In this course, you will explore advanced topics in financial accounting. You will start your journey with accounting for assets with more than a 1-year life. You will learn in detail how firms account for fixed assets. You will then move on to the financing of assets and discuss accounting for liabilities. The course will continue with an in-depth exploration of shareholders’ equity. Finally, you will critically evaluate the preparation, components, and analysis of the cash flows statement.
Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics
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Financial Accounting: Advanced Topics
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Instructor: Oktay Urcan
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to account for fixed assets
understand accounting for liabilities
evaluate shareholders’ equity section of a balance sheet, and
understand preparation and information provided by cash flows statement.
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There are 5 modules in this course
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Long-term assets, assets that can be converted into cash in a time period of more than 1 year, constitute a large portion of a balance sheet for a lot of public companies. Understanding accounting for long-term assets will help you uncover how these accounts change over time, their valuation, and their usefulness in managerial decision making.
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7 videos5 readings7 quizzes
One of the major sources of financing for many firms is liabilities. Firms routinely finance their operations through various liabilities, including accounts payable, bank loans, and bonds. Accounting for liabilities will help you understand how liabilities are created, how they are valued, and how they inform a firm’s liquidity position.
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7 videos4 readings5 quizzes1 assignment
One of the major sources of financing for many firms is contributions from shareholders. The shareholders’ equity section of a balance sheet shows details of the investments of shareholders. Accounting for shareholders’ equity will help you understand the amount of shareholder investment, the number of shares issued in return by the firm for shareholders, the amount of earnings earned by the firm but not distributed to shareholders, and information about the amount of shares repurchased by the firm from the stock market.
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One of the major financial statements is cash flows statement. This statement describes in detail how cash changes for a firm over a certain period. The cash flows statement provides valuable information about the liquidity position of a firm, the cash consequences of managerial operating and investing decisions, as well as the earnings quality of a firm.
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