John Day has been a practicing accountant for over twenty-seven years. Currently, he maintains an active accounting and tax practice in Santa Barbara, and Sonora, California. He is the author of Real Life Accounting for Non-Accountants, a 20-hour online course with more than twelve-hundred enrollees from over thirty countries around the world. In addition, the online course is used in various career colleges, adult education centers, and public universities across the United States.

He publishes a monthly ezine-newsletter "The Journal Entry" that has six-thousand subscribers, and is the author of the popular e-book, "Dream or Nightmare: Four Must Do’s Before Starting A Small Business". This e-book has over fifty-thousand downloads. He has written two other e-books called, "Accounting Solutions for Small Business – Volume I & II.

John has established an accounting blog, "Accounting for Non-Accountants Blog", where he can respond directly to accounting questions and comments from the general public.

He has written over twenty accounting articles that are found throughout Internet accounting websites, and is a contributing editor for the national Rent-To-Own business online and print magazines. John conducts live accounting seminars, including accounting seminars for The Learning Annex in San Francisco and San Diego, California. He has also been a guest speaker at California State University Stanislaus in Turlock, California.

John Day has established accounting scholarship programs in Liberia and Afghanistan.

Educational and Experience History:

He received a B.S. degree in business administration from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon in 1968. After graduation, he and two college buddies built a thirty foot wooden sailboat and sailed it from Astoria, Oregon to San Diego, California in 1970.

From 1971 through 1975, John worked as a system planner for Bay General Hospital in Chula Vista, California. For the next three years, he did consulting work for Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, performing feasibility studies while he was a graduate student at National University in San Diego.

In the fall of 1978, John received his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from National University and shortly thereafter joined the Scripps Newspaper Group as their Internal Auditor and gained extensive training in corporate accounting and tax work.

In June of 1982, John moved his family to Santa Barbara and began a public accounting practice as a sole proprietor. The practice grew quickly with clients ranging from manufacturing, retail, and service businesses to non-profit organizations. John developed a philosophy that assumed that the clients wanted and needed to know how the basic functions of accounting were applied to their businesses. He developed mini-seminars on the subject for interested clients.

In 1989, John was invited to merge his accounting practice with the Santa Barbara CPA firm of McGowan, Thompson, & Starlin. He served as their manager of business services.

In June of 1996, John and his family moved to Sonora, California which is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains about fifty miles east of Modesto, California.

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