How would learning accounting benefit the layperson?

I AGREE WITH MR VENKITARAMAN ANSWER  

For a lay person learning accounting is not an easy task--but he can learn something if some efforts are put to.............the understanding of the subject make him more and more benefit......from position of stock, debtors, creditors, pending payments and bills, salary structure of the employees, different kinds of costs that he can have a control over it, bank balances available,cash balance available, the profit he can withdraw from the business..............................   He can request many things that require attention immediately with the help of learned accountant who can provide him the information from time to time.