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.
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
13 heures pour terminer
Why Do We Have Accounting and How Can You Make it Work for You?
Every organized society needs information about its activities and accomplishments. Accounting was created to fulfill this need. In this module we will explore how accounting was designed to meet the needs of decision makers and what this means to you as a user of accounting information. We will discuss the concept behind accrual accounting including introducing the two primary accrual accounting financial statements - the balance sheet and income statement. This module will discuss the purpose and goal of those financial statements, but we will save your experience in creating those statements until module two. In lesson two of this module, we will explore some basic bookkeeping tools that will get you ready to create a set of financial statements. The material in this module is likely to take less than a week, but we will make up for it in module two.
10 vidéos (Total 95 min), 7 lectures, 4 quiz
10 vidéos
Welcome14 min
Why Do We Have Accounting?10 min
What is Accrual Accounting?8 min
What is a Balance Sheet?9 min
What is an Income Statement?8 min
Comparing the Two Statements6 min
Transactions to Financial Statements4 min
Journal Entries10 min
T-Accounts15 min
Using T-Accounts for Account Analysis6 min
7 lectures
The Structure of the Course10 min
The Syllabus10 min
Help us learn more about you!10 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson One2 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Two3 min
Notice for Auditing Learners: Assignment Submission10 min
Transactions for quiz10 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Overview Material12 min
Transactions and Journal Entries10 min
T-Accounts and Other Ways to Post6 min
Module One Test18 min
Semaine
24 heures pour terminer
The Accounting Cycle and Bookkeeping: Foundational Tools for a Deeper Understanding
In this module we will create a set of accrual accounting financial statements. We will use that experience to walk you through the accounting cycle - which is the process by which accounting captures and aggregates all of the transactions in the period into a set of financial statements. We will examine each step in the accounting cycle using a comprehensive example of a start up wholesale book retailer. You will learn how the steps combine to create the statements. In addition to the comprehensive example we will do together, there will be plenty of chances to practice each step yourself. This module ends with a chance for you to build your own set of financial statements for a start up company. Fair warning: in my opinion this is the least exciting material covered in any accounting class (including this one). It is the basic bookkeeping process, not the interesting part of building an understanding of the business. But just as you need to learn basic addition and subtraction before you can master the math to design a beautiful building, you also need to learn basic bookkeeping as a foundation for the more interesting accounting.
7 vidéos (Total 81 min), 6 lectures, 5 quiz
7 vidéos
Comprehensive Example Set Up4 min
Recording Externally Prompted Transactions23 min
Recording Adjusting Journal Entries10 min
Recording Closing Journal Entries9 min
Making an Income Statement7 min
Making a Balance Sheet11 min
6 lectures
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Three3 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Four3 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Five3 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Six5 min
Instructions for Quiz10 min
Transactions to be Used for the Quiz10 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Quiz on Introduction to the Accounting Cycle6 min
Transaction Entries25 min
Adjusting and Closing Journal Entries10 min
Quiz Financial Statements6 min
Accounting Cycle Comprehensive Quiz30 min
Semaine
33 heures pour terminer
Revenue, Accounts Receivable, Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold
In the last module we took an overview perspective to get a sense of the structure of financial statements. For the next three modules we are going to delve into the details of specific items on the accrual financial statements. We will work through the most common items on the balance sheet and income statement to develop an understanding of those items. While we will consider specific items, we will also be building a thought process that we can apply to any future accounting items - even if they are topics that we do not cover in this course. That will allow you to confidently use accounting for years to come, regardless of changes in items or in the specific accounting rules.
There are two lessons in this module. The first will cover revenue and the related balance sheet item of accounts receivable. The second lesson will cover costs of goods sold and inventory. We will cover the conceptual economics of each, discuss the current accounting rules and end with a video that applies our bookkeeping tools. The readings for each lesson provide more details.
