One night I came over to our CFO's office, and I said, "I really don't understand a lot of the balance sheet math and all this stuff. I'm pretty good at math, so I should be able to get it, but I just don't understand the language, so teach me accounting." We had this crazy multihour session where he was explaining accounting to me. I learned debits and credits and why certain things are called what they are; liabilities versus assets and capital.
