This course builds upon what you learned in Financial Accounting: Foundations and Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics and introduces you to formal foundations of financial accounting. The main purpose of the course is to familiarize you with technical terms in financial accounting, such as debit, credit and T-account. While knowledge on technical aspects of financial accounting is not necessary to understand and interpret financial statements, this knowledge is critical to be able to understand advanced topics in accounting. Formal Financial Accounting is a prerequisite course for the University of Illinois' iMSA program and the terminology we will cover will be used throughout the courses in iMSA program.
Offered By


Formal Financial Accounting
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbout this Course
Could your company benefit from training employees on in-demand skills?
Try Coursera for BusinessCould your company benefit from training employees on in-demand skills?
Try Coursera for BusinessSyllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Orientation
Module 1: Introduction to Financial Accounting Terminology
Module 2: Formal Financial Accounting for Assets
Module 3: Formal Financial Accounting for Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity
Module 4: Applications of Formal Financial Accounting
Reviews
- 5 stars81.63%
- 4 stars14.28%
- 3 stars2.04%
- 2 stars1.45%
- 1 star0.58%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FORMAL FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
I recommend this course for non-accounting people, who want to learn and start to know accounting. If you make the exercises and examples you can learn a lot.
The course was easy to understand excellent explanation by the professor in detail.
if i could complete the course so can others
Great teaching technique. Build from a simple example and then add more complicated situations. No nonsense straight forward course. Highly recommended.
I´d would like to know the mistakes I´ve made in the exams ;) but and interesting course ! thanks
Frequently Asked Questions
When will I have access to the lectures and assignments?
What will I get if I purchase the Certificate?
Is financial aid available?
More questions? Visit the Learner Help Center.