Accounting & Finance posters
LearnPosters has 100 free printable accounting & finance posters, grouped into 7 topics: Financial accounting, Management accounting, Corporate finance, Audit & assurance, Taxation. Debits, statements and valuation, without the textbook. They are made for undergraduates, professionals and anyone revising the subject. Every one downloads as a vector PDF that prints sharp on US Letter, A4 or a copy-shop A1.
The rules and ratios an accounting or finance degree assumes you have internalised — double entry, the three statements, and the models built on them.
100 free printable posters · 7 topics · vector PDF
Financial accounting
Double entry, the statements, and the standards.
Double Entry
The rule underneath every accounting system ever built.
The Three Statements
What each one shows, and how they connect.
Accruals & Matching
Why profit is not cash, and when revenue is recognised.
Reading a Balance Sheet
What each section tells you, top to bottom.
Reading an Income Statement
The line items from revenue down to net profit.
Statement of Cash Flows
The three sections, and why operating cash flow matters most.
Depreciation
Spreading an asset's cost across the years it is used.
Inventory Valuation
The methods, and what each does to reported profit.
IFRS & GAAP
The two dominant frameworks, and how they differ.
Ratio Analysis
The ratios that summarise a set of accounts.
Group Accounts
Why groups consolidate, and what goodwill is.
Provisions & Contingencies
When an uncertain future cost belongs in the accounts.
Revenue Recognition
The five-step model, and the judgement in each step.
Lease Accounting
Why almost every lease now appears on the balance sheet.
Earnings Quality
Signals that reported profit may not be durable.
Management accounting
Costing, budgeting and decisions inside the firm.
Cost Classification
The ways costs are split, and why each split exists.
Contribution & Break-Even
The volume at which a business stops losing money.
Absorption vs Marginal Costing
Two ways to cost a product, and why profit differs between them.
Activity-Based Costing
Assigning overhead by what actually drives it.
Budgeting
How budgets are built, and the behaviour they cause.
Variance Analysis
Splitting the difference between budget and actual into causes.
Relevant Costs for Decisions
Which costs belong in a decision, and which must be ignored.
Pricing Decisions
The approaches to setting a price, and when each fits.
Investment Appraisal
The four standard methods, and what each misses.
Performance Measurement
Measuring divisional performance without distorting behaviour.
Transfer Pricing
Setting the internal price between divisions.
Working Capital
Managing the cash tied up in day-to-day operations.
Limiting Factors
Deciding what to make when a resource runs short.
Standard Costing
Setting expected costs, and what makes a standard useful.
Cost-Volume-Profit
The model relating cost, volume and profit, and where it breaks.
Corporate finance
Capital, investment appraisal and structure.
Discounting & Present Value
Why a pound today is worth more than a pound next year.
NPV & IRR
The two discounted cash flow measures, and when they disagree.
WACC
The rate a firm must earn to satisfy its funders.
CAPM
Pricing risk, and what beta actually measures.
Capital Structure
How much debt is right, and what the theory says.
Gearing
How debt amplifies both returns and losses.
Dividend Policy
Paying out or reinvesting, and what the choice signals.
Matching Finance to Assets
Where a business gets money, matched to what it needs it for.
Risk, Return & Diversification
Why diversification works, and what it cannot remove.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Why firms buy each other, and why most deals disappoint.
Financial Planning
Forecasting the funding a plan will actually need.
Real Options
Valuing the flexibility a project gives you.
Corporate Governance
The mechanisms that align managers with owners.
Behavioural Finance
Where real decisions depart from the rational model.
Islamic Finance
Financing structured without interest.
Audit & assurance
Evidence, risk and the audit opinion.
What an Audit Is
What an auditor gives an opinion on, and what they do not.
The Audit Opinion
The four opinions, and what each one signals.
Audit Risk
The three components, and the one the auditor controls.
Audit Evidence
What makes evidence strong, and where each type ranks.
Internal Controls
What controls do, and the limits of any control system.
Audit Sampling
Testing a subset and concluding about the whole.
Going Concern
Assessing whether the business will survive the next year.
Independence
The threats to auditor objectivity, and the safeguards.
Fraud
The auditor's responsibility for fraud, and the fraud triangle.
Planning an Audit
The sequence from acceptance to fieldwork.
Substantive Testing
Testing balances directly, and the assertions each test addresses.
Internal vs External Audit
Two functions with similar techniques and different purposes.
Audit Documentation
What the working papers must show, and why.
Subsequent Events
Events after the reporting date, and which ones change the accounts.
Assurance Engagements
The spectrum of assurance, from audit to agreed-upon procedures.
