The Accounting Game

A child's lemonade stand is the teaching device Darrell Mullis and Judith Orloff use to explain accounting basics. By running the stand, readers learn to understand and apply terms and concepts such as assets, liabilities, inventory, earnings and notes payable. The authors present financial information in a very simple format that looks little like a standard accounting textbook, using an interactive story, color-coded charts and worksheets to help key terms stick, and a step-by-step progression from beginner level. It is meant for managers, business owners, aspiring entrepreneurs and college accounting students who find conventional accounting books baffling, and its stated aim is to make a dry subject understandable and even fun.

GoDesignerGo founder Andrew Elliott, advising aspiring entrepreneurs, pointed to it as an example of a good accounting book for anyone with no grounding in the subject.