Informações principais
Sobre o conteúdo
Whether you are starting your own business or supplementing your understanding of accounting, this business course will help you understand accounting basics and give you meaningful financial tools to understand business.
Understanding the four basic financial statements, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Statement of Retained Earnings, and Statement of Cash Flows, is key to evaluating companies for your investment decisions. But this business course goes beyond just understanding these financial statements. Business Accounting Basics takes you through the building blocks and accounting cycles that create each statement. In addition, this course will give you the basic tools to project profitability and break your costs down to help analyze any company.
This course is built to fit the needs of everyone, including those who have a 401k, other retirement plans or want to invest in different companies.
Programa de estudos
- Necessary accounting terminology and concepts
- The basics of the four financial statements
- The building blocks of financial accounting
- The different accounting cycles in a business break-even analysis, target profit analysis, and degree of operating leverage
Instrutores
Kimberly Fatten
Certified Public Accountant
Professor - Purdue University
Kimberly Fatten is a Certified Public Accountant with over 20 years of industry experience in manufacturing, construction, insurance, and education. She has a BS in Accounting from Indiana State University, an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business (Indianapolis, IN) and hopes to soon have her PhD in higher education / student affairs from Indiana University. She currently teaches financial accounting and income taxation at Purdue University, where she will serve as the Volunteer Income Taxation Assistance Coordinator.
Criador do conteúdo
A Universidade de Purdue é uma universidade pública localizada em West Lafayette, no condado de Tippecanoe, Indiana, EUA.
Foi fundada em 6 de maio de 1869 e em 2012 tinha mais de 39 000 estudantes. É conhecida como o "Berço dos Astronautas" por ter formado vinte e dois futuros astronautas, incluindo Neil Armstrong e Eugene Cernan. Muitos dos CEOs das 500 empresas da Forbes também se formaram na Universidade de Purdue.
Plataforma
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.
