I'm Devika Rao — I teach students to read a balance sheet the way an editor reads a paragraph: for what it says, and what it's quietly leaving out. Fourteen years making debits and credits make sense.
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"A balance sheet doesn't lie. It just waits for someone who knows how to read it."
I've spent fourteen years convincing seventeen-year-olds that accountancy is not "just adding up numbers" — it's the closest thing school offers to reading a company's autobiography. Every entry is a decision someone made, and every ratio tells you something about how well they made it.
My classroom runs on case-based learning with real financial statements — students analyze actual (anonymized) company filings before they're asked to build a journal entry from scratch. Theory comes after evidence, not before.
I head the school's Commerce department, coach the annual inter-school accountancy Olympiad team, and run a small after-hours clinic for students prepping for board exams.
Grounded in real filings, not just textbook exercises.
Journal entries, ledgers, and trial balances built from real transaction sets.
Share capital, debentures, and company final accounts, case study led.
Break-even analysis and budgeting using real small-business scenarios.
Ratio analysis on real (anonymized) annual reports from listed companies.
Practical GST filing exercises alongside the standard board syllabus.
After-hours problem-solving sessions in the run-up to board exams.
A receipt-by-receipt record of what's running in the classroom.
Students analyze an anonymized listed company's annual report, ratio by ratio.
A full mock company's books maintained by students across one term.
After-hours numerical problem-solving sessions ahead of board exams.
Coaching squad for the annual regional accountancy competition.
A practical, hands-on session simulating real GST return filing.
Students prepare a simplified financial review of a family-run business.
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She made a balance sheet make sense to me in one afternoon after two years of confusion.
My daughter's board exam score jumped a full grade after the January clinic sessions.
The mock company project was the first time accounting felt like something real, not just formulas.
A real balance sheet teaches ratio analysis better than any invented dataset.
What a full year of student-maintained books actually teaches about ledgers.
What separates a correct answer from a fast, correct answer under pressure.
Board exam coaching, project review, or a progress check-in — thirty minutes.
devika.rao@example.com
+91 98765 43210
Bengaluru, India