Financial statements are a key source of information about the economic activities of a firm. This course is a primer on the construction and basic interpretation of financial statements that should provide learners with a rudimentary understanding of the types of information included in the four primary financial statements: balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, and statement of stockholders equity. We will spend time recording transactions using accounting terminology and then building financial statements from those transactions to provide you with an understanding of how and why transactions influence the various financial statements. We will focus on the language of accounting including such terms as the accounting equation, debits and credits, T-accounts, journal entries, accruals versus cash flows, and more.
Pre-MBA Quantitative Skills: Accounting
This course is part of Pre-MBA Quantitative Skills Specialization
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Instructor: Brian Rountree
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Hi and welcome to the course! In this segment, you'll be introduced to what this course is all about, what we'll cover, some policies, what you can expect, and a little bit about myself.
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In this section I'll give you a bit of an introduction into accounting as a practice, we'll look into the accounting cycle, the accounting equation, balance sheet, and income statement transactions analysis.
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7 videos5 readings5 quizzes1 discussion prompt
Are you in love with accounting yet? Well maybe discussing double entry accounting, debits and credits, journal entries, and T-accounts will sell you.
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7 videos4 readings6 quizzes1 discussion prompt
This week we'll be discussing cash-money! More specifically, we'll be looking at cash flow statements and accruals versus cash flows.
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You've made it to the final segment! To wrap things up, we'll be discussing statement of stockholders' equity and we'll also be interpreting financial statement information.
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