Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization.
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Skills you will gain
- Financial Accounting
- Accounting
- Financial Statement
- Balance Sheet
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1: Introduction and Balance Sheet
Week 2: Accrual Accounting and the Income Statement
Week 3: Cash Flows
Week 4: Ratio Analysis and Final Exam
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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Excellent. Easy to understand. As thought Prof Brian Bushee can read your mind and know what questions you are thinking even before you can ask them. Also appreciate his humour. Enjoyed this one.
This course offered a thorough and concise review of Financial accounting concepts. Correlating these concepts to 3M Financial statements made the learning real-time. Thank you, Professor Bushee!
A very useful course for someone without any or a little prior knowledge about financial accounting. Full of examples and math works. A helpful guide to learn the A B C of basic financial accounting.
The professor made lectures fun and easier to digest, and the hands-on case studies are good practice to cement the lessons taught. Will definitely recommend to people who want to learn accounting!
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