This paper is a plea to the accounting educators to think seriously about the importance of teaching non-business students how to make sense of accounting vocabulary and reports that serve as the necessary foundation of the modern civil societies. The economic resources and how they are shared help make civil society possible; and financial discourse allows one to communicate about how economic resources are being deployed. Besides being a plea to the accounting educators about the need to develop such a course, this paper reports on an experimental course at a northeastern university being developed to teach non-business majors how to make sense of the financial discourse. The paper urges the accounting educators to think about how to teach accounting literacy to millions of individuals who have no such awareness and illustrates how such accounting literacy can be taught using tools and techniques familiar to non-business majors.