Financial literacy is a fundamental capability for any business leader, whether you are running your own small business/start-up or working at a large organisation. This course will provide you with a sound foundational understanding of financial and management accounting, and how to use accounting to facilitate and align decisions made by owners, managers and employees. Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) you will develop the ability to seek out financial opportunities and avoid financial misadventure. You’ll learn how to organise, create, interpret and communicate important financial information effectively, which will help you improve your organisation’s internal procedures and processes.
This course is part of the Analysing: Numeric and digital literacies Specialization
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Demonstrate an understanding of the development of financial statements
Investigate and analyse financial statements in practice
Apply financial ratios for purposes of understanding and synthesising business position and performance
Apply a range of management accounting techniques to generate and evaluate complex ideas and concepts to improve decision making
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
The building blocks
Ratios and data: Why and how
Strategy and accounting
Budgeting and forecasting
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TOP REVIEWS FROM MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING: KNOW YOUR NUMBERS 1
A well designed and delivered course that provides the foundation to understand the core of management and financial accounting.
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This is an extremely well course and the tutor is an awesome instructor
Very useful and must learn this course who ever wants to do finance and accounting together
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