Financial Accounting for Corporations

Financial Accounting for Corporations

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  • 8 Sequences
  • Advanced Level
  • Starts on July 13, 2020
  • Ends on September 8, 2020

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Syllabus

Week 1: Overview of Financial Accounting, FASB 's Codification, FASB's Conceptual Framework, and a review of accounting principles
Learn how FASB's Conceptual Framework helps to inform the development of future GAAP, use the FASB Codification system to research accounting topics, and review accounting principles. Review accounting principles used to prepare the four required financial statements of publically held corporations.
Week 2: Income Statement and Statement of Comprehensive Income
Learn FASB's new revenue recognition rules. Further, learn to prepare an Income Statement and Statement of Comprehensive Income.
Week 3: Balance Sheet: Current Assets
The Balance Sheet is used to report assets, liabilities, and equities. Learn how corporate leaders measure and report current assets including cash, receivables, and inventory. Further, learn how companies collect or sell their receivables to pay for operating expenses.
Week 4: Fixed and Intangible Assets
Learn how accountants measure and report property, plant, and equipment; and intangible assets. Further, you will learn to compute deprecation and amortization for plant, equipment, and all relevant intangible assets. You will also learn how accountants assess intangible assets for impairment and consider implementing the optional fair value option.
Week 5: Balance Sheet: Liabilities and Equities
Learn how to account for current liabilities, contingencies, and equities. You will review and expand your understanding of time value of money concepts to value bonds and other long-term liabilities. You will also learn how to determine the equivalent of one's net worth for a corporation and how to compute earnings per share; a ratio investors use to compare alternative investments.
Week 6: Statement of Cash Flows
Learn how managers and investors use the statement of cash flows to make important decisions regarding the operational efficiencies of a company, its investments, and various financing opportunities. You will learn to prepare the Statement of Cash Flows using both the direct and indirect methods.
Week 7: Notes to Financial Statements and Accounting for Changes and Errors
Investors read the notes to financial statements to gain an in depth understanding of how a corporation applies accounting principles, calculates estimates, and other important issues that do not appear on the face of financial statements.You will learn how to correct errors in measuring and reporting of financial information.
Week 8: Final Exam

Prerequisite

To ​pursue a MicroMasters program certificate in Accounting and Financial Management, an undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university is required. If you are not pursuing a MicroMasters certification, Course 1: Financial Decision Making is highly recommended.

Instructors

Sharon L. Levin
Chair and Professor of Accounting and Financial Management
University of Maryland Global Campus

Galit Kushnier, M.S.
Instructor
University of Maryland Global Campus

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The University of Maryland is the state's flagship university and one of the nation's leading public research universities. A world leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is home to more than 37,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff, and 250 academic programs. 

Its faculty includes three Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners, 47 members of national academies and a large number of Fulbright scholars. The institution has an operating budget of $1.8 billion, raises $500 million a year in external research funding and recently completed a $1 billion fundraising campaign.

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