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About the Course

Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization....

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EY

Sep 19, 2019

The course is very easy to understand, and most importantly it is fun to learn accounting! I find this course covers basic yet comprehensive contents compared to other basic accounting online courses.

YR

Jun 13, 2022

It is a great course for beginers like me to start to learn about accounting. The concepts are easy to understand, and the examples are very helpful for understanding. I like the virtual students btw.

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By Ray

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Mar 27, 2016

professor is really trying to use cases to make up for boring material. The virtual students add points too.

If only the professor could speak not that fast....

By Nikolo H

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Feb 11, 2018

I enjoy the practical comparison with 3M company. Professor Bushee explains the topic in a fairly understandable way and provides practical examples.

By Elizabeth B

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May 13, 2019

I enjoyed Professor Boucher, but struggled to understand the material in a practical way. Having practice problems/sets would have helped immensely.

By Joseph L W

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Apr 16, 2020

Great course. I learned a lot about accounting and would rate this course as intermediate. I wish that there were more videos about ratio analysis.

By Robert T

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Feb 7, 2020

Clear and concise instructor. Great format. I would have liked a little more background info...perhaps this is something I should have had prior.

By John H

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Jan 5, 2020

Great course. I wish there was a little more material dedicated to the significance of how changes on one statement affect the other statements.

By Diana D

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Apr 17, 2020

Good course, however it's very different to the accounting we study in the UK hence why it was quite difficult for me at times! Thanks anyways!

By Jennifer R K

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Aug 10, 2022

It was very thorough and well constructed. For non-numbers people like myself, there's a steep learning curve. Still glad I got though it.

By Max O

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May 16, 2020

Very easy to follow and goes through step-by-step how to create and understand Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flows, and some ratios.

By Mokhwan S

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Aug 2, 2017

There were some idioms which makes me search on the internet to know what those idioms mean. Wish there were some more exercise to practice.

By Srihith B

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Jul 9, 2017

Well made course that gives you the basics of Financial Accounting. You can take this course without any business background. Very useful.

By Alessandro o

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Sep 2, 2019

Very interesting. A bit boring the part of writing the books but I really liked the cash flow part and the ratio. Gets very interesting.

By Khoi-Nguyen N

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Aug 8, 2020

The corny joke grow on you. And I agree with other students, the ratio parts were glossed over too fast, and need some expanding upon.

By Abhinav K

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Aug 19, 2019

The pace of the course increases towards the last week and makes hard to keep up. As a whole it was a wonderful course, learnt a lot.

By Michael H

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Jan 2, 2016

Excellent course. Would be really good if there was a paid for additional level beyond the More Introduction to Financial Accounting.

By Derek D

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Sep 26, 2017

Great professor- Brian is able to explain difficult concepts very clearly. Watching the videos and reviewing the slides are a must.

By Josphat N K

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Sep 27, 2018

It was a great challenge but has helped me understand importact concepts in financial accounting. Thank you so much for the course

By Mohammed H I

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Dec 2, 2015

Really great COURSE

With an explanation of a great master and a graded approach from easy to difficult and the existence of duties

By Dan B

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Jun 11, 2017

Videos were great and helpful, especially with the questions in between. The forums are dated and feedback seems to be missing.

By Alfredo M

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Sep 1, 2017

Very good course to refresh concepts, a bit hard for total beginners. All the concepts very well explained and good dynamics.

By 陈嘉育

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Feb 15, 2016

The latter part offers terrific demonstration on cash flows and ratio analysis. But the former part is kinda boring. Keep on!

By Jade C

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May 21, 2023

Great course and goes very in-depth. Just needs some updating for 2023 as most of the content was dated as far back as 2015.

By Kamalpreet S

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Sep 9, 2023

Course was great,I came to know about Balance Sheet,Cash flows and various new concepts like Depreciation and Salvage value

By Adriana G

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Jun 28, 2018

very complete information, and resources. the professor is very enthciastic, makes questions one as a student would have.

By Fiorella M

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Jul 10, 2016

too many (mark all that apply) questions. Liked the professor's sense of humor it brought a lightness to a heavy subject.