Overview
Economics tutoring covers microeconomics (demand and supply, elasticity, consumer and producer theory, market structures, market failure), macroeconomics (national income, AD/AS, inflation, unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates and trade) and, at university level, intermediate theory and introductory econometrics. School students in IB Economics, A-Level Economics with various boards, AP Micro and Macro, and the French SES spécialité often need help with evaluation in essays and with the numerical questions.
Accounting tutoring starts from the accounting equation and double entry, then works through the accounting cycle, adjustments, the preparation and analysis of financial statements, and management accounting topics such as costing, budgeting and variance analysis. We teach within whichever framework your course uses, typically IFRS or US GAAP.
Finance tutoring covers the time value of money, bond and equity valuation, risk and return, portfolio theory and CAPM, capital budgeting (NPV, IRR, payback), cost of capital and capital structure, with spreadsheet practice in Excel where helpful. For professional qualifications such as CFA or ACCA, our dedicated test-prep pages are the better starting point.
Who it’s for and the problems it solves
This is for you if you are…
- Secondary students in IB, A-Level, IGCSE, AP or SES economics, business or accounting courses
- Undergraduates in economics, business, accounting and finance modules
- MBA and master's students who need to get up to speed quickly in accounting or corporate finance
- Students from non-quantitative backgrounds taking a required economics or finance module
- Early-career professionals who need a grounding in financial statements
Common problems we help with
- You can draw the diagrams but can't explain shifts versus movements, or link them to a real scenario
- Essay answers get feedback asking for more evaluation or real-world examples
- Debits and credits still feel arbitrary, and trial balances don't balance
- Adjusting entries, accruals, deferrals and depreciation methods are confusing
- Cash flow statements, especially the indirect method, don't make sense
- NPV, IRR and discount-rate questions go wrong, or you don't know which cash flows to include
What’s included — and what isn’t
Included
- Diagnostic session covering core concepts, quantitative skills and written-answer technique
- Microeconomics: supply and demand, elasticities, costs and market structures, game theory basics, externalities and public goods
- Macroeconomics: national accounts, AD/AS, the multiplier, money and central banking, policy trade-offs, open-economy topics
- Financial accounting: double entry, the accounting cycle, adjustments, inventory and depreciation, and preparation of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement
- Financial statement analysis: ratios and interpretation
- Management accounting: cost behavior, absorption and marginal costing, break-even, budgeting and variance analysis
- Corporate finance: time value of money, valuation, risk and return, CAPM, capital budgeting, WACC
- Excel practice for finance and accounting calculations where your course uses spreadsheets
- Essay and data-response technique for economics exams: definitions, diagrams, application and evaluation
- Practice questions with worked solutions and annotated model paragraphs
Not included
- Completing graded case studies, problem sets, business plans or economics internal assessments (such as IB commentaries) for submission
- Investment, tax or accounting advice for real personal or business decisions
- Doing assessed work inside online accounting or finance platforms for you
What you receive
- Learning plan
- Topics ordered by dependency (for example, double entry before adjustments before statements), mapped to your course and exam dates.
- Diagram and concept sheets
- Annotated diagrams with the causal chain explained step by step, plus common exam applications.
- Worked problem sets
- Journal entries, statement preparation, valuation or elasticity problems with full solutions and explanations of each step.
- Model answer annotations
- For economics essays, example paragraphs (on practice questions, not your assessed ones) showing how analysis and evaluation earn marks.
- Spreadsheet templates
- Simple Excel models for NPV, loan schedules or ratio analysis that you build with the tutor so you understand every cell.
How it works
Course and goals
Share the syllabus or module outline, textbook, recent feedback and exam format.
Diagnostic
A few short questions, such as a diagram shift, a set of journal entries and an NPV problem, show where understanding breaks down.
Logic before procedure
We explain why a rule works, for example why expenses are debits, before drilling procedures.
Application to new cases
Sessions move to unfamiliar scenarios and exam-style questions, which is where marks are won.
Exam preparation
Timed questions, essay planning and mark-scheme review in the weeks before assessments.
Teaching methods and tools
- Causal chains
- Writing out economic reasoning step by step (event → shift → new equilibrium → effect on stakeholders) to turn diagrams into analysis.
- Evaluation frameworks
- Practicing evaluation through assumptions, time frame, magnitude, stakeholders and elasticities, instead of adding 'however' at the end.
