Accounting is the language of business, the means by which business people communicate with each other. As an executive you need to know the numbers: profit and loss, what your business owns, and what your business owes to creditors. Additionally you need to know what it costs to make or acquire a product so that you know how much to sell it for. Same concept applies to selling a service. You need to know how much it costs to provide a service so that you can price it and make a profit. This book teaches you the core concepts of Accounting.