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Practical fund accounting education

Learn the work behind a fund NAV.

Practise reconciliations, valuation decisions and review-ready explanations through guided fund-accounting exercises.

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Choose your starting point

Start from what you need to do next.

Build fund-accounting foundations

Check the ten foundation areas with a free self-check before you choose a course.

Start the Foundations self-check

Understand the complete NAV process

The full NAV lifecycle, worked end to end, from prior-day close to sign-off.

Mastering Fund Accounting

Learn Hedge Fund Accounting

Shorts and financing, derivatives, performance fees, equalisation and series accounting.

Mastering Hedge Fund Accounting

Learn Private Equity Fund Accounting

Commitments, capital calls, valuations and waterfalls for closed-ended funds.

Coming soon

Prepare for fund-accounting interviews

A quick, structured refresher on the questions interviews tend to ask.

Mastering Fund Accounting Interviews: A Quick Refresher

Test your current knowledge

Free, no registration. See explanations for every answer.

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The learning method

Four steps, from logic to sign-off.

Each topic is taught in context, so you can see what changes the books and what protects the NAV.

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  1. 01

    Understand the accounting logic

    Know whose money, rules and valuation point sit behind each line of the ledger.

  2. 02

    Work through a realistic example

    Start from the evidence — a trial balance, reconciliation, price file or investor activity.

  3. 03

    Practise the calculation or review task

    Work the numbers yourself before seeing the answer, and trace any break to its source.

  4. 04

    Explain and review the result

    Document what changed, why it changed and what a reviewer needs to know.

Flagship course · Foundation to working level

Mastering Fund Accounting

The full NAV lifecycle, worked end to end: how a fund's books are built, what each control is protecting, and how the numbers come together on a NAV date.

Self-paced lessons
365-day access
Completion certificate
Discussion-forum support

Learning themes

  • Read a NAV report and understand how each item is calculated.
  • Book trades, income, accruals and expenses in the right period
  • Reconcile cash and positions, and investigate a break methodically
  • Work through a capital activity cycle: subscriptions, redemptions and equalisation basics
  • Review a NAV before sign-off instead of only producing it

Specialist courses

Go deeper once the foundation is in place.

Working level and above

Mastering Hedge Fund Accounting

The parts of hedge fund accounting that trip people up: shorts and financing, derivatives, performance fees, equalisation and series accounting.

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Working level and above

Coming soon

Mastering Private Equity Fund Accounting

Closed-ended fund mechanics end to end: commitments and capital calls, drawdowns and distributions, waterfalls, carried interest and investor-level allocations.

See what's coming

Refresher

Mastering Fund Accounting Interviews: A Quick Refresher

A fast, focused revision of the concepts and calculations that come up in fund accounting interviews, with clear ways to explain each one.

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Bonhi Mukhopadhyaya, Lead Instructor – Fund Accounting

Learn with an experienced practitioner

Meet your lead instructor

Bonhi Mukhopadhyaya

Lead Instructor – Fund Accounting

Bonhi brings 14+ years of fund-accounting experience to practical, scenario-led teaching. Her approach focuses on the reasoning behind the numbers—understanding NAV movements, investigating reconciliation breaks, connecting transactions to accounting entries and explaining conclusions clearly.

At The Fund Accountant, Bonhi leads course instruction and contributes subject-matter expertise to the learning content.

Questions before you start

Answers to help you choose.

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