting Courses Online compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Accounting Analysis I: The Role of Accounting as an Information System | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $158.00 | View → |
| 2 | Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in Accounting and Auditing | Coursera | Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $158.00 | View → |
| 4 | Accounting for Decision Making | Coursera | University of Michigan | $79.00 | View → |
| 5 | Accounting for Business Decision Making: Strategy Assessment and Contr... | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 6 | Accounting Data Analytics | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 7 | Introduction to Finance and Accounting | Coursera | University of Pennsylvania | $79.00 | View → |
| 8 | Financial Accounting Fundamentals | Coursera | University of Virginia | $79.00 | View → |
| 9 | AI Applications in Accounting and Finance | Coursera | University of Maryland, College Park | $49.00 | View → |
| 10 | Fundamentals of Accounting | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 11 | Accounting Data Analytics with Python | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $158.00 | View → |
| 12 | Advanced Financial Reporting: Accounting for Business Combinations and... | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $79.00 | View → |
| 13 | Cost Accounting | Coursera | Technical University of Munich (TUM) | $49.00 | View → |
| 14 | Managerial and Cost Accounting | Coursera | University of California, Santa Barbara | $49.00 | View → |
| 15 | Governmental Accounting II and Nonprofit Accounting | Coursera | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | $49.00 | View → |
| 16 | Financial and Managerial Accounting in Healthcare | Coursera | University of Arizona | $49.00 | View → |
| 17 | Financial Accounting | edX | New York Institute of Finance | $1,590.30 | View → |
| 18 | Revenue Recognition and Contract Accounting | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 19 | Equity and Cash-Settled Payment Accounting | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 20 | CPA Licensure Prep: Special Topics in Accounting | Coursera | University of California, Santa Barbara | $49.00 | View → |
| 21 | Accounting Analysis II: Measurement and Disclosure of Liabilities | Coursera | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | $158.00 | View → |
| 22 | Introduction to Financial Accounting: The Accounting Cycle | Coursera | University of California, Irvine | $49.00 | View → |
| 23 | What is Financial Accounting? | Coursera | University of California, Irvine | $49.00 | View → |
| 24 | Group Accounting and Consolidation | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
| 25 | US GAAP Accounting & Financial Reporting Mastery | Coursera | EDUCBA | $49.00 | View → |
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 25 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $1,590.30, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $1,541.30. 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 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. 12 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey and University of Michigan — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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