For non-finance teams
Make accounting concepts approachable without starting with specialist jargon.
Author · Japanese certified public accountant
Yasuhiro Tanaka opens up accounting, money and management through history, art and rakugo storytelling. Plan a lecture or corporate training session around your audience and questions.
Yasuhiro Tanaka 田中靖浩

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For corporate training and event planners
What do you want your participants to understand? Begin with the audience and the questions they face, then discuss the right theme and format.
Make accounting concepts approachable without starting with specialist jargon.
Discuss pricing and how to think about profit, using themes that fit your situation.
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A story-led route into accounting.
Discuss this theme (Japanese form)Explore the thinking behind pricing decisions.
Discuss this theme (Japanese form)Discover the relationships between paintings, people and money.
Discuss this theme (Japanese form)Explore money through Japanese comic storytelling.
Discuss this theme (Japanese form)Reconsider the relationship between life and money.
Discuss this theme (Japanese form)Open a conversation about work and change.
Discuss this theme (Japanese form)Books & ideas
Original Japanese editions are shown below. Book titles, publishers and joint-author or supervisory credits remain in Japanese; this overview does not imply translated editions.

A 500-year journey through the history of accounting, beginning in Italy.
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An introduction to economic history through famous paintings.
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Money explored through rakugo, coauthored with storyteller Tatekawa Harunosuke.
Discuss the related lecture32 additional works and editions, including collaborations and supervised titles. See individual Japanese credits.
マンガ 会計の世界史2024/日経ビジネス人文庫
ただの人にならない「定年の壁」のこわしかた2023/マガジンハウス新書
会計と経営の七〇〇年史2022/ちくま新書
マンガ 会計の世界史2021/日経BP
お金にふりまわされず生きようぜ!2021/岩崎書店
教養としてのお金とアート2020/KADOKAWA
おかねをつかう!2019/岩崎書店/翻訳
おかねをかせぐ!2019/岩崎書店/翻訳
「数字」が読めると年収がアップするって本当ですか?2018/日本実業出版社
良い値決め悪い値決め2018/日経ビジネス人文庫
儲かる一言 損する一言2017/日本経済新聞出版
米軍式 人を動かすマネジメント2016/日本経済新聞出版
良い値決め 悪い値決め2015/日本経済新聞出版
クイズで身につく会社の数字2014/日経文庫
クイズで学ぶ孫子 実践編2014/日本経済新聞出版
貯金ゼロでも幸せに生きる方法2013/講談社+α新書
40歳からの“名刺をすてられる”生き方2012/講談社+α新書
ビジネスに生かす日商簿記3級2011/日本経済新聞出版
〈図解〉チームリーダーのための数字力アップ講座2011/PHP研究所
数字は見るな! 3つの図形でわかる決算書超入門2011/日経ビジネス人文庫
もっと右脳でわかる!会計力トレーニング2010/日本経済新聞出版
はたらくみんなの会計力養成講座2010/かんき出版
12日間速習プログラム 決算書トレーニング2009/日本経済新聞出版
ビジネス脳を鍛える!数字力トレーニング2008/日本経済新聞出版
右脳でわかる!会計力トレーニング2007/日本経済新聞出版
数字は見るな!2006/日本実業出版社
実践 儲かる会計・儲からない会計2005/PHP文庫
儲けるための会計2004/日本経済新聞社
不景気に効く会計2003/日本経済新聞社
ニッポンの経営を変える会計ビッグバン1999/日本経済新聞社
図解 ひとめでわかるビジネス会計1999/東洋経済新報社
経営がみえる会計1999/日本経済新聞社The person behind the stories
Born in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Graduate of Waseda University's School of Commerce. After working at international tax and consulting firms, he became independent. He writes and gives lectures on accounting, money and management.
Full profile (Japanese)
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