This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the balance sheet. However, to understand accounting driven financial statements, it is important to recognize that accounting is less about counting and more about measuring. “What is it that is being measured?” Well, as the course unfolds, you will learn about the three measurement questions and how the balance sheet helps to answer the first two of these questions. By touring a real company and interviewing real business people, the course describes the basic content of financial statements in a simple yet relevant context. The goal of the course is to leave a lasting impression about what balance sheet consists of and what it reveals. The next course in the Fundamentals of Accounting Specialization completes the conversation by addressing the remaining measurement question.
Ce cours fait partie de la Spécialisation Fundamentals of Accounting
Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position
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Cours 1 sur 5 dans le
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Approx. 9 heures pour terminer
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Course Orientation
You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.
Module 1: What Is Accounting and Why Are Financial Reports Important?
This module will introduce you to the basics of financial statements by emphasizing the links between accounting, measurement, and financial statements.
Module 2: Assets – What Do You Own?
This module will explain the basics of the balance sheet, provide a working definition of assets, and give you an overview of assets typically presented on the balance sheet.
Module 3: Liabilities – What Do You Owe?
This module will introduce you to the concept of liabilities and explain what they are and how they can arise.
Module 4: Equity and How the Balance Sheet Fits Together
This module will build an intuition for what equity represents. It will also explain how the components of the balance sheet relate to one another.
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I really enjoyed the professor's clear explanations. This has helped me understand the balance sheet, which will help me understand my current and future companies more clearly. Thanks!
This course is a great introduction to understanding Balance Sheets and has been a big help to me in my job. I highly recommend this course and I really liked the Professor.
Kevin is such a great professor! He really knows how to break the jargon and the concepts down so that they're easy to understand. Such a fantastic teacher!
Great course...the instructor was excellent! Really was clear and understandable, and held my attention despite this subject not being my strong suit. ;-)
Great course, it teaches you a lot in a simple way. The material is presented to you in a easy to follow format, with lots of supplemental material.
Thanks for the awesome course. I understand more about the balance sheet and the basics of accounting and why it's necessary in the business world.
The material was organized very well and easy to watch. I really feel like I grasped the building blocks of mastering the concepts with the videos.
Easy to follow, great case studies, thoroughly enjoyable. I do wish my final assignment was graded by a professor in addition to my peers.
I really enjoyed this course! The professor did an excellent job in walking students through the basics of financial statements.
Excellent course!! Extremely well designed & delivered. The best part about the course being interviewing people from industry.
Very well presented class. Made easy to understand and the lecturer spoke and presented concepts at the perfect pace for me.
What at a great course. I hated accounting and the presentation of this course has changed that. Now I clearly understand.
This is a wonderful website for anyone taking accounting lessons...it is of great help especially for beginners... Thanks
Great course. I learned a lot, and enjoyed the real world aspect of this course. The Professor was easy to understand
Great Course and helped me lot in learning many new things, that can help me to grow in my current organisation.
I found this course to be a good introduction to reading a balance sheet, with a lot of personal examples.
A very detailed and easy to understand explanation of accounting with good examples. Enjoyed this course!
It was very easy to follow the reading and the videos helped to answer many questions. Very informative.
Excellent course. Brilliant interaction with the local community. It also inspires enterpreneurship.
Very engaging video! The instructor is so clear and thorough. Thank you for this information!
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