Course Highlights
  • Interpret companies’ transactions (e.g. financing, sale, acquisition of goods/services) through accounting numbers
  • Appreciate the difference between book value of equity and market value of equity
  • Assess the financial structure of a company and its implications on profitability
  • Apply the double-entry bookkeeping system to record/verify transactions
  • Discern between cash-based accounting and accrual-based income
Curriculum

4 Topics
Introduction to the course
A view from the top: the financial reporting process
Getting closer to businesses: from transactions to numbers
Reviewing what you have learned

3 Topics
Summarising all transactions
Did the company do well? Assessing performance at the end of the year
Introducing the accounting identity

4 Topics
Unveling the accounting method: double entry bookkeeping system
The double entry bookkeeping system in action
Accounting adjustments with double entry bookkeeping
Reviewing what you have learned

4 Topics
Closing the books
The financial reporting package
Valuation approaches in accounting
Wrap Up farewell & end of course test

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Introduction to Financial Accounting

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