Taxation
How the main taxes are computed and reported.
How Tax Systems Work
The structures a tax can take, and what each does to incentives.
Direct & Indirect Tax
Who pays, and who actually bears the cost.
How VAT Works
Value added tax through a supply chain.
Corporation Tax
How taxable profit differs from accounting profit.
Deferred Tax
Why the tax charge in the accounts is not the tax bill.
Personal Income Tax
How an individual's tax is computed, in structure.
Marginal vs Effective Rate
Two rates that are routinely confused.
Capital Gains
Taxing the gain on disposal rather than the income.
Avoidance & Evasion
The legal line, and the grey area either side of it.
Payroll Taxes
The deductions from pay, and who bears each.
International Tax
How cross-border profit is taxed, and the concepts involved.
Tax by Business Structure
How the legal form changes the tax treatment.
Records & Compliance
What to keep, for how long, and why it matters.
Reliefs & Incentives
The main categories of relief, and what governments use them for.
Ethics in Tax
The professional line between advice and facilitation.
Valuation
What a company or an asset is worth, and why.
The Three Approaches
Every valuation method belongs to one of three families.
Discounted Cash Flow
Building a DCF, and where the value actually comes from.
Terminal Value
The two ways to calculate it, and the trap in both.
Multiples
The common multiples, and matching numerator to denominator.
Comparable Company Analysis
Choosing peers, and adjusting for what makes them different.
Asset-Based Valuation
Valuing from the balance sheet, and when it is the right basis.
Valuing Intangibles
Brands, patents and software, and why the balance sheet misses them.
Valuing a Startup
Valuing a company with no earnings and little history.
Control & Minority
Why the same share is worth different amounts to different buyers.
Sensitivity & Scenarios
Testing which assumptions actually drive the answer.
Value Drivers
The handful of variables that actually move value.
Valuation in Practice
Where valuations go wrong, and how to sanity-check one.
Markets & instruments
Bonds, equities, derivatives and how they price.
Asset Classes & Claims
The main classes, and what each is a claim on.
Bond Pricing
Why bond prices move opposite to interest rates.
The Yield Curve
What its shape says about expectations.
Equity Markets
How shares are issued and traded, and what a market does.
Derivatives
The four building blocks, and what each obliges.
Option Payoffs
The four basic positions, and what each profits from.
Market Efficiency
The three forms, and what each rules out.
Portfolio Theory
Why the right portfolio is not just the best assets.
Who Trades
The participants and what each is trying to do.
Financial Crises
The recurring pattern behind very different crises.
Market Regulation
What regulation is trying to achieve, and the main tools.
ESG Investing
What ESG factors are, and the debate around them.
Currency Markets
How exchange rates are quoted, and what moves them.
Questions about the Accounting & Finance posters
- What is the Accounting & Finance section of LearnPosters?
- Debits, statements and valuation, without the textbook. The rules and ratios an accounting or finance degree assumes you have internalised — double entry, the three statements, and the models built on them.
- What topics do the Accounting & Finance posters cover?
- 100 posters across 7 topics. Financial accounting — Double entry, the statements, and the standards. Management accounting — Costing, budgeting and decisions inside the firm. Corporate finance — Capital, investment appraisal and structure. Audit & assurance — Evidence, risk and the audit opinion. Taxation — How the main taxes are computed and reported. Valuation — What a company or an asset is worth, and why. Markets & instruments — Bonds, equities, derivatives and how they price.
- Who are the Accounting & Finance posters for?
- The accounting & finance charts are pitched at undergraduates and professionals — the frameworks and equations a course keeps returning to. Nothing here is tied to a school year, so a curious beginner and someone revising the same material for an exam are looking at the same accounting & finance chart.
- Which Accounting & Finance poster should I print first?
- Double Entry, The Three Statements and Accruals & Matching are the ones people reach for first — they are the references the rest of the accounting & finance set assumes you already have on the wall.Double EntryThe Three StatementsAccruals & Matching
- Are the Accounting & Finance posters free to print?
- Yes — all 100 of them. Each accounting & finance poster is a free vector PDF that needs no account, prints on US Letter or A4, and enlarges to A1 without softening. Home, classroom, library and tutoring use are all covered by the licence.Read the licence
Where the accounting & finance charts come from
These posters summarise. When you need the full account — or the normative text a chart is compressing — start here.
- IFRS Standards — IFRS Foundation. The international standards the financial reporting charts follow.
- FASB Accounting Standards Codification — Financial Accounting Standards Board. The US GAAP counterpart, where the two treatments differ.