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About the Course

Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization....

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YR

Jun 13, 2022

It is a great course for beginers like me to start to learn about accounting. The concepts are easy to understand, and the examples are very helpful for understanding. I like the virtual students btw.

MM

Feb 3, 2016

I took Brian Bushee's course and found him to be one of the BEST INSTRUCTORS I'VE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. If you've had trouble with accounting courses in the past, HE IS THE INSTRUCTOR FOR YOU!!!

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By Ahmed a

Dec 2, 2016

it's great course

By حبيبه م ح

Nov 6, 2020

It's very useful

By Mohamed E M

Sep 29, 2017

very nice course

By Peace C M A M T

Aug 19, 2024

Great Learning

By Yangyang Q

Aug 24, 2017

很不错的入门指导,老师很可爱

By Ahmed E I

Oct 20, 2016

great prof ^_^

By Dmitry V

Feb 22, 2016

Helpful, easy.

By Eric A

Jul 5, 2017

Enlightening!

By Gabriel R C

Sep 20, 2021

ótimo curso

By Robert B

Jun 26, 2020

difficult!!

By amey b

Jun 6, 2019

Good Course

By Martin S

Jun 26, 2018

Good info.

By mahmoud m

May 3, 2020

thank you

By Abhishek P

Aug 8, 2017

Superb !!

By imran

Nov 11, 2015

Its nice

By VIDUSHI M

Apr 5, 2019

great

By Amisha m

Oct 29, 2024

good

By PONNAGANTI S R P C

Jul 9, 2022

good

By 霍建

Jul 14, 2019

nice

By Vijay K S

Oct 26, 2022

I am not very excited about the course Introduction to Financial Accounting. Because there is no explanation of the

questions that I encounterd. In final exam few questions I feel needs an explanation but I was lost I didn't get calrifications. Few questions I guessede that's not not good to undersatns the bsic concepts. The questions were out of topics of the class. I feel that Pof. Brian Bushee didn't sincerely lectured this class. I compare this with the last class I took with Prof. Robert Sheelar of Yale University Introduction of Financial Markets. It was such a clarity in lectures and test that I didn't have much problems and I passed with disticntion. I was very much dissapointed. Vijay Sinha!

By Adya S

Jul 4, 2022

The Introduction to Financial Accounting course was particularly challenging.

Professor Bushee did explain concepts however utilised terminology that only experienced accountants would understand. The virtual students were quite distracting due to their non-student charctersitics.

The quizzes and exams were very hard and required detailed analysis of notes and I had to try each quiz at least 5 times to pass.

I would reccomend this course only for people who have a basic understanding of financial accounting but if you are looking to start to learn financial accounting, its best to look somewhere else.

By michele b

Dec 29, 2015

Although Professor Bushee is very good, the matter is not really entertaining, especially during the first two weeks of the course.

To actually learn and pass the exam it is not sufficient to watch the videos, some work should be done at home.

To improve the course I would suggest to introduce more homework with written solutions or to lengthen the parts of the videos where exercises and examples are shown. Also, in these parts, the theoretical concepts explained in the previous videos could be reminded more often.

By Tian L

Jan 22, 2021

Too less homework. I didn't feel totally understand the course. What I did is practicing in the quizzes. But before the quizzes, I want to get 1 to 2 "traditional examples" to fully understand the formula, the accounting system, and the logic behind the calculation. Although there are some examples in the course videos, they are not hard enough compare to the quizzes' questions. Instead of learning in the quiz, I really prefer doing some similar practice before the quiz.

By Atli T

Aug 27, 2023

Good: very capable professor who explains the topic easily and is aware of questions people might have who are new to the subject. Gives practical examples and goes through accounting of actual companies.

Bad: rating system on the exams is brutal. and I am pretty sure some of the answers are incorrect. Indirect method in the operating section of the cashflow statement could be explained better.

By Varun R

Jan 25, 2021

Overall, this course gives a great overview of all the concepts necessary to understand the language of accounting. I appreciated how it dissected balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. However, I did feel that there could have been better preparation for the final exam. The quizzes and in-class exercises do not really reflect the types of questions on the final.