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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....

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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 MOHAMMAD R S

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Sep 29, 2020

Good

By Tamara R

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Feb 25, 2024

I think the information provide is very good, however, it it not explained in an interesting way. It is difficult to understand what he is saying (by meaning and by pronunciation)

By Jose C H C

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Jan 2, 2021

No me ha gustado que he terminado el curso y no me han enviado el certificado del curso, aun cuando pague las mensualidades

By Talha B A

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Mar 14, 2024

Why is there free trial if a person can't get certificate completed within free trial?

By felipe r c

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Aug 22, 2024

no certifican al terminar el curso.

By Thomas S

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Aug 4, 2024

No certification provided

By Neeraj C S

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Sep 10, 2020

not nice