Les infos clés
En résumé
Accounting is the language of business. It is difficult to understand business without knowing some accounting. Knowing accounting will help learners better understand and contribute to their own companies and better understand business around them. This course also helps students use the financial statements to gather inputs to valuation models and for corporate finance decisions.
Financial Accounting is part of the MicroMasters® Program in Finance. It provides a rigorous introduction to the principles of financial accounting. We focus on the preparation and analysis of financial statements, and on why financial statements take the form they do. We cover the basic structure of financial reports and the process of recording transactions. We will also learn how investors, creditors, and other users analyze financial statements to assess corporate performance. The course focuses on using the financial statements to gather inputs to valuation models and for corporate finance decisions.
This course offers general managers, financial analysts, financial advisors, quantitative researchers, asset managers, risk managers, quantitative developers working in financial services, professionals servicing the financial industry the tools to succeed. Undergraduate and graduate students looking to enter business in general or finance in particular would also benefit greatly from this valuable course.
- Understand accounting terms
- Understand how financial statements are constructed
- Ability to read financial statements
- Gather inputs to valuation models and for corporate finance decisions
Les prérequis
- Probability and Statistics (undergraduate)
- Calculus (undergraduate)
- Linear algebra (undergraduate)
Le programme
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.
Les intervenants
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
Le concepteur
Le Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), en français Institut de technologie du Massachusetts, est un institut de recherche américain et une université, spécialisé dans les domaines de la science et de la technologie. Situé à Cambridge, dans l'État du Massachusetts, à proximité immédiate de Boston, au nord-est des États-Unis, le MIT est souvent considéré comme une des meilleures universités mondiales.
Il édite la Technology Review, une revue scientifique consacrée aux sciences de l'ingénieur et à l'innovation.
La plateforme
EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.
EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.
Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.
