<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

Background: 

I am a married 27 y/o with a child who has just turned 2. I work a full-time job with benefits as a mechanical designer currently making $45k/yr. My wife works as a server 3 nights a week and makes around $100/shift on average. We rent a home from my in-laws for $450/mo. + all utilities including trash + minor maintenance. I have $25k in student loans, a $22k car loan, and about 1,000 on my credit-cards. We currently have an emergency fund of $7k, with no other mutual savings (she has a couple thousand that she was given as a teenager, but that is not being factored in). 
I am currently in search of another job which will probably end with having us move across the country. In order save money for the anticipated moving costs, I have cut back my student loan payment (which up until this point I was paying double the monthly minimum on) and diverted our emergency fund cash-flow. 
We have a 529 set up for our child's college education, which she puts money into fairly regularly at random increments.

Reason for this post:

It has become clear that we need to get more serious about planning for our immediate and long-term future. This has brought me to wanting to learn some solid accounting skills. I have found some great resources including AccountingCoach.com and have started to learn some of the basics. The problem I am running into is the sheer magnitude of this field. I don't know which topics to pay most attention to. And given my situation and immediate goals, do not know if this is the best route to take. Should I be looking into pure accounting, or is there a watered down version that would better suit my needs without making my brain go numb? I (and especially my wife) know that I can sometimes get so caught up in theory that when it comes to practice, I am too burnt-out. But I am convinced that learning these skills is the correct path to take and is the only way to reach our financial goals. 
So that being said, any advice you guys could give would be greatly appreciated.
<bot>: Want to use accounting principles for PF. Oh shit, there ton of information. Is it all relevant? What I do?