Financial Accounting

Financial Accounting

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  • 12 Sequences
  • Advanced Level
  • Starts on April 4, 2023
  • Ends on June 25, 2023

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Syllabus

The course is organized as four parts:

A. Introduction; Assets

Week 1: Accrual Accounting,

Week 2: Revenue Recognition; Receivables

Week 3: Inventory; Property, Plant, and Equipment

Week 4: Intangible Assets; Income vs. Cash Flows

Module 5: Acquisitions; Finance Investments

B. Financial Statement Analysis (FSA)

Week 6.1: Introductory FSA

C. Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity

Week 6.2: Income Taxes

Week 7: Long-Term Debt; Leases

Week 8: Stockholders’ Equity and Earnings per Share

Week 9: Accounting for Banks

E. Review; Accounting for Valuation

Week 10: Tesla case

We base this course on many years of courses we and our MIT colleagues have taught in previous years to MIT graduate students.

Prerequisite

  • Probability and Statistics (undergraduate)
  • Calculus (undergraduate)
  • Linear algebra (undergraduate)

Instructors

John Core
Nanyang Technological University Professor and a Professor of Accounting, Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Egor Matveyev
Executive Director of MicroMasters Program in Finance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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