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About the Course

In this course, you will learn the foundations of financial accounting information. You will start your journey with a general overview of what financial accounting information is and the main financial statements. You will then learn how to code financial transactions in financial accounting language. In the meantime, you will learn about the most important concept in contemporary financial accounting: accrual accounting. You will then critically analyze how firms recognize revenues. Finally, you will finish the course with an analysis of accounting for short-term assets, where you will go into detail on how firms account for accounts receivable and inventories. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: • Understand the main financial statements and the financial information • Write a financial transaction in financial accounting language and understand how this impacts the main financial statements • Understand how accrual accounting and fundamental accounting concepts work • Understand revenue recognition principles and how they impact the main financial statements • Account for accounts receivable and inventories. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and go to onlinemba.illinois.edu....

Top reviews

YP

Jun 7, 2020

The modules were extremely informative and nothing less to say, Oktay sir's presentations were very easy to understand even for a person like me who has no prior knowledge about Financial Accounting.

AB

Sep 24, 2017

LOVED THE COURSE. THANKS TO COURSERA SO THAT THEY GRANT ME SCHOLARSHIP. WITHOUT THIS IT WOULD NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO PERUSE THESE GLOBAL LEVEL COURSES AS I CANT AFFORD THIS. THANK YOU PROFESSOR.

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By Ragini S

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Jun 18, 2020

nice to learn accounting concepts in realistic manner

By David W

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May 5, 2020

Professional production and very effective materials.

By Jesus A M S

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Mar 14, 2020

muy bueno muchas herramientas que te ayudan a mejorar

By Romain S

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Jun 10, 2019

Excellent to learn about the UK-US accounting Methods

By Cornelia B

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Jun 13, 2018

Excellent. Really got me thinking. Thanks Prof Urcan.

By Laures G

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Oct 27, 2022

very good i learn a lot thank you so much professor

By Farid N

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Dec 20, 2020

This course is very undestanble. Thanks for Mr Urcan

By ENEBELI B E

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Jul 30, 2020

It has opened my eyes to a lot of things. Thank you.

By Liliana V

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Jul 24, 2020

i really like it! the way it was explain, and showed

By Janice A M

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May 26, 2020

Thanks! It such a nice experience learning in here.

By Manoj P

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Aug 5, 2019

Great course that I took as part of my iMBA program.

By Gerrit K

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Aug 12, 2016

This course really offers an accessible introduction

By Sakshi b 2

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Mar 8, 2021

It was a great course .got to learn many new things

By Meenakshi S

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Sep 26, 2020

The content was brief and the explanation was great

By Pranav S C

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May 30, 2020

The cases are a great value-addition to the course!

By Sanjana C

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Apr 1, 2020

It was very detailed and helpful. Thank you so much

By Diego P

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Nov 3, 2017

Very interesting for starting in finance accounting

By Luis R y V

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Nov 19, 2016

Nice course. Very well organized and easy to follow

By Gaurav k

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Jul 26, 2020

A must-do course for all the beginners in finance.

By Alfredo R

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May 31, 2020

Really useful and well taught training. Thanks :-)

By Deleted A

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May 12, 2023

it's been very challenging but we pulled through.

By John W

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Mar 4, 2023

Thank you so much for the great course Professor!

By Saiprakash R

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Jun 30, 2020

Solid foundation and lovely videos from the Prof.

By Christopher G

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Feb 6, 2020

Excellent teacher explaining a difficult subject.

By Namrata J

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Dec 27, 2018

Very good material for spontaneous understanding.