Through this course, you will start by addressing the two “big questions” of accounting: “What do I have?” and “How did I do over time?” You will see how the two key financial statements – the balance sheet and the income statement - are designed to answer these questions and then move on to consider how individual transactions aggregate to make up these financial statements. After developing a broad understanding of accounting and financial statements, you will begin to develop a more nuanced understanding of individual components of doing business, such as making a sale or building inventory. By considering many of the more common actions of a company, you will build your understanding of accounting, and explore these concepts by applying them across various types of transactions. Once you understand these individual concepts better, you will be ready to return to the overall financial statements and use them as informational tools, including building ratios. You can do this course standalone or to qualify for the residential component of the Finance for Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program. For more information, see the FAQ below.
AM
Amazing teacher and teaching style this rcourse really helped me to enhance my skills and knowledge further .
VP
Very informative and useful course. It cover all the basic of accounting and after make this course you will be able to decide if you want to become an accountant or not.
UR
adding merchandising operations would have been great. Otherwise, it's a very informative course.
D
This course is really helpful, it helped me to learn about the making of a financial statement and accounting decisions of a firm.
FG
I am grateful to join this course. The professor explains clearly with examples and the quiz is worth doing because it makes us practice the material. Thank ypu.
JS
This course is very helpful and teach a lot of things about accounting, finacing, and calculating , goodwill, incoming statement etc.
PJ
Grâce à ce cours, bien exposé par le professeur, j’arrive à mieux maîtriser certains concepts liés à la prise de décisions en comptabilité, surtout l’analyse des flux de la trésorerie et les ratios.
RM
Excellent Course.. Forgot to mention.. It would be Great if students can get some Credit points. Maybe designing this type of course with that in mind would be really Great
VB
Very Well designed course and interesting !!!Prof. Greg Miller explains the concepts very lucidly.
AM
The course is really helpful with giving an understanding of fundamentals and basics of accounting, laying a foundation for better understanding on making and understanding books of accounts
RP
Good quick overview with accounting for non accountants, or a review for accountants that haven't use look for the big picture for a while :)
DY
Such an amazing course. I got lot of new knowledge about accounting after learning in this course
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With no prior knowledge of accounting it's surprising how easy it is to progress through the course. professor Miller has an amazing ability to explain new concepts in an easy to understand manner!
The course is really helpful with giving an understanding of fundamentals and basics of accounting, laying a foundation for better understanding on making and understanding books of accounts
I liked the course very much. It completed my knowledge base about accounting, which I already acquired during my offline MBA program, so I'd strongly advise it, if people are already familiar with the subject. Greg Miller's teaching style is very comfortable - he did a great job.
The best course if you want to review the basics in accounting and work your terminology in English if its not your native language. Professor Greg l have no words really, best teacher by far in any course l have til now.
Having a wonderful experience one of the great teacher Prof Greg Miller gained a lot of learning from. Very Supportive and helpful material in this course specially lectures form Prof Greg Miller
This course is very intense, and a lot can be gained from paying attention to the professors' lecturers. He makes light work of the accounting process. Kudos to the professor.
Excellent Course.. Forgot to mention.. It would be Great if students can get some Credit points. Maybe designing this type of course with that in mind would be really Great
I really enjoyed the course, it was an interesting and encouraging refresher of the skills I acquired during the last ten years more or less detailed within my different jobs.
I'd be happy, if there was a short written summary of key aspects for each section. As it usually takes a couple of weeks to go through the course this would be very helpful to refresh previous weeks' concepts and also afterwards further enhance the learning experience in daily business.
In terms of revising my past knowledge and getting new information about some key points , It contributed so much to me . But It would be perfect if in every assignment there were comprehensive explanations for each questions when my answer was wrong.
This course explains how accounting can be used as a means to determine or make a decision within the company or from other scopes. Accounting is usually in the form of reports, especially financial statements, company cash reports, and others that contain financial income and expenses within the company in order to produce information and decisions and determine the progress of a company. In life, of course, accounting is very helpful and useful in financial processes, company progress, and even information retrieval.
Very well presented! I liked the approach of journal entries along with t-accounts, this provided knowledge of how to account for the transactions and how the transactions affect accounts. I appreciated the upbeat and different view of thinking about the subject matter rather than the retired monotonous memorizing and plodding through the material.
This is a fabulous course. The instructor has organized the material in a logical and comprehensible way. The cocepts and principles are conveyed with succinct but on the point examples for us to understand. I would definitely recommend this course to everyone who is interested in knowing about accounting.
Excellent!
I strongly recommend, the lessons are clear. The explanation simple.
It took me one hour to understand better accounting principles never caught in my education courses.
I LOVE THIS COURSE
Awesome course!
The best course out here (provided for free) in Coursera that will best suit for just the starter or the beginner of leanring an accounting!! Highly recommended while it may be hard.
adding merchandising operations would have been great. Otherwise, it's a very informative course.
Extremely long, unnecessarily complicated, very difficult exams with 2 tries in 24 hours, too many videos.
I wasted Rs 12000 on this course and still not able to receive the certificate. You are really disappointing.
This is a course necessary for all accounting students to add a critical thinking skill to the knowledge you already have. Professor Greg Miller is so eloquent and you can see that he knows his accounting by the way he is able to make you understand complex things so easily. I really like and I appreciate Coursera for giving us all an opportunity to access such material at a low cost of our time only.