- T-accounts and transaction analysis
- Tracing each transaction through the accounting equation so debits and credits follow logically.
- Statement linkage
- Showing how the three financial statements connect, so changes in one can be traced through the others.
- Timeline diagrams
- Drawing cash-flow timelines for every time-value-of-money and capital-budgeting problem.
- Excel modeling
- Building small, transparent spreadsheets with formulas you understand, not black-box templates.
Economics: from diagrams to evaluation
School economics exams reward a sequence: define key terms, draw an accurate diagram, explain the mechanism in the context of the question, and evaluate. Many students stop after the diagram. We practice each step, especially application to the given case and evaluation that weighs factors against each other. For IB students, the internal assessment commentaries and, for the Extended Essay, research-question framing are supported through skills teaching and feedback on understanding, not by writing any part of them.
Accounting: consistent logic, not memorized rules
Once the accounting equation and the rules of debit and credit are genuinely understood, most of introductory accounting becomes predictable. We focus on that foundation, then on the topics that cause most errors: accruals and prepayments, depreciation, inventory methods, bad debts and the indirect cash flow statement.
- Recording: journals, ledgers, trial balance and correcting errors
- Adjusting: accruals, deferrals, depreciation, allowances
- Reporting: statement preparation and interpretation under IFRS or US GAAP
- Management accounting: costing methods, CVP analysis, budgets and variances
Finance: the time value of money underneath everything
Most corporate finance questions are variations on discounting cash flows. We make sure present and future value, annuities and perpetuities are fluent before moving to valuation, capital budgeting and cost of capital. We also address common conceptual errors, such as including sunk costs or financing flows in project cash flows.
What the work can look like
Illustrative example — fictional data
Sample session notes: indirect cash flow statement
A fictional MBA student with no accounting background couldn't reconcile net income with operating cash flow. The notes are invented to show what a student receives after a session.
Key idea
Net income includes non-cash items and timing differences. The indirect method starts from net income and reverses them: add back depreciation, subtract increases in receivables, add increases in payables.
Worked example
Fictional company: net income 120, depreciation 30, receivables up 25, inventory down 10, payables up 15. Operating cash flow = 120 + 30 − 25 + 10 + 15 = 150. Each adjustment is explained with the matching balance sheet change.
Practice and next step
Three practice statements with solutions, one including a gain on sale of equipment. Next session: investing and financing sections, and linking all three statements.
Illustrative notes with invented figures in unspecified currency units. Real notes follow your course materials.
What you’ll need to provide
- Syllabus or module outline and assigned textbook
- Past papers, practice questions and any feedback on previous work
- The accounting framework (IFRS or US GAAP) and any formula sheet or calculator rules
- Excel access if your course uses spreadsheets
You don’t need everything ready to ask for a quote — tell us what you have and we’ll say what’s missing.
What affects price and turnaround
Price depends on
- Level and subject area, from school economics to postgraduate finance
- Whether several subjects are combined (for example accounting and finance in an MBA)
- Session frequency, length and exam proximity
- Amount of custom practice material and spreadsheet work between sessions
Turnaround depends on
- Tutor availability for your specific subject and framework
- How quickly course materials are shared
- Exam or module deadlines
Every project is quoted individually. How we price our work.
Questions people ask before starting
Do you teach IFRS or US GAAP?
Both. Tell us which framework your course or exam uses and we'll teach within it, pointing out differences only when they help or are examined.
Can you help with the case study I have to submit?
We can teach the concepts and techniques the case requires, work through similar published or invented cases, and explain frameworks. The analysis and recommendations you submit must be your own. For structured coaching on case writing, see our business case study analysis support.
Is this suitable for CFA, ACCA or CPA exams?
Subject tutoring can strengthen foundations, but professional exams have their own syllabi, question formats and strategies. Our test-prep pages for those exams are designed for that purpose.
Do you cover econometrics?
Introductory econometrics (OLS regression, assumptions, hypothesis testing, dummy variables, basic time series) can be covered here or in statistics tutoring, depending on whether your course emphasizes economic theory or statistical method.
I'm studying economics in French. Can sessions be bilingual?
Where a tutor with the right subject knowledge is available, sessions can be held in French or can mix French and English, which is useful for SES students or learners moving between systems. Mention this in your request.