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About the Course

In this course, you will learn the 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 receivable and inventories. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the main financial statements and the financial information • Write a financial transaction in financial accounting language and understand how this impacts the main financial statements • Understand how accrual accounting and fundamental accounting concepts work • Understand revenue recognition principles and how they impact the main financial statements • Account for accounts receivable and inventories. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and go to onlinemba.illinois.edu....

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Sep 3, 2017

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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Jun 6, 2020

The modules were extremely informative and nothing less to say, Oktay sir's presentations were very easy to understand even for a person like me who has no prior knowledge about Financial Accounting.

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By David S

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Apr 27, 2021

I feel more comfortable with accounting concepts now. It was painful and tedious at points, especially with LIFO/FIFO, but it's accounting, that's what I expected.

By HUNTER G B

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Feb 5, 2021

I feel like I learned a significant amount, but the videos did not always help that much with the practice quizzes. I kind of had to guess and check my feedback.

By UGOCHINYERE O

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Jul 2, 2020

It was easy for me, the lectures were easy to understand couple with the transcript for each module, it just made it simple. Thank you for such a wonderful class

By JOHN J

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Jun 2, 2018

Could use a bit more explanation of the formulas and methods for deriving some of the balance sheet and income statement items, but overall very good overview.

By Carolina R C

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Jun 10, 2019

Muy buen curso, aunque sentí que falto profundizar un poco en los ejercicios ya que en los quices y/o parciales faltaba información para poderlos completar

By RORY C

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Dec 27, 2019

I liked the course. There are some elements of FIFO and LIFO that I worked through, but I'm still fuzzy on. I look forward to the live sessions.

By Jonathan K

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Mar 18, 2019

If there were interactive workbooks, that would solidify understanding and give practical application to the content learned in the module.

By Sourav M

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May 26, 2021

It is one of the best course I have found in recent time.. it describes all the small details with efficiency. Really helpful

By Nikita J

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Jul 10, 2021

This course is awesome. It helped me clear many of my earlier doubts and also helped me learn a lot of new topics in detail.

By REY I A M

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Jan 1, 2020

Los estudios son interesantes, ya que se puede ver la capacidad de analizar la información y prevenir varias alternativas.

By Shahzadi L D

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Apr 25, 2020

It was well covered and was really in depth. the only thing can be changed is case studies should not be too brief.

By SAMIR S

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Jun 6, 2020

For a person from engineering background and willing to study the finance, I believe this is the go start course.

By Rithik M

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May 11, 2020

This course has made me gain interests in finance. And i have learnt many finance topics conceptually..Thank you

By Syed U A

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Apr 27, 2020

Overall its a very good course. However at some points more details are required for better understanding.

By Himani T

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Aug 24, 2019

The course is great, however some more depth is required to answer all questions in the student's mind.

By Abanob R

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Feb 3, 2017

it's a good course in financial accounting foundations and I real liked the idea of the peer assignment

By Agustín E

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Apr 23, 2018

The grading of the submission took too long. I´m still waiting. The rest of the course was excellent!

By Varsha R

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Apr 22, 2020

Peer graded assignment was not explained properly. Rest of the course material was explained nicely.

By Jacques P

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Mar 6, 2017

Good and clear explanations to refresh or establish knowledge about financial accounting principles.

By Emmanouil K

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May 18, 2017

A good class overall. Would have liked it more if the approach was a little bit more systematic.

By Shelley K

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Jun 15, 2019

The fundamentals are covered in good amount of detail and information is easy to articulate.

By Shreya R

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Aug 9, 2020

It was a great learning experience for me . i learned a lot about the financial accounting.

By Seth B

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May 10, 2021

Thanks, good course. I did have to look at other sources to understand LIFO/FIFO dynamics.

By Chia C L

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Mar 24, 2019

Good accounting course for a beginner! Would be good if there are many practical examples.

By MICHAEL C

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Feb 13, 2019

The coursework and presentation of materials assisted in completing this course on my tim