The Author: Géry Caupin
accounting4starters (A4S) has been built step by step over a period of 10 years (2004/2014)
Professional & Education profile
A4S was achieved thanks to classroom teaching given to adults & students on accounting, software & financial analysis as a complementary skill.
A french national, Géry Caupin, worked initially as a banker with a top US bank in London, Chicago & Paris. He worked then as a business consultant for SME’s. He received his MBA from HEC business school in Paris Jouy en Josas in 1976.
The succession of business experiences
Following 10 years in consulting, including merger & acquisition and IPO with Euronext Paris, he left the business world in 2004 to move into education. He worked as a professional teacher specialized in accounting, related software & financial analysis in 2 languages (english & french).
How the new teaching method was defined
It was through the remarks & uncertainties of his students that he gradually built a new accounting language with visual codes & concepts associated to his own acronyms (35 altogether). A significant step forward was achieved when he designed the unique GL GRID to identify the correct booking entries for any type of business transaction. Certain new features are only shown inside level 2 & 3.
Who benefited most from the accounting course
His pratical teaching made possible for a number of students to get accounting skills in a very short period of time (3 weeks) compared to classic teaching. Enough to then take a position as a junior operator within a CPA office. Other students were able to move much faster through their university accounting courses based on standard CPA language.
A number of military officers took the course to help their reconversion to a new life in business.
The building up of the teaching webservice
Upon the advice of friends & relatives, he then decided to assemble all his creative content inside a new webservice for self learners in different languages, initially english & french, the 2 main accounting classes distribution used in the world.
The facebook experience : New likes came fast.
A first test with 4 flipping books was made in April May 2016 on the author facebook account where it collected above 4.000 likes within 40 days. Learners & likes came from all over the world, mainly the US, Spanish South America & the arabic Near East.
The new A4S website for self learners worldwide
The new website (in english and french) was opened in August 2016 with most of the free content (92 % of level 1), while more content will be added by the end of 2016. The full content will be available for a reduced $4.95 flat annual fee. All the innovative content has been registered for copyright protection. The french version is comptacile & comptafacile.net