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Introduction to Financial Accounting
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- 4 séquences
- Niveau Introductif
- Débute le 13 octobre 2019
- Clôture le 16 novembre 2019
Détails du cours
Déroulé
- The accounting cycle: translating companies’ operations and decisions into numbers;
- Understanding accounting as the language of business: users of accounting information and its different purposes;
- The role of accounting equation in ensuring recording integrity and keeping track of the transactions;
- The role of accruals in making sense of financial accounting information;
- The package of Financial Statements: balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement;
- Debunking myths about accounting as a fact: the role of valuation, assumptions and forecasts;
- Reading and interpreting financial statements with a ‘sceptical’ eye.
Prérequis
The course is designed for those who have already completed an introductory course in financial accounting and need to refresh their understanding. It will suit those looking to take an intermediate or advanced financial accounting course in the future, dealing with business groups, M&A, and consolidation.
Intervenants
Amedeo Pugliese
I teach introduction to financial accounting courses since 2007 and I enjoy it thoroughly. Beyond teaching, my research interests span across company disclosure and corporate governance.
Anna Alexander
I teach financial accounting both at the introductory and more advanced level. Currently, my research interests revolve around different topics: from corporate tax avoidance to criminal firms.
Éditeur
The University of Padova is one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious seats of learning; it is a multi-disciplinary university that aims to provide its students with both professional training and a solid cultural background. A qualification from the University of Padova is a symbol of having achieved an ambitious objective, one that is recognised and coveted by both students and employers alike.
Courses at the University of Padova are constantly updated in order to meet the ever-changing needs of the labour market. Its Healthcare degrees, for instance, cover a wide range of new courses such as Pediatric Nursing (Medical School), or Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (Psychology). Engineering degree programmes are available in the fields of Civil, Architectural, Environmental, Industrial and Information Engineering.
Plateforme
FutureLearn est une plate-forme d'apprentissage proposant des formations en ligne ouvertes à tous (MOOC)
Fondée en Décembre 2012, la société est entièrement détenue par l'Open University à Milton Keynes, en Angleterre.
Elle est la 1ère plateforme offrant des MOOC au Royaume-Uni, avec à son actif plus d'une cinquantaine d'universités partenaires provenant du Royaume Uni mais aussi du reste du monde.
FutureLearn se différencie également par des partenariats avec des entités non-universitaires comme le British Museum, le British Council, la British Library et la national Film and Television School.
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