From Passion to Payday
Business skills you build by doing the work.
A free library of business lessons. Each lesson has a worked case with real numbers, a template, exercises with answers, and a short check.
Start with Track 1: Accounting and finance
What is open now
Track 1, Accounting and finance, is open. It covers the three statements, books that hold up, and costs and margins: 14 lessons in three modules, with five more modules planned. The lessons follow two fictional companies, Northside Coffee and Hartley Plumbing, and every figure comes from one checked set of books.
Thirteen more tracks are planned. They are listed below, and none of them is open yet.
- Economics for operators
- Data and decision-making
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Sales and persuasion
- Operations
- Leadership and management
- Business communication
- Negotiation
- Law and contracts
- Entrepreneurship and venture building
- Personal finance and capital
- Ethics and character
How a lesson works
- Read the lesson. It builds the idea from the ground up and cites its sources.
- Follow the worked case, with the full numbers shown.
- Use the template to do the same work on your own figures.
- Work the exercises, then open the answers.
- Take the short check.
What is free and what is not
Every lesson is free to read, with no account. Two templates are free to download: the journal and trial balance, and the break-even calculator. The full set of fourteen working files from Track 1 is sold as the Accounting and Finance Toolkit, Part 1 on Gumroad.
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One lesson excerpt a week, worked through with numbers, on Substack.
What this is not
This is general education. It is not accounting, tax, legal or investment advice, and it does not give out credentials. Read more on the About page and in the Terms.