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Then attempt the interactive problems in resources
An Interactive video on understanding financial statements
In previous sections, I illustrated the income statement, statement of retained earnings and balance sheet. These statements are the end products of the financial accounting process.
The raw data of accounting are the business transactions.
You learned how to record transactions as increases or decreases in the assets, liabilities, and stockholders' equity items of the accounting equation. This procedure showed you how various transactions affected the accounting equation.
An account is a part of the accounting system used to classify and summarize the increases, decreases, and balances of each asset, liability, stockholders' equity item, dividend, revenue, and expense.
To illustrate recording the increases and decreases in an account, texts use the T-account, which looks like a capital letter T. The name of the account, such as Cash, appears across the top of the T. We record increases on one side of the vertical line of the T and decreases on the other side.
This course is designed to prepare you for the Managerial Accounting in the Masters of Business Administration program. All business students have to take an introductory financial accounting course for one simple reason - accounting is the language of business. The terms used by business people such as capital, equity, assets, liabilities, revenue, net income etc. are all terms you will become very familiar upon completion of this course.
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"Lecture is clear and concise..... so far so good." Michael Morris
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"The content is clear and well organised. The topics are very well explained. Your effort is really appreciated professor." Haya Al Dhahari
"After reading various MBA books and being interested in the accounting sections but feeling frustrated when I never seemed to fully understand it. I am less than halfway through this course and things are finally starting to 'click'." Andy Turner
Learn and Master the Financial Accounting Process. Part 1 of this course.
Understand that accounting is the language of business.
Know business terminology (biz speak).
Understand the difference between a corporation and a single proprietorship.
Know the three forms of business - service company, merchandise company and a manufacturer.
Understand an Income Statement and how to prepare one.
Understand a Balance Sheet and how to prepare one.
Know how to analyse and record business transactions
Learn how to use debits and credits to record business transactions.
Know how to use the accounting journal and ledger,
Complete a set of accounting records for a service business using excel spreadsheets.
Learn and Master how to Read Financial Statements - Part 2 of this course.
Understand how to read the cash flow statement.
Learn how to perform horizontal analysis on the Balance Sheet.
Learn how to perform Vertical analysis on the Income Statement.
Know how to analyse whether a company is liquid..
Know how to analyse whether a company is solvent.
Know how to analyze a company's profitability.
This course is unique in that it contains an excel project on a set of accounting records