7 vidéos (Total 63 min), 2 lectures, 4 quiz
7 vidéos
Accounting Guidance on Revenue Recognition8 min
Bookkeeping for Revenue Recognition3 min
Accounting for the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and the Bad Debt Expense9 min
What goes into Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold14 min
Which One Did We Sell? Inventory Cost Flow Assumptions14 min
Bookkeeping for Inventory Transactions4 min
2 lectures
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Seven5 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Eight5 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Revenue20 min
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts20 min
Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold20 min
Module Three Test30 min
Semaine
43 heures pour terminer
Long-Lived Assets
As firms operate, they often use long-lived assets to execute their business models. Some of these assets are tangible, such as factories or computers. Others are intangible, such as trademarks and brands. In either case, managers face the issue of determining how much of these items were used in each period as well as the related question of how much remains. In this module, we will examine the economics of such transactions as well how accountants reflect them on financial statements. This module will also cover the most nebulous of intangible assets - goodwill.
10 vidéos (Total 64 min), 5 lectures, 6 quiz
10 vidéos
Basic Bookkeeping for Depreciation5 min
Changing Depreciation Estimates4 min
Selling an Asset6 min
When an Asset is used to make another Asset9 min
How Do We Think About Non-Physical Assets?7 min
Bookkeeping for Amortization and Intangibles3 min
What is Goodwill?4 min
Calculating Goodwill8 min
Asset Impairments6 min
5 lectures
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Nine2 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Ten3 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Eleven1 min
Introduction and Overview for Lesson Twelve2 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Thteen2 min
6 exercices pour s'entraîner
Basics of Depreciation12 min
More Advanced Depreciation Topics12 min
Intangible Assets6 min
Goodwill20 min
Impairments10 min
Quiz for Long Lived Assets40 min
Semaine
52 heures pour terminer
Liabilities and Stockholders Equity
In the last two modules we have been exploring assets and their impact on both the balance sheet and income statement. In this module we will turn to discussing the other two components of the balance sheet: liabilities and owners equity.As firms operate, they make promise to deliver value to other entities. Accountants call these promises liabilities. You have already seen some liabilities as we discussed assets - after all, you get many assets by promising to give up future value. We will review those liabilities here as well as introducing a few new ones.
Firms also have owners. Those owners sometimes directly provide capital and other times let managers retain capital generated by firm operations. Combined, those two sources of capital represent owners equity. We will discuss interaction with owners and how they impact our firms economic situation. We will also discuss how the accounting statements reflect these interactions.
7 vidéos (Total 56 min), 4 lectures, 5 quiz
7 vidéos
Deferred Revenue5 min
What is a Contingent Liability?9 min
Bookkeeping for Contingent Liabilities9 min
The Economics of Interacting with Owners6 min
Basic Bookkeeping for Equity9 min
Treasury Stock9 min
4 lectures
Introduction and Overview Lesson Fourteen3 min
Introduction and Overview Lesson Fifteen3 min
Introduction and Overview Lesson Sixteen10 min
Introduction and Overview for Lesson Seventeen2 min
5 exercices pour s'entraîner
Basic Liabilities, including Deferred Revenue10 min
Contingent Liabilities8 min
Basic Equity Transactions20 min
Treasury Stock10 min
Liabilities and Stockholders Equity18 min
Semaine
62 heures pour terminer
Cash Flow Statements
We have been spending our time developing the concepts of accrual accounting. We started with the big picture, learned how to use bookkeeping to construct accrual statements and then spent the last three modules deep diving into various accrual accounting topics that help to create a useful set of financial statements. Throughout that time we have focused on capturing economics, not just cash flow. Of course, many of you still want to know about cash (so do I - it is important). But I have put off the cash flow statement for two reasons. First, I wanted you to really give accrual accounting a chance. If we mix cash in from the beginning, most students seem to drift back to cash every time things get a little complicated. But we have demonstrated that often leads to misinformed choices.
Second, the cash flow statement effectively requires you to "undo" accrual accounting. That means you have to know accrual accounting pretty well to do a cash flow statement.
I am going to be honest (I have all along, after all). The cash flow statement is tough. It seems like it should be really straight forward. Parts of it are. But a few choices were made when the cash flow statement rules were set. The choices make sense (well, somewhat), but they also make cash flow statements hard. We will break it down into pieces to make it approachable, but it is my experience that people need to see this multiple times. Lucky for you, the videos can be watched as often as you want.
