This is an introductory course on financial and management accounting.
The first part of this course will introduce the basic accounting principles and accounting terminology to understand how a company keeps control of financial events and provides information on how it is performing. These basic concepts will support the analysis of financial reports companies prepare. We will go through balance sheet, income statement, financial statement, learning how to read and analyze them.
The course will also provide the basis of management accounting introducing some techniques (e.g. break- even analysis or NPV) to support managers in making short-term and long-term decisions, such as "Is it convenient to dispose a production machine and buy a new one?" or "How many products should the company sell in order to break-even?"
The course will bring examples and case studies that will help students better understand the practical applications of the basic accounting principles and techniques.
At the end of the course, students will be able to read, understand and analyze financial documents and to apply simple techniques to analyse costs and evaluate capital investment decisions.
Financial Analysis, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Bookkeeping, Management Accounting, Cash Flows, Decision Making, Financial Reporting, Capital Expenditure, Financial Accounting, Cost Management, Cost Accounting, Capital Budgeting, Depreciation, Standard Accounting Practices, Financial Statements
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FC
May 11, 2023
This is a wonderful course to clear the basics on financial statements that touches upon the basics of cost accounting and finance accounting, It was great doing this on Cousera.
JJ
Oct 28, 2020
This course was very much useful for my career and I came to know much about cost and financial accounting.The videos and the explanation were clearly explained .Thankyou mam.
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Management accounting
Within this week we will learn the definition of management accounting, the definition of costs and their classification and the reference schema for cost allocation (proportional vs causal allocation).