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Imagine a large solid door before you.
It's an old door, gnarly, and it's locked.
Inside, people are speaking freely about financial matters.
They are using this language to make better decisions for...
... themselves - their family - their business - their community - their country - their planet.
They have informed choices.
Between you, a locked door.
And now...
... a key appears.
Open the door.

​We work with people who want to achieve more, who want to create and own their own life on their own terms. We are a for-impact organisation working to give all people the ability to join the financial conversation and make effective financial decisions. In short, we are democratising accounting literacy.

Accounting literacy is the necessary precursor to successful financial literacy and business acumen education and helps maximise the available outcomes.

These are your working definitions that continue to evolve. Let us know your thoughts...

Business acumen   <----------

is the knowhow to operate effectively in a business environment.

Financial literacy   <----------

is the grasp of personal or corporate financial matters involving lifestyle and wealth accumulation.

Accounting literacy

is the ability to read, interpret and communicate a financial situation or event, typically reflected in the 5 elements of the balance sheet and the income statement: Revenue Equity Liabilities Assets  and eXpenses.

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Ice your cake

Forge foundations

If your employees or community members need financial literacy or business acumen, start with the solid foundations of accounting literacy education. Put the icing on the cake. Improve your education investment returns.
​We can talk about how...​

Attract accountants

Accounting teachers, tutors and lecturers already live with the difficulties of accounting literacy education. Even worse if you have little or no resources available to assist you.
​We know who you can talk to...​

We work with other Foundations, non-profits and governments to strengthen your financial literacy offerings. As important as foundations are to your home, your financial literacy offering also needs a solid foundation, of accounting literacy.
Let's talk about maximising your investment...​

Fly the boomerang

Entrepreneurs can create new products, services, ideas, jobs, businesses industries, and even hope. They can literally change the world. And too many of these new ventures fail because of financial illiteracy: they fold and go under or the founder sells out too soon or for too little.​ Successful entrepreneurs can pay it forward.
​Enter the Boomerang Education Fund...​

The Foundation is the international voice for accounting literacy
​and we work hard at:
(1) Promoting accounting literacy as an essential social and life skill
(2) Promoting access to accounting literacy education.

If you have something ‘accounting literacy’ in mind, we’d love to help.

You are our focus

Accept your rights
​You have the right to be accounting literate, just like you have the right to read, to write, and to do arithmetic. These are all fundamental life skills and can be used to change your situation.

Live your life
With accounting literacy you can make better financial and life decisions. Whether balancing a household budget, saving for retirement, starting or running a business, taking on loans, or investing for the future. Science says that people who make good financial decisions are wealthier, healthier and live longer.

Fast acting
Learning, understanding and using the accounting language used to be slow and difficult, and now it is not. 

Make a better world
We are a growing community of more than 200 accountants, academics, educators, business leaders, trainers, coaches, and others who believe that financial confidence and better life decisions makes for a better world.

Track success
Our 'just cause' is straight forward:

• Individuals or corporates to provide access to accounting literacy education for their employees, communities or special interest groups.
• Successful entrepreneurs can pay it forward (Boomerang Education Fund).
• We track key metrics so the return on the investment is clear.

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This website lives and breathes and will be updated often. As a consequence there may be times when something gets broken or forgotten or maybe we get a bit tongue-tied. If something needs attention, please email us at easy@accountingliteracy.org and we will fix it - thank you.