In this module I will systematically walk you through how cash flow statements are constructed. We will start with a cash T account and build statements from there. Our goal is to build an understanding of what information you can take from a cash flow statement. We are going to spend an entire week just on the cash flow statement. At the end of that week, I will expect you can understand an overall statement, but I will not expect you to be able to build one from scratch. Finally, I want to point out that this module is an inflection point in the course. We started looking at the idea of financial statements and creating broad statements in modules one and two. In modules three through five we began to look at the financial statements one item at a time. With this module we are moving back to the overall statement level, which is the perspective we will also take next module (which will be our last).
7 vidéos (Total 64 min), 3 lectures, 4 quiz
7 vidéos
Putting Cash into Categories8 min
Direct Cash Flow Example7 min
What is an Indirect Cash Flow Statement14 min
Indirect Cash Flow Example8 min
Changes in Working Capital13 min
Indirect with Changes in Working Capital Example4 min
3 lectures
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Eighteen4 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Nineteen4 min
Introduction and Overview Lesson Twenty3 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Introduction to Cash Flows and Direct Cash Flow Statements10 min
Indirect Cash Flow Statements10 min
Changes in Working Capital Approach15 min
Cash Flow Statements22 min
Semaine
74 heures pour terminer
Ratios and Course End Assessment
We have covered a lot of ground. You now are familiar with financial statements and the underlying transactions that create them. Our goal is to help you use accounting to make decisions and you have surely gotten much better at that. Now we get the big payoff - we learn how to build ratios to provide insights regarding the decisions we are making (maybe even to help us decide what types of decisions we should consider). We have seen a few ratios as we went through the course, but in this module we are going to discuss how to go about making your own ratios related to whatever question you want to answer. I think you will be surprised to find how easy it is now that you understand accounting. In fact, it is so easy that it will be just a couple of short lessons.
Along with those short lessons, the rest of the week can be used to prepare for and take the final comprehensive exam. It will go back over material from each module to assure that you can pull it all together.
8 vidéos (Total 43 min), 5 lectures, 4 quiz
8 vidéos
What is a Ratio?6 min
Warnings About Ratios9 min
Build Your Own Ratios7 min
Stock Over Stock3 min
Flow Over Flow3 min
Stock and Flow Ratios5 min
Congratulations1 min
Greg Miller and Gautam Kaul4 min
5 lectures
Introduction and Overview of Session Twenty One2 min
Introduction and Overview of Lesson Twenty Two1 min
Comprehensive Evaluation3 min
Go further10 min
Post-Course Survey10 min
4 exercices pour s'entraîner
Introduction to Ratios10 min
Build Your Own Ratios6 min
Ratios8 min
Cumulative Final Exams
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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!
Awesome course, engaging, and very good professor (he should team up with engineers!)
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Une aide financière est-elle possible ?
What are the various ways in which I can take this course?
You can do this course standalone or to qualify for the residential component of the Finance for Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program.
Q. What is the Finance for Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program?
The Finance for Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program is a hybrid learning opportunity consisting of two digital courses in Accounting and Finance and a companion in-person experience working hands-on with the faculty and your classmates with data and real world problems to identify solutions and opportunities. With this new blended learning program, Michigan Ross is the 1st to combine the ease of access via digital learning with a unique, in-person direct application experience, all with the rigor expected from a globally top ranked business school. You will have to earn a verified certificate in the course to be eligible for the face-to-face program at the Ross School of Business. To learn more, visit http://michiganross.umich.edu/financestrategy.
Why is the pricing of the verified certificates different from the Finance course?
The pricing of the verified certificate is different depending on whether the course is stand alone, as is the case with the Accounting course, or if the course is part of a Specialization, as is the Finance course. All specializations are offered on a monthly subscription model.
For the Finance for Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program, do I need to to take the courses in any particular order?
While the online courses can be taken in any order, generally completion of the Accounting course is recommended before the Finance portion as the application of concepts of Accounting are helpful to completing the Finance course.
What would I gain from taking the Strategic Decision-Making Executive Education program?
You will gain:
-An understanding of the structure of accounting information that is used to make decisions
-Comfort in using financial statement information to analyze a situation.
-The ability to synthesize information from various sources to develop a deeper understanding of a situation
-The skills to analyze financial ratios as well as creating ratios and metric that are custom to the issue you are studying
-A deep understanding of analytical and financial frameworks to make value-enhancing decisions
-The ability to conduct detailed and rigorous valuation analyses of both projects and companies
-Comfort in understanding the financial analyses conducted by colleagues in your organization in proposals and critiques
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