Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication.
This course provides an introduction to accounting’s role in helping managers develop and implement, and improve the organization’s strategy. In particular, you will learn how non-financial and financial information is created, organized, and communicated to help managers make strategic decisions, as well as measure strategic success. This course also provides an introduction to accounting as a control function inside the organization, which helps influence the alignment of managers’ and employees’ decisions with organizational goals. You will learn about different types of controls, including process controls, budgets, and performance measurement and evaluation tools and techniques. If you enjoy this business course and are interested in an MBA, consider applying to the iMBA, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price offered by the University of Illinois. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
AA
Some errors in quizzes need to be corrected, especially Week 1
MA
Good pace of introducing concepts which made the course learner-friendly.
AS
I can't say that the course was revelational. Besides, in one place, the test is really broken
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My course 3/4 in this specialization is still incomplete because the questions had wrong answers in the module quizzes and it was literally taking HOURS to complete the quizzes because you had to guess which one of the wrong answers would be correct this time. The questions rotate through slightly different questions each attempt so you can't simply use elimination on each attempt, YOU GUESS EVERY SINGLE TIME. IT'S LITERALLY 100% LUCK! I thought maybe course 4/4 would be better but nope, same problems here. I've wasted over 6 hours in total trying to pass these broken tests and I'm completely over it. I also reached out to chat support, they went through and said they couldn't find anything wrong and couldn't help me and a refund was impossible because it's past the refund date. Even though I paid for 2 broken, un-proofread, time wasting courses. Also, in course 4/4, the math tables in the videos are staggered all over the place and looks terrible. Seriously an issue of someone not even looking at the video before publishing, would have taken less than 5 mins to fix for the entire course. Also, every time a "checkpoint" question is supposed to pop up, nothing happens. In every single video, they're all missing. I've used Coursera for a few other courses and thought they were reliable but this makes me think otherwise and I feel like such an idiot for paying $200 for this COMPLETE GARBAGE. Other people in the forums have shown they have the same problem posted over a month ago but nothing. Please, someone from Coursera get a hold of me and help me resolve this ridiculous problem.
Quizzes containing wrong answers - Videos not showing tables correctly - Course not maintained in years - Hands off
I'm very disappointed of the quizzes even there's no solution or model answers to follow to know our drops !! I tried too many time to solve the quizzes and nothing happened except for Retake !
I will not continue this course unfortunately !
Some errors in quizzes need to be corrected, especially Week 1
The course is good for getting to know about the internal decision and strategy making and accounting processes for any company; but the course quizzes has many incorrect answers which have been reported in the discussion forums but still remain erroneous. The explanation has not been upto the mark as compared to the first 2 courses in the specialization cause earlier they actually consulted real business people to portray the concepts of accounting in a lay man's terms which is quite easier for the students to grasp; in this course the faculty just used a tele-prompter or just read through the presentations. This course can be a lot better than it is now.
Need better feedback when taking quizzes on incorrect answers, including what is the correct answer and why.
Peer review is not a great way to score something. For example, I reviewed several assignments and found them lacking - basically the work did not follow directions, was obviously done without any effort or was incomplete. I followed the instructions and provided a thoughtful submission, and someone gave me a zero, and now it is unclear whether I have to take the whole class, even though my overall grade was over 90%
There are many problems with this course:
1- There is a lacking quality control. In many lessons the team wouldn't trouble to make a presentation were the numbers were aligned. That's too obvious to miss and to simple to correct. The fact that it was not done give me the impression that the class was done without the proper care.
2- In some videos the teacher says the same thing in sequence, which means no one bothered to edit the material.
3- The quantitative quizzes are more of a guessing experience than a learning experience, since you do not have proper feedback when you make some mistake some answers are clearly wrong as many have informed in the forums for years now and no one bothered to correct it.
Don't wast your time and money here, you will only get frustrated.
I expected a lot more in terms of quality from a course linked to the University of Illinois.
Awful course. You get a test after each module, but there is no way to pass it because the test contains information that is not provided in the module. I tried to pass the test from module 3 around 10 times and I just gave up.
The course was not well explained in the videos, I might as well have looked at the slides myself and read the course reading documents.
the information from materials and quizzes do not match each other. I had to do the two quantitative quizzes over 20 times to get them right. The teacher made the quiz in a way that's impossible for you to pass and even review your mistakes, because they change either the question answers, or some details in the questions or both of them every time you try again. Many questions had wrong answers by the system that made it way harder. This course and the other one from this teacher should be taken down from coursera because it is such a waste of time. I went through the 4 courses to get to the capstone course, but because of the 3rd and 4th courses, most people dropped out and there isn't any participant in the capstone to review my assignments.
learning objective is not clear.
quizzes do not test course knowledge.
few mistakes and misleading info in the video
it could have been explained in better ways, and simpler forms.
the course raises ambiguity rather than explanation. Making managerial account a boring field.
for students that are new to managerial accounting, they are not going to love it, nothing lively about the way its explained
I have dropped out of this and the following courses in this specialization because of the assessment material.
i have tried week 1 assessment it 10 time at least, my answers were accurate, i went to the discussion forum and people were discussing the same thing that there is something wrong with the assessment answer.
no matter what option you choose it is the wrong one.
explanation and tests are on different planets
This course is full of shit!
Too difficult tests.
This course is a gold mine! Although I did find some of it very difficult it only shaped my understanding of the subject more. I am excited to actively start to use this new knowledge in my work environment. Thank you to all involved for the effort to compile and deliver this course!
Good pace of introducing concepts which made the course learner-friendly.
The order of numbers shown in video presentation are incorrect.
A great and concise course with great information!
Hello
to all how works in this course thank you