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"I highly recommend this workshop to all. It innovatively demonstrates an understanding of basic accounting principles, and enables participants to clearly compile and analyze financial statements. In the past you could only gain such insight through years of hands on training in the field. Kudos to ACA for their brilliant and effective teaching technique!"
Manager, PriceWaterhouseCoopers

In 1494 Luca Pacioli invented accounting and published the first balance sheet. 500 years later (following the invention of the inkjet color printer) a major new feature has been added: Color. Read on to find out more about why this is important to you...

Welcome to Accounting Comes Alive^®,  the home of Color Accounting^®.

You have come to the right place if you are seeking accounting proficiency, accounting seminars and financial literacy training.

If you are a learning & development manager looking for accounting training or an accounting seminar for your people, you have just arrived at a unique solution. The world has moved on from the traditional Finance for Non-financial Managers training course. There is a new way of learning accounting and financial literacy, called Color Accounting^® (patent pending). It presents financial information in a visual way that makes logical sense and simplifies the information by using color and diagrams. It makes accounting come alive! Anyone can now understand how to read balance sheets and income statements, and make much more sense of the information.

There really is a better way

It’s no wonder organizations as diverse as Wharton Business School, the American Society of Training & Development, dozens of law firms and major Wall Street banks are raving about this new way of learning accounting and understanding financial statements. Even two of the ‘Big 4’ accounting firms, KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, use Accounting Comes Alive^®.

If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard about Accounting Comes Alive before or the new way of learning called Color Accounting^®, please just remember that even for big innovations, word takes time to get out. The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed. Since our launch in the 1990's we have run courses and accounting seminars for thousands of bankers, lawyers, managers, professionals non-profit executives and students. With branches in the US, UK, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa we can serve your people wherever they are.

2-Hour financial literacy seminars, 8-hour accounting workshops and multi-day courses. 
At your place or ours. Tailored to your exact need

Whether you are in business, government, the law or a not-for-profit... this is the best accounting and financial literacy training you will find.  The multi-sensory Right Brain Accounting®  approach is giving professionals around the world enhanced business acumen for life.

Right Brain Accounting^®... an approach to accounting that makes sense to non-accountants

One of the differences in the way we teach accounting & finance is that we first create a platform of understanding. You achieve a profound understanding of the fundamental principles first. By investing in this solid understanding up front you will exponentially move on to apply your new understanding and build your business acumen. It's amazing what true understanding enables. You will very quickly and easily:

• Read and interpret financial statements
• Understand the numbers, seeing relationships and implications that may have been invisible before
• Make business sense of the reports
• Perform financial analysis to see what the numbers are saying about the underlying business
• Clarify ambiguous financial terms that don’t have one clear meaning, like ‘cost’ and ‘capital’
• Understand jargon like depreciation, capitalization, deferred income and prepaid expenses

You will be able to:

• Think more critically about financial issues
• Make more informed financial decisions
• Communicate financial information more powerfully
• Understand the levers to increase your businesses returns
• Enjoy greater business acumen... which is ultimately what most of our participants want!