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Introduction to Accounting
- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
- Understand who in a company uses financial statements and for what purpose
- Recognise what counts as good financial information and what lies behind it
- Evaluate a business’s liquidity, solvency and inventory management
- Basic understanding of the key principles of financial accounting
- How to analyze financial statements to make better business decisions
- The structure and purpose of Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements
Prerequisite
- Basic mathematics concepts
- Candidates interested in pursuing the MicroMasters program in Business Fundamentals are advised to complete and before undertaking this course
Instructors
Jeff Kroeker
Lecturer, Accounting and Information Systems Division
UBC Sauder School of Business
Editor
The University of British Columbia was founded in Vancouver in 1908. The College of British Columbia is one of the most prestigious universities in North America, and ranks among the top universities in the world. UBC has more than 61,000 students, spread over the historic Vancouver campus (1908) and the Okanagan campus (2005), and an annual budget of 2.3 billion dollars.
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