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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 6, 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 23, 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 Mohamad J M

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Sep 26, 2017

nice and easy to follow , 4 stars just for the instructor's hard accent

By Jeet K S

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Aug 11, 2019

Good Explanation of concepts with effective and descriptive examples.

By Ibrahim H

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Oct 3, 2017

The instructor's accent wasn't easy to understand in some few points.

By Sayyed D A S H

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Apr 24, 2021

it is a good course for understanding the basic accounting concept.

By Alaa E A H A

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Jun 3, 2017

I prefer If the double entry system used to list the transactions

By DANISH A

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Sep 23, 2016

This is amazing course to clear your basic concept... Like it

By Indira G

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Mar 1, 2021

This course was very informative with enough course materials

By abdulah k

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Oct 5, 2018

I am a cma candidate iam a self-taught the matrial were super

By Ilham

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Apr 8, 2020

lecturer could explain in detail ,because this is foundation

By Nazneen M

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Apr 15, 2021

needs little more detail about revenue recognition though

By Pravan O

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Mar 22, 2020

Very well taught; concise, clear and understandable.

By Kalvis P

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Jul 16, 2019

Very nice, talking about the things I didn`t knew.

By Silué S F

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Jul 27, 2020

De bon cours avec une facilité d'apprentissage.

By Murali D

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Oct 30, 2016

Good foundation class for financial accounting.

By Digvijay G (

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Apr 12, 2023

Good course for gaining accounting knowledge.

By kirti R

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Jul 1, 2022

Very well explain all the things of accounts.

By Shilpi S

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Jun 2, 2020

LIFO, FIFO and weighted average is not clear.

By Haoming L

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Jan 18, 2020

Good. But the lecturer has very heavy accent.

By NISHANTH S

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Feb 11, 2021

A Very good course for financial accounting

By Rafiq A

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Jun 24, 2019

Very good course and very good explanation.

By Sara L G S

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Oct 24, 2024

Exelente 👍 Muchas gracias por el curso.

By Zainan V Z

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Mar 25, 2017

Brief and clear, very easy to understand

By Niangran E M

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Sep 14, 2020

Très beau cours ! Complet et précis ..

By Alberto S

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Nov 18, 2018

Overall very clear and well organized.

By Anurag G

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Jul 20, 2020

Beautiful course. Crisp and accurate!