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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- 5 stars81.05%
- 4 stars14.44%
- 3 stars3.05%
- 2 stars0.75%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM INTRODUCTION TO 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!
It Is one complete Course. No need of a book at-least for the concepts, you may use one for more practice.
At Par with any classroom course at IIM's or similar Colleges.
I strongly recommend.
The course is very easy to understand, and most importantly it is fun to learn accounting! I find this course covers basic yet comprehensive contents compared to other basic accounting online courses.
It is a great course for beginers like me to start to learn about accounting. The concepts are easy to understand, and the examples are very helpful for understanding. I like the virtual students btw.
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