In this course, you will learn foundations of financial accounting information. You will start your journey with a general overview of what financial accounting information is and the main financial statements. You will then learn how to code financial transactions in financial accounting language. In the meantime, you will learn about the most important concept in contemporary financial accounting: accrual accounting. You will then critically analyze how firms recognize revenues. Finally, you will finish the course with an analysis of accounting for short-term assets where you will go into detail on how firms account for accounts receivables and inventories.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Course Orientation
Module 1: Introduction to Financial Accounting
Module 2: Recording Transactions and Financial Statement Preparation
Module 3: Fundamental Accounting Concepts and Revenue Recognition
Module 4: Short-Term Assets
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- 5 stars78.88%
- 4 stars17.34%
- 3 stars2.37%
- 2 stars0.73%
- 1 star0.65%
TOP REVIEWS FROM FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: FOUNDATIONS
excellent course for beginners
Best Feature: Everything is explained with a real time example and the example is kept constant throughout the course reducing the ambiguity one may have
This the teaching method and course structure plus teacher is exceptionally. One thing i need to add i was expecting to cover all the basic accounting things please add more and cover more content
This course is very helpful for me to understand the process of financial reporting. I learn a lot of new terms in the financial accounting. I hope it will be useful for my future study.
Though I have been through Intro Accounting some 3 or 4 times through different classes and seminars, I still found myself learning from this detailed and straight forward presentation of information.
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