Les infos clés
En résumé
This MOOC identifies and explores a number of challenges to the finance professional arising from the ever changing business environment. Increasingly, financial decisions must take account of strategic consequences. The first module, Exploring Strategic Position, Choice and Action helps in doing that – setting a strategic context for planning for, monitoring and controlling projects and activities. An on-going set of challenges is found in the evolution of International Reporting Standards. The second module focuses on some recent changes in Standards, identifying the drivers for changes, and examining evolution in controversial areas such as leasing and goodwill. The third and final module, Corporate Governance, examines issues which are causing people to re-assess the nature, purpose and scope of corporate governance, and challenges to making governance function effectively. Key issues here are the move to include a broader range of stakeholders, the perennial challenge of agency theory issues, shareholder activism, changing Board structures, and challenges to internal control to better manage risk. This MOOC will be right for you if you are interested in engaging with some of the challenges facing finance professionals, even if you are not one yourself. If you are thinking about returning to study this will provide a taster of academic endeavours through reading articles, critiquing ideas, and blending theory with reality.
Le programme
WEEK 1
Welcome to Keeping up with Change: Issues for the Finance Professional
WEEK 2
Exploring Strategic Position, Choice and Action (Part 2)
WEEK 3
International Reporting Standards (Part 1)
WEEK 4
International Reporting Standards (Part 2)
WEEK 5
Corporate Governance (Part 1)
WEEK 6
Corporate Governance (Part 2)- Making Governance Work
Les intervenants
Dr Sarah Warnes
Teaching Fellow
School of Management, UCL
Dr Alan Parkinson
Deputy Director (Education), School of Management
UCL, University of London
Mr Suman Saha
Visiting Academic
UCL School of Management
Le concepteur
La plateforme
Coursera est une entreprise numérique proposant des formations en ligne ouverte à tous fondée par les professeurs d'informatique Andrew Ng et Daphne Koller de l'université Stanford, située à Mountain View, Californie.
Ce qui la différencie le plus des autres plateformes MOOC, c'est qu'elle travaille qu'avec les meilleures universités et organisations mondiales et diffuse leurs contenus sur le web.
Great course for those wanting to either refresh topics covered earlier in a career or even those who want to remind themselves what good quality learning and courses are all about.Thank you for making the course enjoyable, interactive and accessible to those of us who have full and busy lives.
The course is good and informative in terms of learning.There is a little problem in getting the assignments verified if there are no reviewers left behind.
Great course for those wanting to either refresh topics covered earlier in a career or even those who want to remind themselves what good quality learning and courses are all about.Thank you for making the course enjoyable, interactive and accessible to those of us who have full and busy lives.
Very interactive and stimulating course .Good materials to read and engaging exercise with great peer review participation .This is a must do course as it is well designed to wake up your creative process towards finance.
Its an exciting course. especially for those of us who took some time to get back into school. It is challenging enough to refresh ones memory to the basic and critical principles of Advanced Finance principles.
Excellent resource for getting up to speed with some of the challenges that the accountancy profession is faced with. I do however feel that this course and the accountancy profession as a whole needs to the consider the repercussions of rapid technological advancement and how these would impact the profession as a whole. The Accountants of tomorrow will need to be able to delegate the mundance daily tasks associated with financial accounting and bookkeeping etc. and be able to think and act more like business people. The course should also look into this aspect.
